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Instead of a 4-bay NAS, I would have gone with a 6-bay.
You only realize just how expensive it is to expand on your space when you have to REPLACE HDDs rather than simply adding more.
Yes, but you'll be wishing you had 8 bays when you fill the 6 :) At some point, you have to replace disks to really increase space, don't make your RAID volumes consist of more disks than you can reasonably afford to replace at one time. Second lesson, if you have spare drive bays, use them as part of your upgrade strategy, not as additional storage. Started this last iteration with 6x3tb drives in a raidz2 vdev, opted to add another 6x3tb vdev instead of biting the bullet and upgrading. To add more storage I need to replace 6 drives. Instead I built a second NAS to backup the primary and am pulling all 12 disks and dropping back to 6. If/when I increase storage, I'll drop 6 new ones in and MOVE the data instead of adding capacity.
This. And build my own instead of going with synology.
I ended up getting a Raspberry Pi 4 and the Argon Eon case. It all goes through one USB 3 channel however, and for some reason I am stuck at 10MB/s transfer speeds even though USB 3 standards support much more.
I would like a SBC which supports SATA. I suppose there is a the Raspberry Pi CM4, although there's no cases for it to support multiple drives
I’ve got the argon one v2 with a m2 drive. Works well haven’t tested speeds. Not used as a nas though.
I've been pretty happy with my Synology NAS. Literally trouble-free, worry-free, and "just works". My only real complaint is them getting rid of features in the Photos app, which is why I'm still on their old OS.
But I'd probably build a second NAS on the cheap, just to see how it compares :)
What OS would you go with if you had to build one?
I’m happy with synology too for the most part. But I like a bit more flexibility I’d probably build one and use truenas or unraid.