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Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet (www.guru3d.com)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Just wanted to say thanks for this, I’ve gone down a whole rabbit hole of NAS devices and I think I can cover my needs and my whole family with N.2 storage. Something along the lines of 12 TB should be enough so 4 *4tb (one redundant) may be the best option and I’m a stickler for power consumption, so a little N150 can probably run everything for less than 20w.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Hey, I'm glad you found it helpful. I run a lot on my N100.

    • A DNS hole for privacy and ad blocking
    • Audiobookshelf for all my audiobooks, because screw Amazon and Audible
    • Copyparty for simple file management/transfer, as I don't need a full office suite like Nextcloud
    • Jellyfin for my films/series
    • Linkding for managing bookmarks
    • Navidrome for my music library

    As well as some extra services mostly for utility reasons, a reverse proxy, some headless game servers, etc. The applications don't all do things at the same time, e.g. Jellyfin isn't sitting and transcoding 100% of the time, so the only time it's really loaded down is when a lot of people connect to a game server.

    My only advice would be to maybe check the price/performance difference between the N100 and the N150. I was initially going for the N150 as well, but found that paying double for the marginal performance difference of the N150 just wasn't worth it for me. I spent the savings on more storage instead.

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