NASes are pricey but provide a level of robustness that a beefy external hard drive or cloud storage just don’t provide. In a NAS you can configure drives in...
I jumped on the NAS bandwagon about 10yrs ago and it really didn’t take that long before I’d reached the limits of the CPU and RAM.
Last year I built an i5 system to replace it and it’s just better. Hardware and softwareb updates are just easier with a desktop. I can run my web server, torrent VM, DB, Plex and file sharing with resources to spare.
If you simply want a device to store/share files, get a NAS, but the second you want to do anything more, build a basic desktop.
I just use an HP Microserver gen 8 with upgraded cpu and ram. But yea, just a relatively cheap computer is all 98% of the people really need, as long as you can configure enough disks. NAS’es are way overpriced with shitty hardware.
Depends I guess. For me the biggest concern when I bought my Synology was simplicity of usage and idle power consumption which is much lower than I could get with one of the older computers I have lying around.
I jumped on the NAS bandwagon about 10yrs ago and it really didn’t take that long before I’d reached the limits of the CPU and RAM.
Last year I built an i5 system to replace it and it’s just better. Hardware and softwareb updates are just easier with a desktop. I can run my web server, torrent VM, DB, Plex and file sharing with resources to spare.
If you simply want a device to store/share files, get a NAS, but the second you want to do anything more, build a basic desktop.
Oh and it’s cheaper!
I just use an HP Microserver gen 8 with upgraded cpu and ram. But yea, just a relatively cheap computer is all 98% of the people really need, as long as you can configure enough disks. NAS’es are way overpriced with shitty hardware.
Depends I guess. For me the biggest concern when I bought my Synology was simplicity of usage and idle power consumption which is much lower than I could get with one of the older computers I have lying around.