Since I also want to use my NAS as a media server, I checked Plex’s compatibility spreadsheet and saw that the DS 920+ has some of the best support for hardware transcoding among the Synology options in its price range. I ended up with the DiskStation DS 920+ after running a few different scenarios through the Synology NAS selector. Years of dawdling and ruminating on options weren’t getting me any closer to a solution. Easy to buy, easy to set up, easy to maintain. Ultimately, what pushed me to Synology was that it’s the easy option. Synology setup is practically idiot-proof, and the company makes it easy to set up two-factor authentication and a domain name for your server.While Synology NAS units aren’t cheap, they’re reasonably priced compared to other solutions.The new Synology Photos app is awesome, and it’s probably the closest self-hosted photo management (if not editing) solution you can find to Apple’s Photos.The company makes the most popular NAS devices, which means they’re well documented and it’s easy to get help.Other than supply chain hiccups, I chose Synology for the following reasons: Plus, I hate how every QNAP app starts with a Q. But again, the QNAP model I wanted wasn’t in stock. Wirecutter says that some of their units perform better than Synology’s, and QNAP has a feature called QFiling that acts like the Mac app Hazel, which automatically reorganizes files based on your specifications. QNAP also has some advantages over Synology. I wanted something that would work out of the box with minimal fiddling. Since TrueNAS is open source, I could have built my own server or repurposed some hardware, but with three kids and a farm, I don’t have time for yet another project. However, the TrueNAS Mini X model I wanted was out of stock, and TrueNAS units are more expensive than Synology’s. I would have preferred a TrueNAS setup since TrueNAS is open source. Why did I choose Synology over the other options on the market, namely QNAP and TrueNAS? The primary answer is that the DS 920+ was in stock when I was shopping, while comparable QNAP and TrueNAS units were not. A NAS makes even more sense for a small office where multiple people might be running into the same problems with needing easy access to a centralized set of files. Your files are right there in your home and you don’t have to transfer them over the Internet to carry over your work to another device. It’s still a big investment in both money and time, but it’s well worth it if you have a lot of data you access from multiple computers. Running a home server isn’t for everyone, but Synology makes doing so about as accessible as possible, and you can be up and running within an hour. The entire setup cost about $1000, but after a month of usage, I think the investment has been well worth it, even though I’m still in the process of transferring decades of data to the DS 920+. A NAS is a big investment, but what finally kicked me into action was the recent iCloud outage, when I realized that my Mac had offloaded many of my important documents to iCloud and I couldn’t access them for about 2 hours.Īfter some research, I purchased a Synology DS 920+ and four 6 TB WD Red hard drives.
I knew I needed a home server, specifically a networked-attached storage (NAS) device, but I hemmed and hawed for years. I needed a better solution for local storage for this effort because my old system consisted of multiple external hard drives attached to my iMac, which was messy and made it hard to access files from other devices. #1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announcedįor a few years now, I’ve been wanting to move more of my data out of the cloud and onto my own local storage.1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blind.#1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook.#1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.
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