Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ganoushoreilly 1329 days ago
Not OP but the biggest thing to look at amongst the models is Network connectivity speed requirements, Storage requirements (Size and Number of drives), and if you plan on running containers / applications on the nas.

The While pricier the DS18xx range are the most common I've seen (depending on your budget). If you plan on getting one used off ebay, look out for the 1815+ and others in the xx15 generation, they had faulty intel atom chips that ended up hosing the systems sadly.

I've got a couple DS1817 's with the DX517 expansion chassis added on (total of 18 drives). They've been great for storing movies / media but unfortunately they're a bit low powered for transcoding.

1 comments

Thanks very much!