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I've been thinking of buying a home NAS and running Syncthing as a replacement for Dropbox/Google Drive. Does anyone have any recommendations? Synology comes up

by tapoxi 5y ago

I've been thinking of buying a home NAS and running Syncthing as a replacement for Dropbox/Google Drive. Does anyone have any recommendations? Synology comes up a lot, I might also just use a Raspberry Pi.

NortySpock 5y ago
Currently running Syncthing on an RPi 4 NAS, in a docker container. Works great between RPi, laptop and desktop. Haven't tried it while out-and-about, though that's not really my use case. *RPi4 NAS has one external thumb drive for flash storage and two spinning rust drives, one for storage, one for backup; all connected via USB. Occasionally I have to plug-unplug the spinning rust drives if the system reboots, as the drives go to sleep.
jvanderbot 5y ago
Syncthing for desktops / servers "Just works". I've used it between an AWS instance and my home network for years. Highly recommended. I finally got rid of it because of the awful mobile experience, but frankly I shouldn't have been counting on that anyway.
- adrusi 5y ago
  On Android it works acceptably. On iOS (at least iPad) you have the proprietary Möbius sync port which is a bit annoying in that it requires a regular push notification to perform any syncing, but with iOS 15 focus modes you can hide it without breaking the app. Only a few months left if you don't want to run the betas. What problems were you experiencing on mobile?
- qmmmur 5y ago
  Do you encrypt the data going up to Amazon or just raw dog it?
motiejus 5y ago
I've been doing this with an rpi+ usb3-attached ssd for years (kept upgrading rpis). Syncing across my laptop, phone and server (server backing it up nightly). Worked well for years. Now moved to a more powerful machine, but the concept is still the same. This setup allowed me to conveniently stop using google drive.
nicolaslem 5y ago
You can reuse old PC parts and install TrueNAS on outdated hardware, it will likely be more stable than anything built with Raspberry Pis. I used to run Syncthing on an old mac mini with two 2.5" HDD running FreeNAS (previous name of TrueNAS).
- trulyme 5y ago
  Not sure about mac mini, but some old machines might draw considerably more power than rpi. Rpi has a problem with sd cards, but you can make it use them in the read-only mode, in which case rpi becomes a very reliable computing device.
chrisdhal 5y ago
I use unRaid and Nextcloud.

by tapoxi 5y ago

NortySpock 5y ago

Currently running Syncthing on an RPi 4 NAS, in a docker container. Works great between RPi, laptop and desktop. Haven't tried it while out-and-about, though that's not really my use case. *RPi4 NAS has one external thumb drive for flash storage and two spinning rust drives, one for storage, one for backup; all connected via USB. Occasionally I have to plug-unplug the spinning rust drives if the system reboots, as the drives go to sleep.

jvanderbot 5y ago

Syncthing for desktops / servers "Just works". I've used it between an AWS instance and my home network for years. Highly recommended. I finally got rid of it because of the awful mobile experience, but frankly I shouldn't have been counting on that anyway.

adrusi 5y ago
On Android it works acceptably. On iOS (at least iPad) you have the proprietary Möbius sync port which is a bit annoying in that it requires a regular push notification to perform any syncing, but with iOS 15 focus modes you can hide it without breaking the app. Only a few months left if you don't want to run the betas. What problems were you experiencing on mobile?
qmmmur 5y ago
Do you encrypt the data going up to Amazon or just raw dog it?

motiejus 5y ago

I've been doing this with an rpi+ usb3-attached ssd for years (kept upgrading rpis). Syncing across my laptop, phone and server (server backing it up nightly). Worked well for years. Now moved to a more powerful machine, but the concept is still the same. This setup allowed me to conveniently stop using google drive.

nicolaslem 5y ago

You can reuse old PC parts and install TrueNAS on outdated hardware, it will likely be more stable than anything built with Raspberry Pis. I used to run Syncthing on an old mac mini with two 2.5" HDD running FreeNAS (previous name of TrueNAS).

trulyme 5y ago
Not sure about mac mini, but some old machines might draw considerably more power than rpi. Rpi has a problem with sd cards, but you can make it use them in the read-only mode, in which case rpi becomes a very reliable computing device.

chrisdhal 5y ago

I use unRaid and Nextcloud.