I'd like to get a NAS to use at home as an additional backup destination for several home PCs, besides two cloud backup services I already use. No VMs, no media server, just a another place to archive my data (and Windows OS drives), ideally with snapshotting and ease of replicating (eventually) to a second NAS in another location. I currently have 12 TB raw capacity across several internal and external drives, of which I am using 6 TB, mostly photographs. Do I buy a pre-built Synology with btrfs or go the DIY route with ZFS? Would I benefit much from having more than 1 disk in the NAS, or would a single 12TB+ HDD be fine?
I'm looking at Synology DS218, DS220+, and DS418. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems QNAP's least expensive ZFS-capable NAS (via QuTS Hero) is TS-231P3-4G.
If I go DIY, TrueNAS Core or something else? On the hardware side, are there any good deals on recommended refurbished/decommissioned small towers/minis? If I don't use dedup, how much RAM is appropriate for ZFS? I have an unused 256 GB Samsung 860 Pro -- any value to this in a ZFS system?
Thanks very much.
I'm looking at Synology DS218, DS220+, and DS418. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems QNAP's least expensive ZFS-capable NAS (via QuTS Hero) is TS-231P3-4G.
If I go DIY, TrueNAS Core or something else? On the hardware side, are there any good deals on recommended refurbished/decommissioned small towers/minis? If I don't use dedup, how much RAM is appropriate for ZFS? I have an unused 256 GB Samsung 860 Pro -- any value to this in a ZFS system?
Thanks very much.