thirtysomething / nas-information

A curated list about NAS hardware and software.

NAS-Information

A curated list about NAS hardware and software, tips and tricks. This list is licenced by the MIT license.

NAS manufacturer

These are manufacturer of NAS systems and they offer their devices with their own OS installed.

• Buffalo
• Drobo
• PiBox
• QNAP
• Synology
• TerraMaster
• Thecus
• Western Digital

Pimp a commercial NAS

There are some tricks available to pimp a commercial NAS.

• Synology
  • RAM upgrade DS920+
• TerraMaster
  • OMV on F2-220 (German)
  • RAM upgrade F5-221
• Western Digital
  • OMV on PR4100
  • RAM upgrad PR4100

DIY NAS hardware builds

In case you want to build your own NAS, you can find several instructions:

• Brian Moses
• Elefacts, a German site
• Heise Verlag, a German site
• Michael Lynch
• Serverbuilds, a kind of NAS community
• Technikaffe, a German Site

DIY NAS operating systems

For a DIY NAS you need an operating system. Here are some potential ones:

• Openmediavault
• TrueNAS Core, based on FreeBSD since 2005
• TrueNAS Scale, based on Debian since 2022
• Unraid (commercial)
• XigmaNAS

External cases

Maybe you want to use a PC in front of the storage. In this case you may regard an external RAID case supporting USB or thunderbolt.

• Highpoint
• OWC
• Raidsonic

Disk drive informations

• Backblaze
• Shingled Magnetic Recording vs Conventional Magnetic Recording