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    Did you buy or make your NAS? ... are you able to use it as personal cloud storage (photos) of mobile phone ... are you also using the NAS as a bakcup / redundancy storage of CCTV data? ... what other uses for NAS is there? ... Thank you ...

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    The synoloogy OS have a lot of apps you can install for other uses. Most popular is plex server. Sa mga groups marami ang ginagawang storage ng mga Movies nila at naka share sa friends and family nila via Internet. Synology also have app for it to become messaging server, email server, photo backup server, music server.

    Regarding CCTV, I haven't researched on it since I don't need it yet. Pero Sa forum parang may nabasa ako na may subscription. Tapos per camera pa yata bayad. I'm not sure kung kailangan yung subscription or para lang yun maging cloud yung CCTV.

    I have 2 bay Synology NAS with 2 x 2tb harddisk. Bought the Synology for 16.5k and the 2 x 2tb seagate ironwolf harddisk for 10.5k total. Medyo tinipid ko yung harddisk kasi na overwhelmed ako sa price. Our 1st NAS na nasira sa blackout was only 1 harddisk and only worth 3k.

    Wrong move yung pag tinipid. Since mirrored yung 2 harddisk I only total of 2tb storage for a family of 4, which is very small. Important files lang talaga nandun. I bought a 2tb external harddisk and attached it to the USB of NAS and use it for movies and musics. Hindi sya mirrored pero ayos lang mawala yung mga Movies I can always get them from jolly Rogers pag na corrupt. Haha.

    We still have onedrive 1tb cloud backup for files and photos and also Google photos.

    Siguro kung uulitin I would have gone for 4 bay NAS and bought 2 harddisk, that way it's easy to add another 2. Maybe allocate 2tb per person, and more kung kasama movies and CCTV.

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    Find it weird that NVRs and DVRs aren't that easy to configure for external redundancy ... using NAS or any drive ... crooks are smarter these days ... first thing they look for is the CCTV server / drive ... which makes having a CCTV useless in these situations ...

    Wonder when NAS SSDs will become mainstream and priced good enough ... the devices would be smaller ...

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    Install a hidden parallel recorder to outsmart the crooks.

    For local storage, most Wifi Router comes with USB NAS port.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BratPAQ View Post
    The synoloogy OS have a lot of apps you can install for other uses. Most popular is plex server. Sa mga groups marami ang ginagawang storage ng mga Movies nila at naka share sa friends and family nila via Internet. Synology also have app for it to become messaging server, email server, photo backup server, music server.

    Regarding CCTV, I haven't researched on it since I don't need it yet. Pero Sa forum parang may nabasa ako na may subscription. Tapos per camera pa yata bayad. I'm not sure kung kailangan yung subscription or para lang yun maging cloud yung CCTV.

    I have 2 bay Synology NAS with 2 x 2tb harddisk. Bought the Synology for 16.5k and the 2 x 2tb seagate ironwolf harddisk for 10.5k total. Medyo tinipid ko yung harddisk kasi na overwhelmed ako sa price. Our 1st NAS na nasira sa blackout was only 1 harddisk and only worth 3k.

    Wrong move yung pag tinipid. Since mirrored yung 2 harddisk I only total of 2tb storage for a family of 4, which is very small. Important files lang talaga nandun. I bought a 2tb external harddisk and attached it to the USB of NAS and use it for movies and musics. Hindi sya mirrored pero ayos lang mawala yung mga Movies I can always get them from jolly Rogers pag na corrupt. Haha.

    We still have onedrive 1tb cloud backup for files and photos and also Google photos.

    Siguro kung uulitin I would have gone for 4 bay NAS and bought 2 harddisk, that way it's easy to add another 2. Maybe allocate 2tb per person, and more kung kasama movies and CCTV.
    salamat for sharing your experience.

    meron rin ako NAS pero yung simple lang na built in sa router, used for sharing files between computer & gadgets and media server lang para sa gadgets and TV, lahat within the home network lang.

    nagbabalak ako mag Synology rin eh and buti nabasa ko yung experience mo about the 2 bay variants, although balak ko 2x4TB pero maganda rin yung point mo about having extra bays to add more drives in the future. anyway, balak palang naman, di ko pa kasi majustify sa sarili ko at ok pa naman kasi yung gamit namin ngayon.

    for important files ngapala, i have offline drives. sinasalpak ko lang sa external drive bays kapag kelangan na. most of the time naka store lang sa drawer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 12vdc View Post
    Install a hidden parallel recorder to outsmart the crooks.

    The issue is ... how do you setup NVR / DVR for redundancy recording? ...

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    Not using a NAS, but I have a file server with 5x10TB HDDs and 1x480GB SSD.

    Needed a GPU for transcoding video (Jellyfin) so most off the shelf NAS was out.

    About time to upgrade na since my drives are 90% full. Going 16 or 18TB for the next set of drives.

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    I have a couple of own-built 'NAS'.

    Main one is a self-built PC based off an aging Xeon E3-1285 v4, runs Windows Server 2019 and hosts Plex Media Server, UniFi Controller, and a bunch of smaller programs and Hyper-V (for lab use). Along with storing all my Plex media, I use it to store personal pictures and videos that I've collected through the years. This server is also a backup target for all our PCs/laptops at home (using Veeam). Right now it has 8 spinning HDDs and an SSD (OS) and has a total capacity of around 44TB.

    My secondary NAS is an old HP Proliant Microserver running XPEnology (Synology-based OS). It has 4 HDDs and a total capacity of about 6TB. This is a backup target for the first one above, only protecting priceless and irreplaceable files.
    Last edited by oj88; November 24th, 2023 at 12:31 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walter View Post
    The issue is ... how do you setup NVR / DVR for redundancy recording? ...
    There are NVRs that can record to a NAS. To have that recording syncd somewhere else - maybe get a NAS with remote copy feature. If the NVR can use a DIY NAS (like an rpi or pc hosted) - then syncing to a remote storage can be done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oj88 View Post
    I have a couple of own-built 'NAS'.

    Main one is a self-built PC based off an aging Xeon E3-1285 v4, runs Windows Server 2019 and hosts Plex Media Server, UniFi Controller, and a bunch of smaller programs and Hyper-V (for lab use). Along with storing all my Plex media, I use it to store personal pictures and videos that I've collected through the years. This server is also a backup target for all our PCs/laptops at home (using Veeam). Right now it has 8 spinning HDDs and an SSD (OS) and has a total capacity of around 44TB.

    My secondary NAS is an old HP Proliant Microserver running XPEnology (Synology-based OS). It has 4 HDDs and a total capacity of about 6TB. This is a backup target for the first one above, only protecting priceless and irreplaceable files.
    I have an rpi enclosure with 2xHdd bays using s/w raid.
    How do you handle heat dissipation for that PC?

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