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As you say you stream your videos. Now imagine getting that shiny new 4k video camera and start storing raw footage even after you have edited it. Rough ballbar

by rixrax 8y ago

As you say you stream your videos. Now imagine getting that shiny new 4k video camera and start storing raw footage even after you have edited it. Rough ballbark of 120Mbits/s ==> 15MB/s ==> 900MB/minute ==> 54GB/hour. This is why I keep adding more and more disks to my NAS.

objektif 8y ago
What type of NAS do you have? I am researching alternatives would appreciate your advice.
- twothumbsup 8y ago
  I have a Synology DS1618+ that I'm happy with. Just upgraded to it this year from a DS413j I'd been using since Jan 2012.
- ericd 8y ago
  Sibling comment is dead, but I second their recommendation of the Synology 1618+. It's been excellent in my experience. Even better when paired with a 10GbE NIC.
  - ipsum2 8y ago
    You can vouch for dead comments to un-dead them (bring it back to life?). I've done it for the sibling comment (by twothumbsup).
    - seattle_spring 8y ago
      Not everyone can do that. I can flag submissions but not comments, and I can't vouch for anything. No idea why. Maybe my posts get flagged more often than I realize.
    - ericd 8y ago
      Ah thanks, didn’t see a link, but I probably just wasn’t looking for it. Looks like they’re undead now :-)
  - objektif 8y ago
    Thank you very much.
- StillBored 8y ago
  On the build your on basis, there are a number of nice atom/xeon-D micro ATX motherboards with 10G Ethernet and 8+ sata/sas ports. Combined with something like the old silverstone DS380B (8 hotswap 3.5" drives, + couple internal) makes for a nice small form factor NAS. Why would you build your own? First, because the NAS vendors charge on a non-linear scale for drive slots and 10G Ethernet. The latter is basically a $50 additional charge on a motherboard, or a $100 add in card, but will easily add $500+ to a off the shelf NAS. Then there are the drives, today you might be happy with a two or three drive NAS, but in 5 years adding an additional 8-12TB drive (or three) will be just a hundred dollars or so, vs buying a whole new NAS. Then there is actually using it. Running a NAS a 400-600MB/sec is a far cry from using one at 80-120MB/sec which is where you will peak out with 1Gbit ethernet. This becomes really noticeable when your copying one of the 50GB 4k video's you record during the kids birthday, or just running a machine backup to the NAS. Frankly, at the end of the day, I find the flexibility to be the largest advantage. When I got tired of my old NAS's plex encoding perf, I swapped the motherboard for $300, without having to copy any data because i'm running a stock linux distro. Much of the old advantage on NAS's were the 3rd party marketplaces to get things like plex/crashplan/etc. Now those things are frequently found in docker containers, so a bit of setup and your application installs tend to stay continuously updated, rather than hoping your NAS vendors market place is remembered.
  - objektif 8y ago
    So helpful thanks much. One thing I am not familiar with is the quality of user interface for DIY NAS. For example are there applications to upload videos from your phone directly?

by rixrax 8y ago

objektif 8y ago

What type of NAS do you have? I am researching alternatives would appreciate your advice.

twothumbsup 8y ago
I have a Synology DS1618+ that I'm happy with. Just upgraded to it this year from a DS413j I'd been using since Jan 2012.
ericd 8y ago
Sibling comment is dead, but I second their recommendation of the Synology 1618+. It's been excellent in my experience. Even better when paired with a 10GbE NIC.
- ipsum2 8y ago
  You can vouch for dead comments to un-dead them (bring it back to life?). I've done it for the sibling comment (by twothumbsup).
  - seattle_spring 8y ago
    Not everyone can do that. I can flag submissions but not comments, and I can't vouch for anything. No idea why. Maybe my posts get flagged more often than I realize.
  - ericd 8y ago
    Ah thanks, didn’t see a link, but I probably just wasn’t looking for it. Looks like they’re undead now :-)
- objektif 8y ago
  Thank you very much.
StillBored 8y ago
On the build your on basis, there are a number of nice atom/xeon-D micro ATX motherboards with 10G Ethernet and 8+ sata/sas ports. Combined with something like the old silverstone DS380B (8 hotswap 3.5" drives, + couple internal) makes for a nice small form factor NAS. Why would you build your own? First, because the NAS vendors charge on a non-linear scale for drive slots and 10G Ethernet. The latter is basically a $50 additional charge on a motherboard, or a $100 add in card, but will easily add $500+ to a off the shelf NAS. Then there are the drives, today you might be happy with a two or three drive NAS, but in 5 years adding an additional 8-12TB drive (or three) will be just a hundred dollars or so, vs buying a whole new NAS. Then there is actually using it. Running a NAS a 400-600MB/sec is a far cry from using one at 80-120MB/sec which is where you will peak out with 1Gbit ethernet. This becomes really noticeable when your copying one of the 50GB 4k video's you record during the kids birthday, or just running a machine backup to the NAS. Frankly, at the end of the day, I find the flexibility to be the largest advantage. When I got tired of my old NAS's plex encoding perf, I swapped the motherboard for $300, without having to copy any data because i'm running a stock linux distro. Much of the old advantage on NAS's were the 3rd party marketplaces to get things like plex/crashplan/etc. Now those things are frequently found in docker containers, so a bit of setup and your application installs tend to stay continuously updated, rather than hoping your NAS vendors market place is remembered.
- objektif 8y ago
  So helpful thanks much. One thing I am not familiar with is the quality of user interface for DIY NAS. For example are there applications to upload videos from your phone directly?