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Synology hardware is overpriced for what it is, but in the home-sized NAS segment, it's still way cheaper than buying drives. I simply can't afford to buy a wh
by kalleboo 6y ago
Synology hardware is overpriced for what it is, but in the home-sized NAS segment, it's still way cheaper than buying drives.
I simply can't afford to buy a whole array upfront. I can just afford to expand it every other year or whatever.
- jjav 6y agoIf you're comfortable with the large and ever increasing risk of loss (by adding drives without adding redundancy) then Synology is probably indeed a better match for your use case then ZFS. I don't really understand why pay for dedicated NAS hardware if reliability isn't priority #1, but that's me. Personally, for stuff that I care about but not quite that much, I just keep on the SSD on my laptop. It'll very probably be fine but there is risk of loss (same as Synology). For the things I care deeply about, they go on the ZFS server with tons of redundancy, snapshots and backups. I'd never trust the truly precious data to anything other than ZFS.