If you were to buy:
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@zak I have a Synology and their OS is a Linux fork. I’d consider them a good starter NAS units. If you want something more “expert,” I’d suggest looking at FreeNAS.
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@cronocx This is what I've heard. How are they when it comes to supporting their hardware? Do their devices receive updates for a number of years?
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@zak They absolutely do. Mine is gonna be five years old next year. One thing I forgot to mention is that while they are good, they have been constraining the types of Drives that can be used. Which I don’t like either, but they have a Drive Compatible page you can check against. Just something to be aware of. It wasn’t like that when I bought mine.
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@cronocx Hmm alright, that's good to know.
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@zak Yeah, but they’re still a good device: https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility
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@jalefkowit @cronocx This is definitely awesome, but admittedly I am a bit put off by the fact that on modern devices, I can't just put my own OS on them.
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@cronocx @zak The drive compatibility thing is a bit of an annoyance, because their marketing stuff puts their own drives front and center. It makes it look like you have to buy drives from them. But if you click through to the list of compatible third-party drives, you see that they still support all the big name drive vendors they used to.
It's marketing people doing marketing. Which sucks, but marketing people can't help it
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@zak @cronocx You can totally do that, it's just not the market Synology sells into. They are selling to people who want a NAS that works like an appliance -- you put in some drives, plug it into power and networking, and everything Just Works. There's no way to provide that if the user is bringing their own operating system.
Synology devices are still highly customizable -- you can add lots of servers and services via their package system. But if you want to build your own NAS from the ground up, they're not what you want.
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@jalefkowit @zak As I discovered last night, older models support way more 3rd party drives then current models, which sucks. They’re gonna get hurt by that in the long run IMO.
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