{"id":3965,"date":"2026-05-14T01:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidnilles.com\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2026-05-14T01:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:36:09","slug":"network-attached-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidnilles.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/network-attached-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Network Attached Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I love my NAS drive. It has been up and running for over 4(!) years now, with zero issues. In combination with my network switch, I am able to run all of my devices off of ethernet so I can store media files, important documents, and literally anything else on redundant storage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is a Synology DS418 with (x4) 4TB Seagate Ironwolf HHDs giving me 16 TB of raw storage. I forget what RAID array type I went with, but I know I ended up with about 10 TB of usable storage when it formatted. So far I’ve only used about 3 TB of it, primarily on Revit projects and a large media library. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If I recall correctly, the drives are supposed to have a lifetime of 10 years, so I still should have 6 good years until I have to worry about updating the drives. Hopefully by that time HHD storage is even more affordable and I can upgrade to far larger drives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Installing the drives is so satisfying! They are attached directly to trays that slide into the chassis with ease. They connect to a board in the back and feel very secure. The front lever is used to hold them in place, and a key locks them in place. If this were a more secure facility, I would keep one key on me and one in a hidden location, but for now I just throw them on my desk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I quite like the Synology OS and Synology Assistant. Once I had the drives installed the OS recognized them and prompted me through the setup. It was easy and, though it was over 4 years ago now, I remember being surprised at how quick it went. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One primary thing that took some doing to set up was the Plex media server. I like using Plex because many devices have apps for it so I can link my account to my PC, my TV, my phone, iPad, etc. and have my full Plex media library available to stream. I haven’t paid for the advanced version of Plex so this is limited to being available on my home network, but that is plenty for my use. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love my NAS drive. It has been up and running for over 4(!) years now, with zero issues. In combination with my network switch, I am able to run all of my devices off of ethernet so I can store media files, important documents, and literally anything else on redundant storage. It is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[86,89,83,84,81,85,88,80,87],"class_list":["post-3965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-drives","tag-ethernet","tag-hard-drive","tag-hhd","tag-network","tag-networking","tag-plex","tag-storage","tag-tb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidnilles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidnilles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidnilles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidnilles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidnilles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/davidnilles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3993,"href":"https:\/\/davidnilles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions\/3993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidnilles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidnilles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidnilles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}