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NAS Hardware selection

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I want to create a NAS for my family at home. I am already pretty sure about using TrueNAS as software, but the hardware is still open.

What hardware do you recommend for 2TB of usable Storage (+a second drive for mirroring the first one) that is used by 3 people for pictures, videos, and documents?

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just_another_person@lemmy.world
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HDD has 100x the storage capacity vs SSD. What are you talking about?

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itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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What decade do you live in? It’s closer to 2-4x nowadays, and 2TB is nothing

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tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net
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OP asked for 2TB and that’s easily done with SSD these days

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Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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100x ? Did you sleep for 15 years?

A 2tb SATA SSD has a comparable price to a 4tb SATA SSD.

If it wasn’t for the Al bubble the prices would be even lower

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turmacar@lemmy.world
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And a 4tb SSD is the same price as a 16tb HDD.

If that trend continues, when you get to a 100tb of SSD(s) the equivalently priced HDD(s) will have 100x the capacity.

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Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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4x is way far compared to 100x

the only case where hdds have a 100x ratio, is where apple scams their customers offering a 256gb upgrade for $200: it means $800 per terabyte (this price was a scam even 15 years ago), and a $500 18tb HDD is 100x “apple platinum grade ssd”

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myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website
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…What are you talking about?

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