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The Synology End Game

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452 points amacbride | 3 comments | 29 Aug 25 06:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Paul_S ◴[29 Aug 25 10:01 UTC] No.45062182[source]▶
I ran my own NAS for over two decades in some old 4U I got for cheap, using whatever discarded consumer HW I got for free and I never got the point of Synology. Colleague who has one said it's compact. Well, this year I bought one of those gaming cube cases (with space for 10 drives, what do people do with them in gaming pcs? OK, only 8 spaces are actually drawers with grommets but physically you can fit 10) and retired my 4U.

Seriously, takes an hour to setup your own NAS and you can mix any drives, setup any encryption you want, seedbox etc. I totally understand convenience but this is not a email server you're setting up here, it's just a NAS.

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martijn_himself ◴[29 Aug 25 10:10 UTC] No.45062240[source]▶
I'm interested in starting out like this, I have a bunch of 2.5" SSD's I'm not using- do you have any tips on what cube to get? Are you concerned about power usage at all especially if this is always on?
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1. Paul_S ◴[29 Aug 25 10:17 UTC] No.45062282[source]▶
Any of those cube gaming ones I think are great. I got a dual chamber one which makes shuffling drives and cabling easy. Can't remember the name but it was 90 pounds, way more than I paid for the old 4U, although inflation from the 90s probably means it was more expensive in real terms. Most of the power is used to spin rust so not sure it's worth worrying about the HW power use, just use whatever old pc you can get for free, ask colleagues and family, people throw out working PCs all the time, it's a NAS, not a rendering farm, if it boots it's good enough IMHO.
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2. Paul_S ◴[29 Aug 25 10:31 UTC] No.45062341[source]▶
Found the name: Fractal node 804.
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3. martijn_himself ◴[29 Aug 25 12:05 UTC] No.45062961[source]▶
Great- thanks for this.