Saturday, August 22, 2020

Ask HN: Best NAS for home backup / media streaming?

I have been kicking around a NAS purchase for a couple of years now... but I really don't want to add extra complexity to my life. It just needs to work. Ideally it would serve multipurpose and maybe that is my issue, expecting too much.

Ideally it would run: 1) Cloud backup (Backblaze B2) 2) Plex media server (w/ Hardware acceleration) 3) PiHole 4) Unifi Controller

I believe I have narrowed it down to the Synology DS720+ or the Qnap 253be. However, it seems like this tech is still a little fragile. For example, the Synology requires some tweaking for hardware encoding to work due to a bad driver.

I can deal with a longer setup as long as the result is as bullet proof as my Unifi AC Pro access point (which has literally run for years without an outage or glitch).

Appreciate any advice... including other options that include just avoid it all together.


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