Imagine making sure customers don’t buy your shit.
That’s a shame. Building your own NAS it’s not that difficult and a valuable learning experience.
Have any handy non-video guides you would recommend on how to do so? I’m keen to learn this.
Any PC building guide, use a case with enough 3.5" bays and a mainboard with plenty of SATA and M.2 ports (if you want SSD csche).
After that it gets more specialized.
Turns out my next NAS will be a custom after all.
Looks like I’ll have to treat my current Synology like I treat my Brother printer. Reverently.
I bought a U-Nas case a while ago. Just a small NAS-style PC case with eight 3.5" disk bays. I built it up and played around with it, but never put it into service in my homelab. It just sat there (off) with Truenas or something on it for testing. Well, it was a good thing I never did anything with it as I needed it the day my Synology died last year. It was a DS1518+ on (a lot of) borrowed time having lasted nine years. I mentally toyed with buying a new NAS, but the idea of spending a few thousand dollars didn’t excite me (or the wife).
So, I loaded up Xpenology on a thumb drive and plugged it into my U-Nas. It did not take me long to see how easy this was to load up a Synology DSM and hit the ground running. Then, once I loaded all my disks in, it saw everything and asked if I wanted to upgrade the OS. Sure, why not?
So, all data intact and running a mostly generic set of hardware as a Synology only a couple of days later. Zero extra cost for me as I already had everything. But you can do this too with hardware you might have laying about. I highly recommend it.
DS1518+ on (a lot of) borrowed time having lasted nine years
DS416 nervously blinks in the corner
Don’t you dare.
I’m still running my DS1812+, she’s purring along with no signs of distress. 😅 I have another DS1515+ that I recently added and the difference in speed/responsiveness in the DSM OS is night and day. So the older DS1812+ is now mostly for long term storage.
DS213 … 😰
But why are the bays so expensive?! (A 6 bay is like almost six times a one bay)
Nice! I’ll keep this in mind!
Qnap has been pretty good so far.
Well I currently own a Synology NAS and it officially will be my last.
Yep same. I bought my 1522+ in 2023 and it should continue to meet all my needs long into the future. But when I finally decide to decommission it, it’ll be time to diy an unraid or freenas build
I don’t regret building my home server with Unraid at all. It’s great, use any drives, don’t even have to be the same sizes.
The pricing is reasonable, but one issue is that they changed their pricing scheme recently to only give a year of updates for all but the costliest license. I was grandfathered in unless I upgrade my license, but it’s something to consider.
According to their site, the OS can only boot from a thumb drive. And if the drive fails you can only move the license to a new one once per year.
Why not allow it to boot from a small SSD or something?
I’m using Openmedievault and it works just fine. No need to spend money out put up with enshittification.
Interesting, I must have missed it when investigating. It seems a little “Linux power user”-y, though - is that accurate? It says for home office, but is it good for movies/music/etc hosting?
https://www.openmediavault.org/features.html
I can figure out how to get things done when I know the goal (I learned plenty of command-line, docker containers, etc setup with Unraid). So not a beginner. But to be honest, I can’t even understand if the features on this “features” page are things that are important to me because I don’t know enough acronyms and foundational knowledge, so it’s a little imposing.
Not OP but I use it as my nas for my jellyfin stack and run docker containers on it just like unraid. It is less plug and play than unraid. Specifically to mirror the unraid array on omv, but it can be done. I used this site a couple years ago, it appears to have been updated, but hopefully will help. https://perfectmediaserver.com/
That’s a big fuck-up.
Hey maybe the Sonos app guy can help them out.
Synology’s new Plus Series NAS
This isn’t surprising. SOHO and middle tier business hardware installs have all kinds of these requirements from support vendors. Synology was sort of an outlier on those that just allowed mixed bag and it provide software calculations on hard drive health.
That they want knowns in their machines isn’t surprising. I’m actually surprised it isn’t a complete drop in any assurances if you BYOD.
These features in this product aren’t home or consumer grade and indicating that it’s for the “advance home user” is like saying Arch Linux is the advance MacOS. There’s a lot of detail behind that statement that’s not being addressed.
It is sad to see them go this route, but I cannot say it comes as a surprise. But honestly, if you’re a hobbyist and see yourself using the features in this level of NAS, you’re likely skilled enough as is to build your own. And honestly, you’ll be happier building your own.
Synology requires self-branded drives
I’ve started to categorize enshittification headlines by how many words it takes me to know I won’t be dealing with a company again (after reviewing the article for accuracy, of course). This one only took 5 words, and one is a compound. That’s pretty efficient.
They’ve been implementing this for a while with some of their models. There’s an excellent script that is actively maintained to get around their shit policies.
I’m only using a Synology (ds1823xs+) because I got a killer deal. (Sometimes I still wish I went with unraid.) I’ve never encountered any issues using unapproved hard drives with this script.
My man, I wouldn’t bet on Unraid not going the same route like Plex.
Ha! I bought a plex lifetime pass years ago while on sale. Maybe one day I’ll switch to jellyfin- maybe sooner than I think.
On a positive note synologys brtfs is pretty cool. If anything, it’s one less thing I don’t need to worry about.
Feeling real good about learning TrueNAS Scale now.
Any tips on dealing with ACL?
Oh, you mean my biggest problem?!
I’ve just resorted to using the shell to set permissions on stuff. For the most part everything works but I’ve had issues with NFS shares. I think some of that was copying from Windows and Windows trying to do things it shouldn’t but once I just manually set things up I was able to back all my stuff up.
VMs and apps run in their own little areas so they just happily hum along.
Anyone know of anyone else with the same level of turnkey NAS solution? I liked synology for its lack of having to fuck around with random bullshit.
Qnap
Will avoid. Thanks for the heads up.
The enshitification will continue until revenues improve…
Glad I built my own OMV
OMV is great.
Hopefully the nas ive got holds up for a long time…
I love my synology router and had considered buying a NAS. That’s a deal breaker for me though. I have a proxmox machine running ubuntu server as a “NAS” right now so I’ll stick with that.
