![]() ![]() So… Why FreeNAS? FreeNAS is open source, and I can build my own box. I also use my DiskStation as a TIme Machine destination for all the Macs in the house, but that can be done with any NAS. I tried to run Plex, but it requires transcoding to be super useful, and the CPU on the DiskStation isn’t up to the task. In terms of applications I run on my DiskStation, I really only use CloudStation for file syncing across all my devices. And if you do encrypt a shared folder, some features like NFS are disabled. Synology still doesn’t support volume-level encryption either. With the development process for DSM being closed source and them not fixing bugs I submit, I don’t really feel like I can trust their device with my data. Even though all my data is on-prem with a Synology NAS, I still depend on their external service to access it via quickconnect. And furthermore, I got a NAS so I could get away from being dependent on a hosted vendor for my data. This is theoretically a great solution, but the service goes down from time to time. ![]() Speaking of security, all remote NAS access with Synology is being migrated to quickconnect, their solution of giving you a unique ID that lets you acccess your NAS wherever you are, without setting up port forwarding on your router. Their UIs aren’t great, and the functionality isn’t killer. They are supposed to keep me logged in, but I continue to have to re-login on my own. It’s great that Synology has so many mobile applications, but these are buggy as well. They either ignore bugs or introduce new ones with every release, it seems. Cloud Station creates conflict files all the time, it often freezes Finder, etc. For example, iWork files are treated as folders, rather than files, and the internal package contents get updated separately, causing iWork to constantly ask you to re-save the document during use. I have reported these bugs repeatedly, and they still don’t get fixed. For example, how about that time when everyone found bitcoin miners running on their boxes? Their CloudStation solution is great for sync’ing files, but there are still loads of bugs with it, especially on OS X. There have been some major security bugs with Synology. I’ve had my DS1513+ since it was first released, and while it has definitely done its job, there are some things that bother me about it. It’s easy to set up, and Synology Hybrid RAID is auto-expanding and very cool, a la Drobo.They have a suite of applications that can run on DSM.Having a commercial product would keep me from being able to constantly open the NAS up and mess with it. I chose Synology for a multitude of reasons I pondered the options for a long time, and my final decision came down to buying a Synology device or building my own device with FreeNAS. I also wanted to have some kind of home theater strategy with my ripped media. Even before the Snowden controversy, I didn’t love the idea of my files being stored in a cloud like Dropbox. I had been thinking about getting a network attached storage system for years. ![]()
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