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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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[–] SphericalCow@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Guess I need to write my first ever comment now as well haha

Can second this! Recently got a DXP6800 Plus and the hardware is great. Though I didn’t really bother with the UGREEN OS and installed TrueNAS on it fresh out of the box.

In comparison to my old 6-bay QNAP the only downside is IMO that it’s a fair bit bulkier. But it still fits nicely under a desk.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 3 points 8 months ago

Same here, I have the 4800 Plus and immediately installed TrueNAS when I got it. Has been running flawlessly since March.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Does it do RAID?

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 points 8 months ago

Well, TrueNAS is a RAID system, and pretty much any Linux distro can run ZFS.

[–] SphericalCow@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

The hardware is good enough to to run TrueNAS with RAID yeah 😄 I have mine using raidz2 and it doesn’t break a sweat. Though I forgot to mention that I also upgraded the RAM to 32GB. The 8GB it comes with are on the lower end of TrueNASs recommendations.