Ok. Rådene her har overbevist os om at købe en Synology NAS! Tak!

Nu... er HDD med leveringstider denne måned (i stedet for 2027...) ekstremt dyre lige nu. Har du nogle tips til et "anstændigt" prissat Seagate eller WD 3 til 6TB HDD (i Danmark)?

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English: We'll buy a Synology NAS. Thanks for the advice!

I just learned even small (4 to 6TB) NAS drives are difficult to find*, let alone at any price resembling sanity.

Any tips for a somewhat affordable 3, 4 or 6TB NAS HDD (Seagate or WD red) deliverable to Denmark are much appreciated.

*with stores casually mentioning delivery windows in 2027..

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@Pepijn For a Synology, be careful you buy one that allows "3rd party" drives. https://tweakers.net/nieuws/240078/synology-laat-gebruikers-toch-thirdparty-hdds-gebruiken-bij-plus-nassen.html

Otherwise you're limited to "certified" drives, which are much more expensive.

I'm using my Synology with WD Ultrastar drives, and that's working just fine. They're not the most quiet, but are very suited for NASes. I've had less luck with WD Gold's in a Synology in the past.

Bought everything at https://azerty.nl and also had them assemble it (which turned out to be a good decision)

@Pepijn And, not to second guess your already made decision but FYI: If you're looking for a really silent NAS, my brother just got this https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/2132390/terramaster-f8-ssd-plus.html with 4x 8TB SSDs, and is very happy with it.

He even set it up it with a dedicated VPN tunnel so that wherever he is in the world, it's as if his NAS is just a folder on his computer, laptop, and/or phone.

He built it himself, and the VPN tunnel did take more research and tweaking than my Synology did, but he likes that stuff ;-)

@ebbe No second guessing here: I DON'T like this stuff (in part as I get annoyed at the costs) ;-)

I wonder what your brother is using it for. Four drives constantly (or mostly) spinning must use a lot of a electricity.

edit: ah, SSD. Bit less energy then. Still somewhat overkill for our use ;-)

@Pepijn His prime reason for going with an SSD solution was the almost complete lack of any noise. Mine is hidden away in a shelve in the kitchen, so I don't care about the noise that much.

We both use our NASes as on-site backup solution, media/file server, and hosting shared files. The Synology can do a lot more (webserver, email server, collaboration, office suite, etc) but I guess I only really use ±25% of what it can do. I'm considering going for a simpler/cheaper SSD solution in ±3 years

@Pepijn But that also heavily depends on prices of SSD memory by that time. My brother was lucky that he bought his memory bars just before the big price jumps.

BTW, my previous solution was this: https://www.westerndigital.com/products/network-attached-storage/wd-my-cloud-expert-series-ex2-ultra?sku=WDBVBZ0000NCH-NESN

For simple use cases (backups, network storage, and rudimentary access via internet/app if you need your files remotely or on your tablet/phone) it was absolutely sufficient. And the big plus; It's an all in one out of the box solution, little building/tweaking required.