are specialized NAS devices a meme?

cheaper and more customizable to build your own

prebuilts are never cheaper you cuck

>>55758408
Synology is bretty gud if you're a casual. DIY will always be better if you are know what you are doing

I have an 8 bay Synology, all filled with 3tb Reds in RAID6.

It's mouthbreather-tier to set up, but has some nice built in features to keep the more advanced users interested. Having a ready-to-use hardware RAID box is pretty nice I have to admit; just shove drives in and it does everything else.

>>55758408
They're good for people who have no storage architecture experience.

>>55758408
If you browse /g/ there is no reason why you would buy yourself a something like that.

Maintaining a NAS on your own is a huge pain in the ass even if you know what you're doing. I bought a four bay synology because it just fucking werks(tm).

why would you need a serious storage solution in your house do you have fiber and a datacenter in your garage or something

Don't commercial NAS boxes save up on power consumption considerably more than built ones?
I guess the downside though is piss poor performance and inflated price

>>55758408
yeah, any mouthbreather can throw together a mITX atom box with a HBA in a Fractal Design HTPC case nowadays and save themselves the $1000

>>55758408
Been down the Synology and WD NAS paths.
WD - never again!
Synology just werks with loads of options (we bserver, mail server, GIT, etc...)
Power efficient, easy to set up.
Been working as sysadmin 15+ years, pc owner since 1981; don't have time for a homebrew and Synology just hits the sweet spot...

>>55758451
My time learning to set them up isn't cheap, having something you just put hard drives in is worth it to some people that are lazy or busy

If you are neither, go for it build until your heart is content

I do generally agree that customization of a server/nas is a good thing, and cheaper for enterprise grade equipment, but for consumer/prosumer grade shovelware its cheaper to buy something off the shelf

Show me a build that does what one of those 4 bay units does for cheaper, while having most of the hardware features, since software can be done with plug-ins/programs/other more robust software solutions

>>55761368
Not him but cheap is a bad fucking thing for storage. You don't want to go cheap, you want to go for the best if you care about your data.
To my knowledge Synology does _not_ offer an advanced file system like ZFS with protection against bit rot. I would not trust my main data storage with anything but at least a raid Z2.

>>55758408
Why dont you fucks just run a nas daemon on your computer?

>>55758408
For normie use, specialised NAS is better. Less setup time, uses less power and tends to last longer.
I you want cheap/special/stupidly fast - custom is the way.

>>55758408

Yes. I have a 4-bay Q-NAP, I find their OS clunky as fuck and most of the 'features' are gimmiky shit. It's slow as fuck for doing simple tasks and the disk management and hardware RAID sucks. It's shit for VM's despite 'supporting' them. The hardware is very limited in upgrades.

I'm going to sell it and build my own tower like I should have done in the first place.

>>55758408
Your entire life is a fucking meme.

>>55758408
It's efficient energy-wise, I don't now a homebrew NAS that can be that efficient.

Bought a Dell T20 Server for cheap, with a 4TB HGST NAS, 16GB of ECC RAM and FreeNAS. It stores my data, is an emby media server, downloads from the Usenet and a DYNDNS server for my domain. I'm no expert, so it took a while to configure but i'm very satisfied now,

synology is the weird product for people too poor for freenas, but have enough money to spend on a nas.

>>55758408
They have their advantages, mostly because they can work straight out of the box with minimal configuration.

If you need something more specialized, need better guarantees on data integrity, or you need something cheaper, DIY will be usually be better.

>>55761536
Synology has btrfs support now.

>>55759549
>it just werks
>I know what I'm doing tho
>>55761368
>My time learning to set them up isn't cheap
>got time for pedo image boards tho
please, there's no need to lie on the internet

>>55758408
>is X a meme?
Fucking kill yourself.

>>55764225
Just explaining pleb logic