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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.

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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.

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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

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- 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.
  
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