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I used to have a Synology NAS but eventually I got frustrated with the limitations of its obscure Linux distribution and upgraded to a NUC with a separate multi
by sjy 6y ago
I used to have a Synology NAS but eventually I got frustrated with the limitations of its obscure Linux distribution and upgraded to a NUC with a separate multi-bay USB 3.1 hard disk enclosure, which takes up about the same amount of space. I’m really happy with it. NAS appliances are great if they have built-in support for everything you want to do, but if you really want a multipurpose device, I suggest a small form factor computer.
Another advantage of this approach is that you’ll be forced to learn exactly how your redundant storage works. I was always worried that if the Synology device failed, I’d have to go out and buy the latest model and hope that it was able to read the hard disks from the failed device. Since all I did was click through the Synology GUI to set those disks up, I had no idea whether I’d be able to read them on another device.
- MobileVet 6y agoThat is a really good point. I think it runs standard RAID configurations, but I could be wrong. That said, it also supports encryption at rest so to your point, you probably couldn’t plug them in to another box. That kind of stinks. As you said, I may be expecting too much. Maybe a dedicated custom box is better suited to the multipurpose application.
- lazylizard 6y agoSynology are straight md raid... Any linux can mount them... Its not so bad..
- sjy 6y agoThat wasn’t obvious to me, as someone who had never built a Linux RAID from scratch at the time, reading the documentation on “Synology Hybrid RAID.” https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/tutorial/Storage/What_is_Synology_Hybrid_RAID_SHR https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/tutoria...