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I'm about to upgrade my home NAS from a 10yr old tower + samba/netatalk to something more NAS like, mainly for centralized photo storage and time machine backup
by wiredfool 6y ago
I'm about to upgrade my home NAS from a 10yr old tower + samba/netatalk to something more NAS like, mainly for centralized photo storage and time machine backups. (2+ tb of photos, 1+ tb in backups)
I'm on the fence between something diy like freenas, or more packaged like a synology. It's got to work for people on macs with small ssds who aren't interested in command lines, writing apps, or other techie level stuff. They just want to be able to find photos in a 20 year archive.
I don't know if photos will work with a library mounted on the remote drive, time machine has always been a bit touchy on the old machine over wifi. On the other hand, I'm not sure I trust the synologys if I can't pull the drives and read them elsewhere when things go wrong.
- ValentineC 6y agoI'm using a DIY Synology fork(?) called Xpenology. There's a small risk things stop booting between minor versions, but otherwise it works as well as a real box. > I'm not sure I trust the synologys if I can't pull the drives and read them elsewhere when things go wrong. Synology drives are easily mountable using mdadm + lvm.
- wiredfool 6y agoThanks for that. Is there there any sort of wizzy photo management in Xpenology?
- ValentineC 6y agoSome Synology users seem to like their Moments app a lot: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/moments https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/moments
- mceachen 6y agoYou're welcome to try PhotoStructure! Free during the beta in exchange for your feedback. https://photostructure.com/ https://photostructure.com/