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Synology NAS Enclosures: DS220+ 2-Bay $240, DS923+ 4-Bay
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All these people talking about Unraid setups, custom boxes that use a ton of power, loud fans in a big chassis, etc. just doesn't really appeal to me. This stuff needs to pass the WAF.
I work on enterprise IT architecture every day. I definitely have the skills to do this and have in the past. But I have a wife and kids and a home to maintain, and honestly, Synology does it well, and I don't want to waste my time.
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Just an example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/26632480...3e02
You can go a lot cheaper if you remove the need for hot swap drives, which realistically anyone buying one of these simple NAS systems does not need.
Need is a strong word, but having zero downtime to replace a drive is fantastic. If your solution can't compete, that's OK; we can move on from it.
The simple answer is there's nothing in this price category that includes the specs I've provided. Synology (and QNAP, and a few others) have a fairly innovative product here:
1. Super easy to set up if you're a bit technical, with OS included and ready to go
2. Cheap, or, at least, not terribly expensive
3. Dead silent
4. Super low power
5. Warrantied and professionally supported (3 years! Can be 5 for just a few bucks!)
6. Hot swap (with the + models) for no downtime, easy fixing dead drives
7. Fantastic GUI (at least for Synology)
It's trivial to backup $APPDATA$ for your docker containers to anywhere you want (for Plex, Couchpotato, etc.).
With Hyperbackup and replication there are many ways to backup file-level or OS-level stuff on Synology.
Active Backup will do a full DSM backup.
Please can you explain a bit what you are talking about?
Need is a strong word, but having zero downtime to replace a drive is fantastic. If your solution can't compete, that's OK; we can move on from it.
The simple answer is there's nothing in this price category that includes the specs I've provided. Synology (and QNAP, and a few others) have a fairly innovative product here:
1. Super easy to set up if you're a bit technical, with OS included and ready to go
2. Cheap, or, at least, not terribly expensive
3. Dead silent
4. Super low power
5. Warrantied and professionally supported (3 years! Can be 5 for just a few bucks!)
6. Hot swap (with the + models) for no downtime, easy fixing dead drives
7. Fantastic GUI (at least for Synology)
Those 2 alternatives are not hard to setup but to be honest they are not as easy or convenient as Synology's solution. If you are already running a Synology and money is not a concern I would say stay with that solution, ie get another Synology NAS. If something breaks you can just call Synology support and they will fix it. For NextCloud and FileCloud free versions you are on your own if something breaks. Also, if there is a security vulnerability that impacts your business Synology might be liable and you could get some money through a legal process if you are willing to go that route. With NextCloud and FileCloud free versions you are liable if there is a vulnerability that gets exploited as those free softwares are provided "as is" without any warranties.
In summary, as everything in life there are tradeoffs to consider. All 3 solutions are good but you have to decide which one is more convenient for you.
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For local content, you should be able to just stream it native. At that point, the network should be the only bottleneck.
It's trivial to backup $APPDATA$ for your docker containers to anywhere you want (for Plex, Couchpotato, etc.).
With Hyperbackup and replication there are many ways to backup file-level or OS-level stuff on Synology.
Active Backup will do a full DSM backup.
Please can you explain a bit what you are talking about?
Need is a strong word, but having zero downtime to replace a drive is fantastic. If your solution can't compete, that's OK; we can move on from it.
The simple answer is there's nothing in this price category that includes the specs I've provided. Synology (and QNAP, and a few others) have a fairly innovative product here:
1. Super easy to set up if you're a bit technical, with OS included and ready to go
2. Cheap, or, at least, not terribly expensive
3. Dead silent
4. Super low power
5. Warrantied and professionally supported (3 years! Can be 5 for just a few bucks!)
6. Hot swap (with the + models) for no downtime, easy fixing dead drives
7. Fantastic GUI (at least for Synology)
All can be had for under $300 with most hovering around the $200 range and feature multiple 2.5Gb LAN ports (some even have 10Gb SFP+ ports) so that you can actually utilize all this storage bandwidth. They also have QuickSync.
You can connect these right up to an eSATA or LAN based hot swap chassis and have a significantly better NAS with most of the benefits you've outlined within the price range of Synology.
It may not sound easy, but it's about as complicated as if you were trying to explain Synology to someone who just bought an external hard drive for their backup needs.
DS923+ - $479.99
DS1522+ - $559.99
The 4-core CPU would have been nice on the DS224+ model, but $60 saved is still an ok trade-off.
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The Dell WS has a cost.
It's loud. Hot. Uses far more power than the Synology.
Requires a nVidia card, uses even more power.
No 3 year warranty, nor professional support.
It's not like the list I provided at all!
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