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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: 0.409s | source
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M95D ◴[29 Aug 25 08:47 UTC] No.45061719[source]▶
But self-building a NAS is still a problem, and I'm also talking about this [1] article from the same blog:

There are NO low power NAS boards. I'm talking about something with an ARM CPU, no video, no audio, lots of memory (or SODIMM slot) and 10+ SATA ports.

Sure, anyone can buy a self-powered USB3 hub and add 7 external HDDs to a raspbery, but that level of performance is really really low, not to mention the USB random disconnects. And no, port replicators aren't much better.

[1] https://lowendbox.com/blog/are-you-recyling-old-hardware-for...

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_zoltan_ ◴[29 Aug 25 09:42 UTC] No.45062063[source]▶
SATA? In 2025? NVMe all the way.
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1. Sebb767 ◴[29 Aug 25 10:22 UTC] No.45062303[source]▶
If you need a lot of (not so fast) storage, 3,5" drives are still by far the best TB per €. For a lot of NAS solutions (backups, video/movie/music storage etc.) their performance is completely fine.

Plus, we're most likely talking about Gigabit networking here, so unless your workload consists of very parallel random access, this is going to be the limiting factor anyway.

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2. _zoltan_ ◴[29 Aug 25 13:52 UTC] No.45064158[source]▶
25 and 100 Gbps is commodity at this point. yes it's a bit of a pain to run fiber in the walls but worth it.