I need a NAS for my home office - my girlfriend does a lot o

>>59287527
Board rules, /thread.

>>59287527
Don't mix streaming/transcoding with your data store. Get a dedicated device for streaming and a dedicated NAS for data storage.

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>>59287940
>product discussion is tech support

/g/ wouldn't exist. Fuck off.

>>59287527

build one yourself.

>>59287974
Why not? If the resources are available without additional overhead (since the CPU will be underutilized anyway), why not use it?

>>59287986
I'm not against that, but are there any good resources for that? I essentially need to find a Pi with SATA and an enclosure that lets me easily swap bays.

>>59287527
>my girlfriend does a lot of photo editing
horses?
nude selfies?
nude selfies getting fucked by horse dildos?
nudes of her and friends getting fucked by random african american entrepaneur?

>has to swap data between computers
that's not what a NAS is for. share folders in the network.

>>59288010

a pi wont cut it. no gigabit. no raid over sata.

buy a fan-less mini itx board with cpu onboard and enough sata ports for your needs. i recommended raid-1 for beginners. don't forget to do regular backups to cold storage.

>>59288056
All of the above, along with some professional photography and modeling.

Of horses and dildos, of course.

>>59288067
It will also be for long-term archival/safekeeping.

>>59288089
I was considering the new Mini-STX boads that recently launched, they're 5" x 5" and aside from no PCIE support are otherwise full performance boards.

>>59288067

no, but the point of a nas is that you don't have to swap data anymore since it will always be on your nas (and backups).

Here's a good case which I'm using myself:
U-NAS NSC-400

>>59288126
shared folders do the same. NAS are for storage, not transfer.

Get an APU, undervolt it, and build it yourself.

You'll be happier.

>>59288165
Might as well just transfer data on disk and let them sit unplugged, why keep a NAS powered on if not to use it?

>>59288118

do remember that without pcie you won't be able to expand your number of high speed sata ports and a lot of small mobos only have 2. this is not a problem on raid-1 but of you expect to expand your pool of disk in the future that can be a nuisance (i currently consider to go from raid-1 to 10 but can't without getting another board)

>>59288165

i'm with you but my point kinda was that with a nas you can stop transfering between PCs and start storing on a nas.

>>59288089
>buy a fan-less mini itx board with cpu onboard
>expecting any good RAID performance

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>>59288056
excellent, for all your horse cock needs I think she would be fine using one of the synology models. Synology DS716+II sounds fine, it will certainly be better than the WD you posted. Avoid the raspberry pi it will shit itself because of the whole network/usb thing.

>It will also be for long-term archival/safekeeping.

best you could do is use the synology or anything that lets you put two disks and you just go RAID 1. She will be able to use all her horsedildo picks for her pleasure but also if a drive craps itself you just go and get a new one and everything is fine and dandy. Problem with that setup is that you only have as much space as the size of the disks you are using. That means if you put 2 x 2TB drives, you only can use 2TB, the other drive is just a copy (for archival purposes).

>>59288236

my ad2550-itx has no problems what so ever to saturate my gigabit network.

>>59288118
You have some hardon for exotic and hard to work with form factors? Stop your special snowflake bs and get an itx board

>>59288341
I just like the small form factor. There's nothing generic that's smaller that isn't a specific product.

>>59288010
Bottlenecks and critical sections. No matter how beefy the box, there will always be instances where resource allocation doesn't happen how you wish it would, causing one or more tasks to take a backseat when you need them to work smoothly.

>>59287527
Nobody gives a shit about your dick pics. Just set up a networked drive you fucking moron.