Just bought this

50/50, it's fine if you don't want to know how it works or go beyond its capabilities. But it's weak hardware-wise.

just think of all the filing cabinets you could have bought instead of that $400 paperweight.

What's the problem with security exploits?

why are you even on Jow Forums?

don't worry about it

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Have fun fixing it when it craps-out in a few years.

I mean, how bad it is with synology devices?

nothing to worry, famalam

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>How bad did I fuck up?
you won't know until that proprietary hardware has some sort of failure, and you have to figure out a solution

These things are dumb as fuck
Just get a free used computer and use that instead. Any old used core2 system with 512MB of RAM or more is better than this proprietary shit.

Hey fellow swissfag. Its ok, but personally I think DIY is a better option if you get how to set up Linux.

Synology's web UI isn't bad, but running arbitrary packages like, IDK, borgbackup tends to be an arsepain in the long run.

Plus of course you can build even a decent 6+ drive NAS box cheaper than that.

Why do people in this day and age buy Synology when QNAP exists?

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It's likely not THAT bad since it runs Linux and the drives can be used with a Linux box.

I'd recommend against the old core2 because of power costs in 24/7 use. If you only wake it, transfer a backup for 30 minutes a month and shut it down again, it will be ok of course. Else, get some ARM SBC or an onboard intel or something for $100 or less. It'll be cheaper than running a 100w or whatever core2.

>I'd recommend against the old core2 because of power costs in 24/7 use
this is the same bullshit retards like you always spout
the delta is probably only a couple cents per month in power. you make up for that by not using cucked proprietary hardware

Either is just an expensive alternative to a better box that you can build cheaper and upgrade and repair more extensively and deploy more software on.

> Inb4 but that has an extra 3cm of space consumption

>he delta is probably only a couple cents per month in power
Most of the older non-laptop Core2 will run at like 60-70W average.

That is 50W more than a modern NAS or ARM board, it'll cost you ~$50 / year even by US prices and probably twice as much in the EU.

It's also more work, more power draw, more cables, more space taken up.
Idiots like you never learn.

>Most of the older non-laptop Core2 will run at like 60-70W average.
bullshit
>it'll cost you ~$50 / year even by US prices and probably twice as much in the EU
so cheaper than the cost of the synnology box

thanks for making my point

You pay with your time, though. I spent several months, probably equivalent to a work week, to set up everything, including:
- scripts for deniable header-less encryption with LUKS
- initramfs hooks to built initrd w/decryption key
- init scripts for rtorrent
- Samba
and then some time to reconfigure it for RAID.
In the meantime, OP paid for a neat box which supports DLNA, LDAP and Docker with all of its applications.

>facebook

>I spent several months, probably equivalent to a work week, to set up everything
that's because you're a retard

>bullshit
If I look for core 2 idle power among images, I get this. It's much worse.

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i meant to delete that part.
you're still saving money with a free used computer by your own admission

>so cheaper than the cost of the synnology box
Not nearly cheaper than an ARM SBC for 2 drives or a NAS box other than this one over a expected life span of 4-8 years [you'll probably use it until the drives fail or the drives are obsolete].

You don't have to buy a $300 2 disk NAS box btw.

Thanks. It's always nice to read such warm words.

Either way 2bays are the most pointless shit for media storage. Just connect an external hdd to your router, or keep your desktop on 24x7.
4bays are reasonably priced while adding raid 5 capability
6+bays are way overpriced

the whole fucking home server meme...

just stick another drive in your computer and be done with it. No bullshit setup, no parasitic power draw.

YMMV on that one too.

If it has a fat gaymen / 3D rendering / ... GPU inside for your interactive use, you might not want that same machine running 24/7 for hosting web pages, torrents, receiving backups and hosting file pools for your other devices.

They have their niche. I'd probably gift one to a family who need backups, RAID1 and it's good.
I had that setup. And then I attached 1 HDD to a router. And then bought two Microservers because just about that time my government stated that hentai = CP and basically I don't want to give anybody any possibility to look into my devices. Who knows what law they'll introduce tomorrow.

too poor to pay for power
but enough money to spend on proprietary cuckoldry

thanks for telling us about your cheese pizza repository
I'm not sure how that information relates to any protections for you
mkultra and rubber hoses and all

The amount of images and music and backups most people want to store is smaller than a mediocre or even cheap HDD, so it's really most likely they just need two of them so the disks have some redundancy.

Hentai and manga isn't pizza.
> how that information relates to any protections for you
You're just short sighted. Obviously whoever made that up can make other retarded decisions, like MLP porn = CP because ponies represent young girls... But wait, they've done that already. Something else then.

>too poor to pay for power
I'd eventually be poor if I didn't try to optimize a few hundred dollars away when I can.

> enough money to spend on proprietary cuckoldry
It's even cheaper if you use a only very mildly proprietary (as little as any normal PC can be) ARM SBC or build an x86_64 box with a more recent lower power consumption onboard CPU.

>transcoding

all I'm advising is not using the proprietary piece of shit hardware

if you want to plunk down extra money for more power efficient computer than what you can get for free, that's great

Most NAS appliances have a proprietary web UI and some shit like that, but you generally get easy root on the Linux boxes that they are, so it's not all bad.

But sure, build a standard PC. I'd just not recommend using older machines unless you can show they actually consume little power.

Not all routers accept storage via USB. Mine has a USB 2.0 port, but it's mainly for printers.

what do you need transcoding for?

For not much more than that I've built this off eBay used parts and local sources from friends/Craiglist for around $500. I currently have six 2TB SAS drives and could expand it to 14 + 1 hot spare in the drive rack I have. I could also add up to 5 more storage racks on the same HBA controller if I needed to.

Also just to piss off Jow Forums the Dell R610 server that is running the NAS is running freenas and the drives are configured in 3 drive raidz pools for ease of expansion later. Let's see how many of you have something to say about that lol.

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that's nice and all but I got a small NAS for around 150 bucks recently which isn't much larger than the HDDs it encloses. I just don't have an empty cabinet where I could put a fucking rack.

Then I'd have to leave my computer on to stream to other devices or seed my torrents.

You didn't. a bit expensive but it does the job pretty good.

They work well. Just DON'T connect it directly to the interwebs -- firewall that shit, Synology's security has always been sketch.

I have a 4 bay one the ds418 I belive. Had it for half a year maybe. So far so good. I bought it because I don't want to play around with hardware or software and it just werks. And synology has a tutorial to recover your array on ubuntu if it dies and you don't want to buy another.

I've had DS215j for 3 years with no problems, but I only use it to store my shit and seed torrents.
Recently replaced it with DS218j and 10TB WD Red disks.

>proprietary piece of shit hardware
You mean proprietary piece of shit hardware like intel cpus, asmedia sata or realtek lan? Or undocumented chink spy chips attached to the motherboard?

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