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NAS Upgrade

NAS Upgrade

It was time to upgrade to a more capable NAS. I was really wanting something that could handle Hardware Encoding and Full-Size HDDs. I have been running a OMV4 box on a pi with an SHDD 2TB drive. It worked but video occasionally lagged. I also wanted to be able to store my video scratch drive on the NAS. I started looking at QNAP and Synology NAS boxes. I found that so many used the variants of Intel chips that had desolder issues. The J4000 series appears not to have this issue and is much more energy efficient. It would be just demoralizing to come back to a NAS that is just randomly dead. I thought about building my own, but the Google Drive integration is so much better on the prebuilt systems. I settled on the Asustor AS5202T which is marketed as more of a pro-consumer box. It requires a little more technical know how to set it up but includes many of the options that would take more time to setup on the competitor boxes. I installed 2 WD Red drives(6TB). 

Setup:

  • Certificates setup for my No-Ip Dynamic DNS
  • Port Forward only select ports to protect it
  • Setup Email notifications
  • Setup Joomla3 Blog
  • Synced my Google Drive Accounts
  • Setup Calbre-Web for my E-Book Collection
  • Setup Plex
  • Setup schedules for updates, scans, and maintenance
  • Port and vulnerability scanning
  • Transferred over data

So far the device has been amazing and the video that streams off it is buttery smooth.