KptnKMan Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 Hi all, I'm looking for some advice or experiences with running Unraid on QNAP/Synology/Other dedicated hardware. Hopefully someone out there can provide some general or specific recommendations for this? I'm a pretty happy user of unraid, and I'm looking to expand with a dedicated NAS system for array network storage. At the moment, I have 2 Unraid systems on AMD Ryzen that I use daily, but I'm looking to reduce my electricity usage by moving storage and essential storage to a centralised NAS unit, and leave my primary/secondary as compute nodes that I can switch off when not in use. The idea is to be able to offload tasks from my more hungry systems and make a NAS unit my always-on 24/7 system. I've been looking into specs and videos of QNAP and Synology NAS boxes, and I have been reading that Unraid runs on these without too much difficulty, but I've read mixed reports about how much. In a perfect world I'd love to get something like a Synology DS2422+ with 12 bays and just expand as I go, but I'm not sure if this will run Unraid at all. Realistically, I've tried to break it down to a definite set of requirements that I think will work for my background needs/workloads (NAS, plex, sonarr/radarr, wordpress, nextcloud). My requirements: - 8+ 3.5" bays for array - m.2 NVME port(s) - 10Gbit Networking - Preferably under 1k euros/dollars for unit - Preferably new Nice to have: - GPU for Plex hardware acceleration - Enough oomph for VMs Units I've looked at: - Synology DS1821+ (8 bay, m.2 slots) - QNAP TS-832PX-4G (8 bay, 10Gbit onboard) - Synology DS2422+ (12 bay Quote Link to comment
SimonF Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 1 hour ago, KptnKMan said: QNAP TS-832PX-4G (8 bay, 10Gbit onboard) Unraid will run QNAPS, but this one is a ARM processor so will not be supported. You would need x86. Quote Link to comment
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