I just need a simple way to store my data and back it up. I went with a Synology DS1621+ and I also have a DS218j.
Things that really had me questioning my choice:
Both of them are the noisiest enclosures I’ve ever encountered. Rattling all over the place and having to hack the case to stop things from rattling. It drives me crazy. I paid over a thousand dollars for a case that I need to hack to keep my sanity.
Power consumption. The DS1621+ uses 35W at idle, even when the disks are not spun up and another 55W for 6 disks that never spin down (I’ve tried everything). That’s 90W. The idea is that this would run 24/7 but that ends up being over $225/year. This consumes as much power as my 5950X w/ 6800XT at idle. That’s insane to me.
Fear of vendor lockup and restrictions on what I can do with the hardware. Out of the box, Synology doesn’t allow NVMe volumes. I can run a script to enable it, but I really dislike the fact that they are intentionally restricting what I can do with my device.
So I’m downgrading my Ryzen machine to a low power APU and going to use it as an all flash server. Will use TrueNAS and just have my SMB shares. Only going to boot my Synology once a day for a couple hours to back up everything so I have my second copy. The one thing I like about the Synology devices is that it’s super easy to schedule on/off time windows.
So annoyed that I spent all this money on the DS1621+ and it’s just going to act as a backup server. Will probably look to replace the DS1621+ as a backup eventually too.
Turnkey with some serious regrets.
I just need a simple way to store my data and back it up. I went with a Synology DS1621+ and I also have a DS218j.
Things that really had me questioning my choice:
So I’m downgrading my Ryzen machine to a low power APU and going to use it as an all flash server. Will use TrueNAS and just have my SMB shares. Only going to boot my Synology once a day for a couple hours to back up everything so I have my second copy. The one thing I like about the Synology devices is that it’s super easy to schedule on/off time windows.
So annoyed that I spent all this money on the DS1621+ and it’s just going to act as a backup server. Will probably look to replace the DS1621+ as a backup eventually too.