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Devices => PC's and Other Hardware => Topic started by: zybex on April 20, 2025, 01:56:25 am
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Hard to recommend a Synology NAS with this move:
https://www.servethehome.com/synology-lost-the-plot-with-hard-drive-locking-move/
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If this sticks I am not going to upgrade when my DS1918+ goes down. Looking for alternatives.
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Why not just build a Linux server? Or Windows?
I've never understood why people are attracted to NAS drives. They're just another computer, and not a standard one. They have lots of quirks.
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I like QNAP.
I've never understood why people are attracted to NAS drives. They're just another computer, and not a standard one. They have lots of quirks.
It's a very low maintenance storage system, once properly setup. Fire and forget. Cost effective, if you value your time.
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TrueNAS or HexOS would be the way to go if you like the DIY solution. QNAP if you want a pre-made solution that you just wanna add drives to.
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I like QNAP.
It's a very low maintenance storage system, once properly setup. Fire and forget. Cost effective, if you value your time.
I hear what you're saying and Linux can be a bit of work for some things, but just running a plain file server on Linux is quick and pretty low maintenance. I setup a Linux SMB/CIFS file server from scratch on Debian about 10 years ago. I think I spend about an hour of maintenance a year (not counting periodic drive replacements, which are more of a hardware thing than a software thing). And the non-drive hardware was just an old PC that was "free."
I've never owned a synology or qnap, but I suspect the turnkey NAS systems offer a lot of other "stuff" on top of just serving files though, right (via docker, et al), and that's part of the value prop? Although I feel like there are a ton of support threads here about using some of those extras so they may not be that much easier?
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Crap- I hope that this Synology change won't affect my DS1821+ which is currently running 6- 16 TB Seagate EXOS drives. I've been thinking of replacing the ~5 year old drives a pair at a time with 24 TB EXOS or Ironwolf Pro versions.