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For at-home NAS, is Synology the best for recreating Google services?

• xur17 5y ago
  It's the best I've found so far. They have a number of apps (docs, drive, moments, etc), and I wouldn't say they are as good as Google right now, but they are quite workable.
  • TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
    In Love my synology. The differentiator between NAS devices is not the hardware but the software.
• mackrevinack 5y ago
  i have one myself and i would say its the best out of all the alternative nas's out there. you pay a bit extra but its worth it considering how easy it is to setup. i also paid a bit more extra for the plus model so i could run docker which in turns gives you a huge selection of other apps over the built in apps or the synocommunity apps https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
• fma 5y ago
  I've had Synology for years and I have used their Photos and Momemts app. It's pretty dang hard to recreate a Google service.It's great for backup and have control over the photos - but dang it's slow....if I need something real quick, I usually go to google photos...even when I'm home. Maybe I need to upgrade to a NAS w/ faster processor, I don't know. I've turned off the Google Photos facial recognition stuff because of privacy, but dang I miss the convenience. Moments has their own but it's not a good. Google photos I can easily search for a city or text or an object and it pops up quickly.