Hello ladies and gentlemen,

I am a beginner and clueless, can you help me? :)

We are looking to buy our first NAS for home office use in our own small business for two people. We want to use it on WIFI, cabling is difficult.

We don’t want to use the NAS for watching movies, running apps etc.

We need a central data store that we can access from two laptops, and this data store backs up automatically to an external HDD and the cloud.

We work 80% of the time with documents, pdf, excel, images, music files, but we also edit 5-10 full HD, sometimes 4k videos per month.

The videos are copied to the laptop with an SD card, edited there and then uploaded to the NAS. I suppose editing directly on the NAS would be slow.

Currently we have about 2.8 TB of data, in the next 3-4 years we will have 6-7 TB.

It is important that the NAS and HDD are both quiet. So basically we wanted to go for DS223 or DS224+ with 8 TB WD RED PLUS HDD.

However, I read that 8-12 TB is significantly noisier than 6 TB, so we considered DS423 or DS423+.

However, due to budget, we would only fit 1 6 TB HDD at first, 1 6 TB after 6 months, 1 6 TB after 6 months, etc. That’s the idea.

  1. In this case, should I set SHR, SHR-2 or RAID?

  2. Which combination will be quieter? DS223/DS224+ with 2 x 8 TB HDD or DS423/DS423+ with 4 x 6 HDD? WD RED PLUS. For me, the 2 bay NAS with 2 x 8 TB HDD would be enough, but if it’s loud, I prefer the 4 bay with 4x6 TB.

  3. Over WIFI (NAS in the same apartment as the laptop) what download and upload speeds can I expect? Right now I am downloading torrents at about 40 mb/sec. If I take it from pCloud or other cloud, 5-10-20 mb/sec. Will the NAS be faster?

  4. Given the usage described above, do we need the + version or is it unnecessary? I think it is unnecessary, but what do you think?

Thanks a lot, sorry if it got long or complicated!

Regards!

  • bobsim1@alien.topB
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    8 months ago

    If u go with a 2bay you should go with 10tb or more. You wont be able to expand. SHR-2 is not worth it in a 4bay imo. Shr is the way to go, its optimized for the NAS and for expanding later. Maybe check some prizes to see what makes sense.