Home NAS for Data Storage & Security: 2TB RAID 1, WiFi Connectivity, Cloud Backup, Streaming Movies

I am getting more and more data that I need to somehow secure. Currently, I do it on external USB drives - I rip the same on 2 drives. I would have to buy another one and I'm wondering whether to invest in the US. Sufficient capacity for me is 2 TB (+ second disk in raid 1 I think). Only now like this:
I have a router on the ground floor, TV on the floor, computers all with wifi. Data - photos and videos - come mostly from cells that send it to the cloud (google disk and one drive). And now I have a vision:
-NAS on the TV on the cable - better movie transfer (?)
- connecting to the router via wifi to access NAS via the internet
-NAS downloads copies from the cloud itself, or the cells send copies, not to Google and MS, but to a "private" cloud at home

From what I see, few home NASes have wifi and must be connected to the router via Ethernet. If I do so, I will play movies on the TV for half the time. wireless will be smooth?

NASa can do itself. You don't have to buy Qnap or Synology.
I am on an old Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop. Openmediavault software.
As for wifi, it works with FullHD over a 300Mb network.

Due to the free space and time, I will probably aim for ready solutions after something. For now, I want to know if the device will meet the assumptions.

As a great solution for me, I have been using it for several years. A big mistake will be connecting the NAS disk via wifi to your home network. I recommend Zyxel (budget) Qnap or Synologi solutions as you wrote above.

revolt wrote:

I am getting more and more data that I need to somehow secure. Currently, I do it on external USB drives - I rip the same on 2 drives. I would have to buy another one and I'm wondering whether to invest in the US. Sufficient capacity for me is 2 TB (+ second disk in raid 1 I think). Only now like this:
I have a router on the ground floor, TV on the floor, computers all with wifi. Data - photos and videos - come mostly from cells that send it to the cloud (google disk and one drive). And now I have a vision:
-NAS on the TV on the cable - better movie transfer (?)
- connecting to the router via wifi to access NAS via the internet
-NAS downloads copies from the cloud itself, or the cells send copies, not to Google and MS, but to a "private" cloud at home

From what I see, few home NASes have wifi and must be connected to the router via Ethernet. If I do so, I will play movies on the TV for half the time. wireless will be smooth?

Whether WiFi will smoothly depend on this WiFi, whether the router is far away what neighbors broadcast and what files you will send with it. It can't be said in the dark. In my experience, such a NAS is a very useful device. I have 2 computers, network player, cells. Computers only have fast small SSDs per system. If you connect using a cable, I send 50-100MB to the NAS (mega bytes)
for a second. Copying a few GB movie takes a few seconds.
With WiFi and good winds you will send 10MB / s

I looked at different options and for multimedia reasons I liked the qnap TS251A - it has HDMI etc. Then it calmed down a bit and a friend told me he bought TS228 (as an FTP server). Half the price of TS251A and as I thought about it probably after the first configuration the device will be forgotten as long as it works. So I have 2 questions:
1) Assuming that the server will connect to the livebox and assuming that wifi will work with the transfer, will it be a problem for TS228 to play HD movie how do I connect it to the TV?
2) Do disks work in such a server all the time or just like "something I want from them"? As I wrote, it is enough for me to synchronize the cloud once a day, once a week I will upload some photos and maybe once a week I will start the slide show on the TV. I wonder whether to buy ordinary instead of US drives. As if there was a copy on the second one, there is no tragedy like it would fall after 3 years, for example. Does the NAS require any special disks and end of story?

Hello,

It makes sense! I'll tell you how it looked from my perspective.
I started with the simplest 1-bay server (Chinese), which I connected to the router with a cable - tragedy ... suspending / breaking connections, etc.
The next choice fell on Synology J110, which still works today! The performance was decent, but there was a problem with lack of disk space (1 bay), so I bought another Synology 115J server and QNAP 219 IIP, with time running out of space ... Synology DS213 AIR (Model with WIFI) came. There is no space again ... so I thought once I was alive and bought 8-bay Synology 1815+, I packed 6 2-3TB disks (WD Red, which I will mention later) and fire everything beautifully for about a year - no space, I bought another RED 'a, I put in and expand the matrix (SHR, something ala RAID5) and zonk! New WD RED 3TB drive fell ... I replaced with new HGST this time and during repair / extension bang the next WD RED fell (2TB 6000 hours worked) , so RAID5 and 2 disks = data loss, luckily it was copied post-sectoral. I recommend reading reviews about WD RED in foreign forums (not in stores).



Based on experience, I decided not to risk it and bought 4x4TB HGST to copy the most important data and I succeeded, I finally lost about 10-15% of the data. I also learned that maintaining an 8-disk server is expensive.

As for sending movies to TV, most TVs have a 100Mbp / s interface. 10 MB of real transfer is quite enough for almost everything (a problem may occur with some 4K movies), I recommend Plex / Kodi cool applications for transferring movies / music.

Ad 2) Buy discs from various manufacturers, because the series may be released, in my opinion I would not overpay for "NAS" from WD. NAS server (depending on the model, hibernates hard drives).

Ad 1) Here a lot depends on the device that will play this movie (in your case TV), if direct playback - it will not be a problem, if it needs to transcode, there may be problems if the device does not have an x264 codec, or another in which video is saved.

revolt wrote:

From what I see, few home NASes have wifi and must be connected to the router via Ethernet

They don't have to - Synology supports the wifi network (after buying TP Link Link dongle), Qnap will probably be similar (although they prefer Asus).

revolt wrote:

will the problem be for TS228 to play HD movie when I connect it to the TV?

There should be no problem - if you do not want anything more at the same time (RAM only 1 GB and the processor is not Intel).

revolt wrote:

Do disks work in such a server all the time or just like "I want something from them"?

You decide yourself by setting it in the device menu.
But drives most "fall" from changing power (that is, at startup).
In my Synology DS713 + / DX513 I don't put the drives to sleep.

revolt wrote:

I wonder whether to buy ordinary instead of US drives

Normal - although you may find there might be a problem with certain specific processes on the server.

I bought TS228 and 2 WD Red drives (there was a promotion and they were 10 PLN more expensive than usual). The installation process at home went medium - at first he did not want to "accept" the discs and squeaked his own way completely contrary to the description of beeps in the instructions , only after reboot did it initialize correctly. The configuration page could not see the NAS connected to the router and ended up searching with the Qnap finder program. After logging in, the system threw out application update errors that could not be updated despite stubborn attempts. After 2 days he downloaded the system update and it has calmed down for now. I missed some version of the instructions for the crowds - I just wanted to enable RAID 1, upload files and share some as DLNA. As for the second, it works on average, from what I understood is the multimedia folder where DLNA works "natively". As I shared another folder, the TV does not see subfolders in it. So far I have downloaded what I had (miserable transfer over Wi-Fi - about 5 MB / s) only one question - a volume is created on the entire disk. Maps individual folders to individual users. Is it supposed to be or should there be more volumes?

revolt wrote:

should there be more volumes?

Volume - is the surface of the disk.
You decide how to divide it in the NAS and how much space to assign to a given volume.

I always make one volume from the entire HDD - then I create folders and share what's needed.
If the disk "falls" mechanically, then the 20 volumes created will not change anything

Finally, I chose QNAT TS-228