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A 2-drive Synology (e.g. DS225+) in RAID 0 or RAID 1 works fine for this, for 90% less than this beast. Synology documented their optimal settings for Time Mac
by tedd4u 4mo ago
A 2-drive Synology (e.g. DS225+) in RAID 0 or RAID 1 works fine for this, for 90% less than this beast. Synology documented their optimal settings for Time Machine a couple years ago, too. Hope this is helpful. [1]
[1] https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/tutorial/How_to_back_up_files_from_Mac_to_Synology_NAS_with_Time_Machine https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/tutorial/How_to_back_up_fi...
- InTheArena 4mo agoOr if you want something from a vendor butting running decade old hardware configs and trying to lock people into their drive ecosystem, UNas or many other options. Stay away from synology.
- tristor 4mo agoI already have a DIY NAS w/ 14x 14TB drives in it running ZFS on FreeBSD. It does not play nicely with Time Machine over the network though, and has some other bugbears that I've resolved to fix by migrating to Linux and running ZFS on Linux, but have never got around to doing. A 2 drive anything is not replacing my existing NAS + solving my backup use case, although I appreciate the sentiment of saving money.
- tedd4u 4mo agoAh, sorry, I didn’t realize you already had a sizable array! Maybe you _are_ in the market for this thing!