synology alternative

Xpenology + hotswap case.

It's possible to be on the current release of synology software.

>>61075827
whoa - DSM is open-source?!?

When you say hotswap tower, are you suggesting that I have the boards in a different case, and keep the drives isolated?

>>61075827
What is a good hotswap case? I thought about sticking a sata drive rack in a consumer case, but the market has been filled with driveless memeshit.

>>61075894
it's not open source, it's just been modified to work on most hardware configs.
The only 12 hdd consumer case i can think of would be the cosmos.

Have you considered getting a 4u chassis?

>>61076096
or even a 2u with dual backplane

>>61076096
thanks anon, unfortunately I'm not in a position to have a rack so the 4U option won't work. Thanks for mentioning coolermaster; the 'trooper' looks promising!

>>61075980
Supermicro has this nice 8 bay but see above - cursory glance reports the 'trooper' is 14 bay?

https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/7046/SYS-7046A-T.cfm

>>61076297
spoke too soon - trooper is not hot-swap; not necessarily a deal breaker, but disappointing.

>>61076297
>>61076307
Thanks, anon. I feel silly now that I understand that I should be looking at workstation cases.

Not OP but this interests me as well.

I'm in a similar situation and we have two synology boxes with atom c2000 inside waiting to fail on me.

Reading a little on freenas (zfs one?)

But can you transfer configuration files from synology to xpenology?

>>61075772
You might want to consider getting a tower with 6/9/9+ 5.25" bays and some of the Supermicro 5-in-3 hotswap adapter bays.

Works pretty well for incremental addition of 4+1 RAID5/ZFS1 arrays, and a fair bit cheaper than just buying a rackmount high drive count chassis.

>>61075772
Are there any NAS cases similar to op's picture?
Racks are too noisy for home use and towers don't usually hold 12 3.5" drives without being too large.

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>>61077490
Yes there are some that look similar like the UNAS NSC-800 case (pic related)

They are however hard to build in and have some ventilation problems.

>>61077165
Yes they are literally the same BUT keep in mind xpenology is a bit behind in terms of updates and you need to watch out when updating xpenology as some major updates might break your system.

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>>61078110
If you really need 12bays you could buy one of these cases with all front 5.25" bays and put in one of these hotswap bays that consume 3 5.25" bays and allow you to put in 5 3.5" drives.

Second post here:
RSV-L4412 case is 12 bay hot swap 4U. Not the best overall but acceptable for the price.

>>61077490
So they're missing hot-swap and LEDs, but I'm liking these cases, so far:
http://www.streacom.com/products/f12c-chassis/
http://nanoxia-world.com/en/products/cases/

>>61075772
I think when folks are looking at the same setup as yours; they find the solution in old, surplus and refurbished server equipment off Ebay.

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>>61075772
OP, keep being a lazy bastard. I know I am.

>>61075772
You can fit 12 3.5 inch drives in a NZXT h440, excellent case, but if you really do put in all 12 it'll be dense in there.