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For anyone moving from google photos and looking for alternatives, I recently transitioned to a NAS from Synology. They offer many apps, and one is very similar

For anyone moving from google photos and looking for alternatives, I recently transitioned to a NAS from Synology. They offer many apps, and one is very similar to this project, although a bit more polished. It's not open source, though (AFAIK). Performance with 2TB of movies and raw photos is awesome (60k files+). Indexing and face recognition took a few days, though. https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/moments https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/moments

alisonkisk 6y ago
It's amazing that synology would hold themselves back with a proprietary app when they are trying to sell hardware and are competing against Google and Apple.
- beagle3 6y ago
  Synology is selling an experience, like Apple, not hardware. It's a plug-it-and-it-works private-on-premise cloud. They are not competing with Google or Apple in the sense that customer usually decide on-premise or cloud-based and only then look for a solution (prices are on the same scale, so the reason to choose one over the other is usually not price).
- Octopuz 6y ago
  You could still run docker on the x86 models and host one of the solutions mentioned here.
dsego 6y ago
A bit off-topic, but I've just bought a small 2-bay synology NAS and I'm wondering if I should go ext4 or btrfs for my family photos/videos. I like the idea of data safety features like checksums & scrubbing, but ext4 seems more robust & tested. Which did you go with?
- Octopuz 6y ago
  btrfs works fine in Synology's implementation. Please keep in mind that RAID is not a backup. You can backup to a cloud service or to a friend's house with its own Synology.
  - dsego 6y ago
    Thanks, I was hoping it would. I understand that raid is not backup. I have two external drives and will probably also use a cloud service for off-site. I was also considering htl blurays for archives, but we'll see. The NAS will become the central storage hub so we don't keep files scattered around on family laptops and smartphones.

alisonkisk 6y ago

It's amazing that synology would hold themselves back with a proprietary app when they are trying to sell hardware and are competing against Google and Apple.

beagle3 6y ago
Synology is selling an experience, like Apple, not hardware. It's a plug-it-and-it-works private-on-premise cloud. They are not competing with Google or Apple in the sense that customer usually decide on-premise or cloud-based and only then look for a solution (prices are on the same scale, so the reason to choose one over the other is usually not price).
Octopuz 6y ago
You could still run docker on the x86 models and host one of the solutions mentioned here.

dsego 6y ago

A bit off-topic, but I've just bought a small 2-bay synology NAS and I'm wondering if I should go ext4 or btrfs for my family photos/videos. I like the idea of data safety features like checksums & scrubbing, but ext4 seems more robust & tested. Which did you go with?

Octopuz 6y ago
btrfs works fine in Synology's implementation. Please keep in mind that RAID is not a backup. You can backup to a cloud service or to a friend's house with its own Synology.
- dsego 6y ago
  Thanks, I was hoping it would. I understand that raid is not backup. I have two external drives and will probably also use a cloud service for off-site. I was also considering htl blurays for archives, but we'll see. The NAS will become the central storage hub so we don't keep files scattered around on family laptops and smartphones.