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The Synology End Game

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452 points amacbride | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 06:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.23s | source
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bayindirh ◴[29 Aug 25 08:13 UTC] No.45061490[source]▶
I'm looking for a NAS for a very long time (budget, size, network, etc.), but when I was ready to pull the trigger on a Synology, they did this, and I dodged a bullet.

Long story short, I'll be buying an ASUSTOR AS6804T, and if I don't like the software, I'll just install TrueNAS on it. It's not only officially supported, they have a full length video showing the process. They don't provide tech support, but eh.

Icing on the cake? The eMMC storing the original firmware sits on its own USB port, so you disable that port, and both disable and protect the firmware from being overwritten.

If you want to return to original firmware, enable the port, remove the TrueNAS SSD, and viola!

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ramon156 ◴[29 Aug 25 08:20 UTC] No.45061540[source]▶
Does just getting an intel NUQ not suffice? i bought one for 180 and it works great. runnint ~16 apps + an MC server and no issues
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1. bayindirh ◴[29 Aug 25 08:28 UTC] No.45061602[source]▶
I already have an infrastructure like that. Mine is running Debian Stable, a couple of containers for background jobs and a couple of daemons.

However, I need to backup a lot of things, and ensure that they don't bitrot. A decade old photography archive, meticulously ripped CD libraries, a full cloud storage backup, etc. etc. Plus I don't want to dig disks to get a single file which I don't want to put on somebody else's computer (i.e. cloud storage).

This needs a two tiered solution. Flash based hot-data area for the running daemons and a spinning array for backups. Both RAID (to be able to scrub and repair bitrot).

The problem is, I'm a sysadmin. I see & use big storage systems and know what they are capable of. I want the personally useful subset of this at home. Plus I want to make it accessible to other people at home, so their files will be safe, too.

This means at least TrueNAS and 4-6 disks to begin with.