but it seems they now force us to use their own, too expensive, HDD
They reversed that policy (also you could get around it quite easily).
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But everyone believes they'll wait and try again.
They reversed that policy
For now.
@remon@ani.social Didn't know. In that case I might go with something from them, unless someone got a better recommendation.
As for getting around it, might have been easy for you, but I'm not so sure whether it would have been for my sister and me.
Roll your own with a Raspberry Pi.
Depending on the Pi, you will be limited to USB2 speeds.
@Limerance@piefed.social @Naich@lemmings.world Even with USB3, might be a bit short in speed. Don't need to go to NVMe speed, but I think modern SATA HDD would be nice. Also, it will be put on a local network.
I get 120MB/s via local network sharing USB3 SATA HDD through a RPi 4b 4GB!
TerraMaster F4-423 and then replace the internal USB drive with a fresh one and install OpenMediaVault or TrueNas or whatever.
Very happy with my UGREEN. Though it's my first so I don't have anything to compare it to
Careful with the ugreen: I found if you get the cheaper option, you can't hot-swap a disk anymore. They don't make that really clear.
I got a Synology 2 bay for saving my memories of sailing the high seas. I
t has been fine thus far.
CWWK pocket NAS
@artyom@piefed.social It's to stock RAW video footage (and photos) + edited video, don't need to have SSD speed to it. (SATA speed will be plenty enough.) That said, thanks for the info, I didn't know CWWK Pocket NAS existed.
Well they sell a N150 "development board" as well that has dual SATA. You can 3D print a case if necessary.
I got an older version of one of these and put some opensource software on it. I did proxmox cause it runs a bunch of stuff, not just nas stuff.
I bought an Asustor a few years ago. I would recommend it.
I went with qnap. Synology, I think, can't be trusted to stick with that policy reversal.
Nas - Represent is a great start.