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What do you have, what do you recommend, and why?

Asking as I've got a lot of spare components lying around that I'm planning on turning into a NAS. If it doesn't work out I'll buy a pre-built enclosure and reuse the drives.

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[–] nickel@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

I have the Synology 923+. I went down a research rabbit hole that spanned far too long. First the DIY route, then the prebuilt. Then I dove really deep into the arguments with the 923+ about it having AMD instead of Intel, so it being bad for plex transcoding. All in all, I love it and have been super happy with it. I watch plex off of it just fine, but all of my devices are new. Some of the synology stuff has been a bit wonky with Docker, but otherwise it is working great and I'm very happy with my purchase. I havent needed to upgrade the RAM yet or get a cache drive, but I like that I can do upgrades in the future as I stuff more processes on there, as well as upgrade the drives (currently have 2) as I need more space.