KumutyKaB86

Hello,
I do not understand. The 12 TB and 14 TB are 7200 rpm, the 6 TB is 5400 rpm. Doesn't the noise level depend on the rpm?

According to the WD documentation:

12 TB (WD120EFBX) or 14 TB

Iddle: 20 dB SeeK: 29 dB

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6 TB (WD60EFZX)

Iddle: 25 dB SeeK: 30 dB

https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/internal-drives/wd-red-plus-hdd/product-brief-western-digital-wd-red-plus-hdd.pdf

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So far, I didn't want to buy a 2 bay, 2 x 12 TB HDD because I thought it would be noisier than a 4 bay, 4 x 6 TB HDD.

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What is the truth?

Hello ladies and gentlemen,

I am a beginner and clueless, can you help me? :)

We are looking to buy our first NAS for home office use in our own small business for two people. We want to use it on WIFI, cabling is difficult.

We don't want to use the NAS for watching movies, running apps etc.

We need a central data store that we can access from two laptops, and this data store backs up automatically to an external HDD and the cloud.

We work 80% of the time with documents, pdf, excel, images, music files, but we also edit 5-10 full HD, sometimes 4k videos per month.

The videos are copied to the laptop with an SD card, edited there and then uploaded to the NAS. I suppose editing directly on the NAS would be slow.

Currently we have about 2.8 TB of data, in the next 3-4 years we will have 6-7 TB.

It is important that the NAS and HDD are both quiet. So basically we wanted to go for DS223 or DS224+ with 8 TB WD RED PLUS HDD.

However, I read that 8-12 TB is significantly noisier than 6 TB, so we considered DS423 or DS423+.

However, due to budget, we would only fit 1 6 TB HDD at first, 1 6 TB after 6 months, 1 6 TB after 6 months, etc. That's the idea.

1. In this case, should I set SHR, SHR-2 or RAID?

2. Which combination will be quieter? DS223/DS224+ with 2 x 8 TB HDD or DS423/DS423+ with 4 x 6 HDD? WD RED PLUS. For me, the 2 bay NAS with 2 x 8 TB HDD would be enough, but if it's loud, I prefer the 4 bay with 4x6 TB.

3. Over WIFI (NAS in the same apartment as the laptop) what download and upload speeds can I expect? Right now I am downloading torrents at about 40 mb/sec. If I take it from pCloud or other cloud, 5-10-20 mb/sec. Will the NAS be faster?

4. Given the usage described above, do we need the + version or is it unnecessary? I think it is unnecessary, but what do you think?

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Thanks a lot, sorry if it got long or complicated!

Regards!

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Hello,

We would like to buy our first NAS for home and home office use, in our own small business, for two people. We would like to use it on WIFI, the main thing is to have all data in one place and to make backups automatically from there.

We don't want to film, run servers, etc. Just store data in a central location and backup.

I was looking at DS224+ but have a few questions:

- unfortunately we have a small apartment, the NAS would be about 3-4 meters from the bed where we sleep. how loud is a NAS? Like a running laptop?-

Are WD red, red plus, Synology or Seagate HDDs the quietest? What are your experiences? 8 TB.

- For financial reasons I would buy only 1 8 TB HDD for the first time, no RAID1.

However, another external HDD would be plugged in and backed up to it, and also to the cloud. If I later buy another 8 TB HDD for the NAS, I can put it in without any problems and have RAID1?

Is it complicated to set up?I don't know the ports, IP, etc. I'm not a tech guru. Installing a windows program, etc. goes, but that's it. Can you get the NAS up and running in 1-2 hours?I don't have much time or inclination to deal with this for days, if it's a hassle I'd rather buy an external HDD, it's easier to copy.

Thanks!