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ReadyNas discontinued?
I love this product and have been looking for a second one (RN424), but none have been available for months. I understand the pandemic has reduced computer chips, etc. but now I see ReadyNAS isn't ev...
StephenB wrote:
Platypus69 wrote:I can highly recommend Synology, for all it's worth.
One concern with Synology is that their new NAS are locked to use their re-branded hard drives. I'm not a fan of that approach.
To be fair to Synology, as I understand it that policy only applies to their Rack-mount "Rackstation" line sold for enterprise use. But it is a troubling trend, I agree.
I have been looking at a lot of the options out there. The DS1819+/1821+ seem like a good option as long as I'm willing to move my Plex serving off the NAS. QNAP's security snafus as of late make me weary of their line, and I'm not as impressed with some of their hardware. I must admit Asustor's hardware is the most appealing right now, but I've heard mixed things about their software and their underlying system access.
For the DS1819+/DS1821+ I bought Seagate EXOS 14TB HDDs for one and IronWolf Pro 16TB HDDs for the other. They seem to support a broad range of HDDs for their consumer/prosumer NASes. And update the HCL fairly often. Remember the delays we had with Netgear waiting for them to put HDDs that had been out for years on their HCL.
Anyway...
The other cool thing is that DSM 7.0 has the ability to download a HDD database. From the GUI:
Drive Database
The drive database contains information on drive temperatures, SMART attributes, the compatibility list, and forware updates of Synology drives. They system updates the database automatically and periodically. However, you can also click Updae Now to immediately update the databsae, or click Manual Update to update it by uploading the Offiline Update pack.
As I said I have been impressed so far with such functionality. I assume i will get warning if one disk's telemetry such as temperature or bad sector count rises past some outlier average calculated base on collected telemetry. That is potentially better than SMART, which is antiquated.... At the end of the day it is another useful "signal".
As I said I don't want Plex/transcoding on the NAS, do it at the TV layer/XBox layer for me. Why chew up the CPU on the NAS when a cheap modern TV has dedicated hardware with native HEVC support, etc. You end up paying for such functionality on the NAS and that is why I did not go with QNAP, where some models had HDMI ports, remote controls, etc. As was said, the hardware was underwhelming for the price.
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