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  • Very true, but I like my NAS to be maintenance-free, and Synology delivers on that. Their apps work out of the box and are installed with basically one click. I fiddle with tech enough at my job, I like my private tech to just work.

    Even as a power-user you can do a lot, the synology nas also runs docker, so you can run whatever you’d like on it, not just the synology provided services.

    Expanding the hardware is kind of a pain, even with RAM they are kind of weird and you need some approved (synology-brand) ram, or need to fiddle with some system files to make it accept any ram.

    Also i’d love if they went with zfs instead of their llvm + btrfs.


  • A really cool do-it-all Option to de-google / de-cloud yourself is to buy a synology NAS. They come with all the cloud stuff you want, it works really well out of the box:

    • Synology Drive for synced files, sharing files / folders with friends etc.
    • Synology Office (Integrated into Drive)
    • Synology Photos does the photo backup from your mobile devices
    • Synology Calendar for calendar syncing etc

    That way you’re not moving from one cloud provider to another one you might or might not trust, but you host it all yourself.