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beaviskhan | 10 months ago

> The premium they ask is substantial. You can spec out a beefy Dell PowerEdge with a ton of drive bays for cheap and install TrueNAS, and you’ll likely be much happier.

Yeah, but then you have a PowerEdge with all the noise and heat that goes along with it. I have an old Synology 918 sitting on my desk that is so quiet I didn't notice when the AC adapter failed. I noticed only because my (docker-app-based) cloud backups failed and alerted me.

Unless Synology walks back this nonsense, I'll likely not buy another one, but I do think there is a place for this type of box in the world.

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Shank|10 months ago

> Unless Synology walks back this nonsense, I'll likely not buy another one, but I do think there is a place for this type of box in the world.

I would recommend a mini-ITX NAS enclosure or a prebuilt system from a vendor that makes TrueNAS boxes. iXSystems does sell prebuilt objects but they’re still pricey.