Budget 71-90K Anyone who's into building NAS server?

shadowD said:
From my experience, If you can spare at least 4GB ram, and a few cores to your Synology, it should work fine. All features except for Synology's proprietary features like quick connect and other services that require authentication, will not work. Though, I've never had any pressing need for those, since there are alternatives available to those services. You can't get it working at all, unless you own the original serial number of the DSM model you're trying to install. Resource consumption depends on what you're trying to do with your NAS, running VMs inside it, Using CCTV cam feeds with AI recognition is definitely going to put a strain on the system, probably not even possible on a simple NUC. It should be fine for basic operations as long as your NUC's processor is capable enough and doesn't belong to celeron, atom or Pentium series, all low-powered processors are no-no. Too much overhead!
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Thanks that helps. Its NUC11 I5. Quad core. 64gb ram. 1tb samsung 970 NVME and 1TB mx500 sata
 
Party Monger said:
Thanks that helps. Its NUC11 I5. Quad core. 64gb ram. 1tb samsung 970 NVME and 1TB mx500 sata
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Oh, you're good to go! see if you can find a way to add HDDs, if there's any PCIe ports available that you can utilize, quick hack would be take off wifi module and use that port, and use LAN for internet.
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shadowD said:
Oh, you're good to go! see if you can find a way to add HDDs, if there's any PCIe ports available that you can utilize, quick hack would be take off wifi module and use that port, and use LAN for internet.
PS: If I helped you, It would help me build my rep if you give me a thumbs up!
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I guess adding disks will have to be done through docks. It does have an extra m2 port header I think. People use it to attach 10gbe cards.
 
Party Monger said:
I guess adding disks will have to be done through docks. It does have an extra m2 port header I think. People use it to attach 10gbe cards.
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yeah, either use a dock, though it would limit the speed, or you can look at m.2 to multi-port sata adapters, or m.2 to pcie adapter to sata adapter.
 
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