I was originally looking into a large capacity external drive as part of my back up solution. Either an external disk or a 3.5" HDD to stick in an old drive caddy. This NAS cost less than a new Seagate Ironwolf 6TiB drive and is so much more fun. Whilst still working as part of my back up plan I will also be running it as a media server and for network storage.
After playing around with it for a few days I am very impressed and now wish I'd got hold of one years ago. It's been surprisingly easy to set up and is very easy to access via a web browser. The operating system is reasonably intuitive and doesn't appear bloated.
It's so good I will probably be retiring my old desktop which has been sitting in a cupboard for the past 10 years running as a headless home server.
I have not been around as long as some forum members, however it still surprises me when I reflect on advances in technology since my first PC - a used Compaq desktop from the late 90's with an AMD K6-2 processor running at 350MHz with 64MB RAM and a huge 6GB HDD!
Comparing the NAS to my first PC I have approximately 1000 times more storage space. The scary thing is I will fill a lot of the 6TiB NAS drive when I move everything I want to back up over to it.
I don't have time at the moment, however look forward to exploring iSCSI target support in the future - assuming it's supported on this model.
I love a used bargain and rarely buy any new equipment these days. It's also nice to have a little project to occupy my time.
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