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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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[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If the only thing worrying you is the hard drives, we put random HDDs in a new Synology and it works just fine. We decommissioned our previous one that was running for since 2007 or so basically non stop. There was a noisy fan we had to replace but that was all.

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 1 points 8 months ago

Just a note, but ages ago I slapped 4 identical drives in a Synology unit that were not on the tested list and did experience a problem. I've always checked the list when I buy bulk drives off eBay and never had a problem since.