moeman

@moeman@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Synology Replacement?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I’ve considered this, and there a few shoddy scripts running on it (the networking setup is terrible; and the script even has variable names in Chinese), but that aside I’m not sure whether that’s of any more of a concern than with any other proprietary manufacturer‘s OS (eg Cisco et al).

  And as other people have said, you can literally throw any other distribution on it and it’s just “dumb” hardware… so I would consider the risk fairly low

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Synology Replacement?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I only have an iOS device, but its app is great and yes, it offers that functionality. So I reckon they wouldn’t have done this just for iOS 😄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Synology Replacement?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha, of course “self-hosted” is the community I comment on for the first time after lurking for years, but …

  UGREEN NASync. I own a DXP4800 Plus, and it fits your descriptions. Its OS is Debian (custom-built; but you can throw your own distribution on it and won’t even lose your warranty, though!), but it has a decent frontend, a mobile app even, 4 SATA3 + 2 NVMe bays, gets regular updates, is accessible via pretty much any protocol under the sun, can be backed up automatically to a lot of cloud storage providers, and I run a bunch of containers on it (which I used docker-compose for), since it ships with first-class support for it.

  Overall, a huge value for its money so far (been running it for a few months), and can definitely recommend it, especially as an alternative to the incumbents like Synology or QNAP, and it’s a lot less power hungry and quieter than just getting a server rack off eBay.