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Stupid question: Does dedicated NAS have any advantages for power user? Buy some cheap Ryzen box, stuff it with harddrives, install Centos and forget about it.

• rfoo 5y ago
  For engineers with enough time (and able to do troubleshooting), no, no advantages. For everyone else, they do have advantage, most thing you wanted is 1 click away, including something tedious for average "power users", like "using btrfs safely with RAID-5-like disk array" (so that you can take a snapshot of your drive) mentioned here.
• jbverschoor 5y ago
  It's actually very user friendly.. You can buy a DSM license to install on a normal machine
  • ValentineC 5y ago
    > You can buy a DSM license to install on a normal machine Do you have a link to a licence sales page?
    • jbverschoor 5y ago
      I'm quite positive I've seen it for custom hardware.. but it seems VDSM is only available (officially) for Synology devices. https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/VDSM_License_Pack https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/VDSM_License_Pac... I know xpenology uses the official software, but I'm not sure if that is legal.
• jnxx 5y ago
  Electrical power consumption is a point worth looking at.