Subj : Re: Dead NAS...
To   : Ogg
From : Bucko
Date : Thu Sep 19 2024 06:48 pm

On 18 Sep 2024, Ogg said the following...
 
 Og> Hello Arelor!
 Og> 
 Og>  A> I can't talk about the Synology. Word in the street is that
 Og>  A> Synology is the Apple of the NAS world.
 Og> 
 Og> You're the 2nd person that has mentioned such a thing to me.   
 Og> So.. it's best to stay away from Synology boxes if the hope is  
 Og> to install DIY NAS software?
 Og> 
 Og> 
 Og>  A> I have an old Bufflo LinkStation which is supposedly a
 Og>  A> superior unit to the LS220 you linked. It is fine for a
 Og>  A> budget unit but you are going to bring it to its knees if
 Og>  A> you try to apply heavy load on it. I use it for storing
 Og>  A> backups.
 Og> 
 Og> A two-bay would be good enough for me to start with.  And 4TB  
 Og> (2 x 8TB, RAID 1) would be plenty.  I too primarily just need  
 Og> to store clone-images and basic backups.
 Og> 
 Og> 

I love Synology, my opinion is they have the best OS that runs a NAS, their OS 
is a bit tough to change to something else, and as someone mentioned they are 
moving towards making you use their enterprise HD's. My opinion is if you want 
to be able to use any HD, be able to change the OS to something else, then 
Terramaster, and UGreen are the way to go. I own a Synology, and a Terramaster 
2 Bay which I will soon be getting a 4bay unit. The Terramaster to change the 
OS was as simple as opening it up pulling out a USB thumbdrive, installing a 
new one.What I did was install a 512TB nVME drive pulled the thumbdrive, put 
proxmox on a new thumbdrive, booted from it, and installed Proxmox on the nVME 
drive. Upon bootup after that I installed Xpenology in Proxmox, the great thing 
about this method is you can install anything you want testing different OS' 
until you decide which one you want to run. I ran TrueNAS for about a week, I 
ran Unraid, Open Media Vault, all at the same time actually. I finally settled 
on Xpenology until I got a retired Surveilance machine which had a better 
Hardware setup. I will soon retire that machine and move over to the 4Bay 
Terramaster.

Sorry for rambling. 

Gonna plug my Synology Fanboy son here if you are interested in NAS software, 
hardware etc. check out my son's Youtube channel, Wundertech, and on the web 
www.wundertech.net he has a lot of useful info on his website and his video's 
explain a lot also...


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