Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks agoIf I was an OEM like Beelink or Servermicro I would be rushing to make an unbranded storage box, five or six 3.5 in SATA hot swap bays in front, 2-4 NVMe ports on the bottom, decent low power CPU, and an SODIMM socket or two. They’d sell a ton of them.
There’s no shortage of alternatives to Synology hardware. People buy Synology because of the software.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Tons of alternatives from other NAS vendors, but I’m not sure anyone makes a Synology type box that is a generic x86 to run your own OS. Plenty of tower server type things but I’m not aware of any little toaster type boxes.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Lots of companies do. Or at the very least they make them to where you can install whatever you want yourself.
HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
You can buy a NAS case, get a cheap matx or itx motherboard and roll your own with ease. Where exactly have you looked?
Here’s one such case: a.co/d/eUz87Mh
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Yeah I actually hadn’t seen that at all. There’s not many of those toaster style NAS cases, that one is fairly big as it needs a full size power supply. What I have in mind though is basically same size and form factor as a Synology DS9xx, 4-6 3.5" bays, main board under or off to the side, 1-2 NVMe slots, low power CPU. Basically clone a Synology DS9xx but put a standard UEFI BIOS on it as well as a video output. I think that would sell pretty well. Especially if you gave it 10 gig ethernet and a CPU that had an AI accelerator.
Could of course build the thing yourself, but it ends up bigger.