Which NAS do you use with your Hackintosh ?

TrueNAS Core(under ESXI) with HDDs and TrueNas Scale with SSDs, 10GIGE nics, never once had problem.

QNAP TS 873-A with 2x10Gb/s NIC
Works like a charm

Much of the reason for building my Hacintosh many years ago was the ability to shove a bunch of hard disks into it. So, no NAS for me! I'm realizing that when I upgrade (eventually) I'll probably be forced into a NAS due to Apple's design trend, so this thread will be useful to revisit. Hopefully I still have a bunch more years left in my 10 year old machine.

Hi to all .

I made my own Storage, it is used to TimeMachine, as well as Media, files sharing, and test for ZFS file system .

I did, several years ago performance tests in some popular models, and I did not like any of them, so that was the reasoning that make me build in my way .

follows it config config :

Robbish said:

Why unsafe ?


Cool, I'll have to read up on that !


I forgot to list the Pi, is the nothing that tiny computer can't do?!

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I would recommend the BMD Multidock, but the price is now ~3x what it was when I bought mine.

I run TrueNAS Core (and before the change, FreeNas) on a Xeon E5-2670 v2 with 128gb of ECC DDR3 ram and 6 x 4tb Seagate SAS enterprise drives in RaidZ2. It's got an intel dual 10GbE nic and sustained performance is on par with @pastrychef tests on their Synology, 250-ish mb/sec for writes, 1Gb/Sec reads. Because of the high RAM for caching, burst performance is significantly higher, file copies of a few GB happen at close to nvme speeds.

Have a Synology 1817+ for a few years that I’ve been really happy with. Kinda tempted to try Xpenology with newer hardware though

djlild7hina said:

Have a Synology 1817+ for a few years that I’ve been really happy with. Kinda tempted to try Xpenology with newer hardware though for Plex transcoding and NVME cache

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I use a very weak CPU with my NAS. I run Plex server on it but I don't do any transcoding. I play everything on my Apple TV 4K and it has no problems playing anything that I've thrown at it without transcoding. My iPhone and computers also have no problems playing stuff without the need for transcoding.

Started with Synology boxes (211j, 413j, 416j) then moved to a pair of Xpenology (Synology clone pastrychef mentioned) one on a noname x79 MB that moved to a supermicro overkill setup and the other an HP microserver gen 8 (that I upgraded into an also overkill setup - do you see the pattern?).

Lost a bunch of VMs when I crashed the array and restored from backup (user stupidity) so took the opportunity to switch to Ubuntu w/ZFS on both.

Synology (Xpenology) is a much nicer experience and the setup (at least on DSM6) to use the Jun loader was very easy. At some point I might consider switching back.

unRaid. Excellent experience, easy scalability, set up and forget. Had it once rebuild two failed drives while emulating full array content until finished.