Thanks for that, good insights. Interesting to hear about noise and power consumption of these devices because that’s supposed to be a selling point. As you said, disappointing considering the price tag.
I am leaning more towards DIY now…
Haha sorry! I realised that after I submitted and had to vote randomly myself to see the results…
Hmm yeah good point about seeing the cost of Synology in the software.
I’d be in a similar situation where my NAS would be NAS only, regardless of being DIY or prebuilt. I have a couple of NUCs/micro PCs that I run things on - one of them is my “NAS” for the moment.
Yeah to me cost is a big factor, but probably equal with freedom. I see the price of a prebuilt NAS (diskless!) and I can’t help but think of what could be achieved with the same money on a DIY system that has the benefits of being upgradable and flexible.
One other factor is that with a DIY maybe I would be too tempted to tinker with a system that should not be tinkered with and just create more work for myself haha
Yeah my old job was always decomissioning stuff and I had to stop taking it because my grilfriend was not impressed by the pile of old tech collecting dust that I was “doing something with”. Lots of old workstations but never any old server hardware… which was a good thing because I would have taken it and there’s definitely not the space for it in my appartment.
I currently have a jerry-rigged “NAS” made out of some odds and ends that I use to store my linux iso collection. It’s getting full and I wouldn’t trust it with my personal files anyway. So it’s time to bite the bullet and add a real dedicated NAS that’s not going to fall over (physically and metaphorically) at the slightest touch.
I’ve been lurking on r/homelab for a while, and I was after homelab answers haha. I wanted to hear from people who have similar interests to me, and I got the range of perspectives I was hoping for! If I wasn’t a such a nerd then I’d go out and buy a Synology box right now.