Some systems will also allow you to hot swap HDD's - mine don't but the small cube factor with bays for 4 HDD's is more than sufficient plus boot and OS on an SSD.
SET UP GRSYNC TO SYNOLOGY LINUX MINT UPGRADE
I use 2 HP proliant microservers as NAS systems - the only time they ever get re-booted is if I need to upgrade hardware (rarely - only larger HDD's) or upgrade the OS for a new Linux kernel - that also rarely. If you use a Linux system with a GUI program GRSYNC is absolutely first class for that.
SET UP GRSYNC TO SYNOLOGY LINUX MINT INSTALL
My problem with things like dedicated NAS systems is that the OS is proprietary and not easy to install additional software whereas on standard Linux systems it's a breeze and easy to back up data from windows.ĭon't forget that even data stored on a NAS (of any type) should also be backed up regularly - if it's multi-media files then these won't change so you only need to do an original backup and then backup new files loaded to a NAS. If you want to try out Linux first why not install as a Virtual machine on Windows - VMware player or Vbox both free will run on Windows Home, or on Pro in addition you could use HYPER-V. While learning install the Linux system with a GUI - once you are happy with how the thing works simply re-install the OS without GUI - for simply using as NAS you don't need GUI. You could start with just 1 HDD.įor setup temporarily plug in mouse / keyboard/monitor but once up and running you can access the NAS via RDP from a windows laptop etc. Just populate the HDD's you want, use preferably an ethernet cable to router or wifi extender device and share the HDD's via SAMBA. Decent HDD's and network are the important factors. You don't even need a powerful CPU either - a lowly Intel Celeron often will work just fine and of course power consumption will be very small so ok to leave on 24 hrs a day. You don't need dedicated graphics, it can run headless (i.e you don't need to have a keyboard/mouse/monitor attached) and RAID is easily managed by software. Rather than go for a dedicated NAS system IMO a better (and usually cheaper) way is to use an old computer (or even one of those small HP micro cube servers e.g gen 10 ProLiant microserver) and run any sensible Linux distro on it.
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