Here's Why I Built My Own NAS With Unraid and an eBay Server Instead of Buying a Synology
Summary Instead of spending thousands on a pre-built NAS, eBay offers great deals on enterprise-grade servers if you’re willing to do a little work. Enterprise-grade server hardware offers numerous benefits, like additional processing power, higher RAM capacities, and more expandability over desktop NAS systems. For an operating system, Unraid is user-friendly, simplifies setting up shares, utilizes parity drives, and supports virtual machines. I needed a lot of storage for home media, photos, videos, documents, and more. Instead of buying an extremely expensive Synology server, I went an entirely different route and built my own storage server for a fraction of...