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Best Synology Replacement? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 8 months ago by ramble81@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I have a DS220+, which frankly I love, but I’m looking to replace it soon. It only has 2 drives, Synology is pulling some fuckery with needing their branded drives and I’m staying on the 6.x firmware given what I’ve seen/heard with 7.x

All that being said, I’m trying to find something that is:

  • At least 4 bays
  • Small form factor (it shouldn’t be much bigger than the drives it’s holding)
  • Capable of running Docker
  • Capable of backing up to an S3 bucket
  • Capable of backing up Windows Clients
  • Habe a decent GUI (I can do CLI, but frankly, don’t want to)

I was thinking potentially QNAP, but didn’t know what else is out there. I really do like Synology and would have looked at one of their models but their vendor lock in move ticked me off. Maybe finding a used 420 or 920?

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[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I have an optiplex 3000 and it can't even fit 2 HDDs

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's ussf ssf and sf size. Best bet is to get an sf case.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Mine is the SFF version, can only fit 1 HDD