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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 22:39:24 JST goatsarah

   Anyone know about Synologies?

   I have a Drobo 5N2, which is obviously orphanware.

   I want a Synology to do much the same job. What should I get?

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 00:40:22 JST goatsarah

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     • mobbsy
     @mobbsy I just want it to serve files on a RAID. Got other stuff for generic server things.
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     mobbsy (mobbsy@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 00:40:23 JST mobbsy

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     @goatsarah I got a DS1019+ (in 2019) to replace my Drobo 5N. It's Just Worked since, but I'm not doing anything very complicated with it.

     Looks like the closest current model is the DS1522+ (although that's 2022 hardware).

     I like that the storage is just a pile of Linux and can be recovered on any PC.

     I tried using it as a general Linux server, it's doable but the OS is a bit too opinionated to make that pleasant. Now it's just NFS mounted to a separate Debian box, as well as CIFS shares.