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The nice thing about Synology storage stuff is that it's a nice GUI (seriously, they're about the only company I can think of that's doing appliance management

The nice thing about Synology storage stuff is that it's a nice GUI (seriously, they're about the only company I can think of that's doing appliance management right) on top of standard and battle-tested open source tools. This was one of the reasons I was okay with paying their prices. Even if the device completely craps the bed, I'll be able to hook the drives containing absolutely normal LVM/btrfs volumes up to another machine and get my data out.

jen729w 8y ago
It’s the reason I’m desperate to get my pro-photographer best mate off her old Drobo and on to a new Synology. Should be happening in the next few weeks, and not a minute too soon. The Drobo is literally a black box to me. It either mounts and you can see disks, or it doesn’t. And if it doesn’t ... well. Yep. Right-o. I’ll try rebooting it, I guess.
marmaduke 8y ago
What about that “hybrid raid” stuff they have? What is it?
- kalleboo 8y ago
  It's just a particular LVM configuration with a nice UI https://superuser.com/a/1367697 https://superuser.com/a/1367697
petre 8y ago
Btrfs is battle tested? https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gotchas https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gotchas We use a box with 2x2TB mirror zpools. It runs Nas4free off an 128GB SSD. Initially we wanted to use Freenas but ir needs 16GB of RAM, while Nas4free works fine with 8. It also does SMART monitoring sending emails when something is up.
- doublepg23 8y ago
  FreeNAS works fine with 8GB RAM, especially with such little data
- ValentineC 8y ago
  On the btrfs Parity Raid issue: Synology uses btrfs on md RAID [1], so I believe it's more stable than the native btrfs implementation. [1] https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/tutorial/Storage/What_was_the_RAID_implementation_for_Btrfs_File_System_on_SynologyNAS https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/tutoria...
lostlogin 8y ago
It’s nice for running Docker in too and give a beginner a fairly gentle introduction. The boxes are also really nice in that you have a range of configuration options that lets you get what you need. Don’t put big Seagate drives in it if it’s near where you sleep though as they make a bit of noise as they grind.

jen729w 8y ago

It’s the reason I’m desperate to get my pro-photographer best mate off her old Drobo and on to a new Synology. Should be happening in the next few weeks, and not a minute too soon. The Drobo is literally a black box to me. It either mounts and you can see disks, or it doesn’t. And if it doesn’t ... well. Yep. Right-o. I’ll try rebooting it, I guess.

marmaduke 8y ago

What about that “hybrid raid” stuff they have? What is it?

kalleboo 8y ago
It's just a particular LVM configuration with a nice UI https://superuser.com/a/1367697 https://superuser.com/a/1367697

petre 8y ago

Btrfs is battle tested? https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gotchas https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gotchas We use a box with 2x2TB mirror zpools. It runs Nas4free off an 128GB SSD. Initially we wanted to use Freenas but ir needs 16GB of RAM, while Nas4free works fine with 8. It also does SMART monitoring sending emails when something is up.

doublepg23 8y ago
FreeNAS works fine with 8GB RAM, especially with such little data
ValentineC 8y ago
On the btrfs Parity Raid issue: Synology uses btrfs on md RAID [1], so I believe it's more stable than the native btrfs implementation. [1] https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/tutorial/Storage/What_was_the_RAID_implementation_for_Btrfs_File_System_on_SynologyNAS https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/tutoria...

lostlogin 8y ago

It’s nice for running Docker in too and give a beginner a fairly gentle introduction. The boxes are also really nice in that you have a range of configuration options that lets you get what you need. Don’t put big Seagate drives in it if it’s near where you sleep though as they make a bit of noise as they grind.