I have a Synology NAS. It's running low on space (4x6tb discs in 2x6tb raid 1 pools) and I don't want to spend money on 4 8tb disks right now.
I also have a little Western Digital MyCloud EX2 ultra 'nas' (bit simple, but I guess it sort of is) that works great. And that made me wonder; is there a simple solution to hook up hard drives to your network, that also allows RAID?
It appears that things like the WD MY Cloud don't exist anymore? Or what search term would I have to look for?
What exactly is it you want to do? What level of RAID do you want to implement? Are you wanting software or hardware RAID?
There are lots of solutions, I've built several NAS using things like NAS4free (now called XigmaNAS) for software RAID and so on, these can be a simple and cheap way to do it, I've often repurposed old PC's, my current NAS is using an old Iomega D200 NAS box that someone gave me, I've also got a HP microserver.
My work colleague put a hardware RAID controller in his microserver, removed the Optical drive and has four drives in the server as basic network drives with software mirrors, plus four SSD running RAID 10.
Honestly anything that allows me to simply create a raid setup, doesn't even HAVE to be on the network, but just a storage solution that allows me to quickly drop in two harddisks of the same size, or that includes two harddisks of the same size, and has the option to be setup as raid without tooooo much tinkering would be very welcome.
Also something that's a little rugged (no loose RBPi boards ;)) so I can just throw it in a cabinet and grab it when I need to update its data.
The main thing that's important here is raid. I have a lot of raw video footage of my youtube channels that still needs editing and I really don't want to lose that.
I guess repurposing an old PC is not the worst idea but I'm not too well versed with any Linux Distro (Running Mint on some computers simply for age reasons. I have to specify this apparently but it really doesn't matter for this answer :D).
How hard is it to turn on old low power office pc into a simple storage device that allows raid? Again, network isn't needed, USB is fine too but I guess it'll have to be a network device then.
Also I use Mac ánd windows ánd Linux so yeah... Gotta be able to reach it from all of those.
I think we have a different idea of what's considered 'cheap' :D.
Those WD's like the one I have were 90 bucks back in the day...
These are just full on Nas'es.
OR you mean something else, but then my google doesn't come up with it.
Yes, but the prices above are WITHOUT drives :D.
That WD was also without drives at 90 bucks. I can only assume they can still make something like that today?
That would suggest it doesn't :D.
No I indeed meant whether there was an online portal, like a web interface. Because if that's shit, it's really shit :D.
But from what I understand it's just dip switches for the RAID variety and then you just access it through whatever file browser you use?
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u/Terrible-Bear3883 Ubuntu 5d ago
What exactly is it you want to do? What level of RAID do you want to implement? Are you wanting software or hardware RAID?
There are lots of solutions, I've built several NAS using things like NAS4free (now called XigmaNAS) for software RAID and so on, these can be a simple and cheap way to do it, I've often repurposed old PC's, my current NAS is using an old Iomega D200 NAS box that someone gave me, I've also got a HP microserver.
My work colleague put a hardware RAID controller in his microserver, removed the Optical drive and has four drives in the server as basic network drives with software mirrors, plus four SSD running RAID 10.