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The Synology End Game

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452 points amacbride | 2 comments | 29 Aug 25 06:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | 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. dvdkon ◴[29 Aug 25 08:37 UTC] No.45061659[source]▶
That's not really comparable hardware. The AS6804T has four 3.5" HDD bays, Synology hardware generally offers two to eight bays. They're NASes, the NUC is just a mini computer with little to no built-in storage capacity. It's not about the apps here.
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2. bayindirh ◴[29 Aug 25 08:39 UTC] No.45061672[source]▶
Plus, 4 SSD slots and 16GB ECC RAM which is upgradeable to 64GB. That thing is a sleeper.