I've been very happy with my Synology, replaced a home built Freenas and lost none of the features/functionality I was using in freenas. Less management overhead, lower power usage. A+++ Would buy again.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 7:03 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Synology runs Linux under the hood. Im running several of them at several > different clients. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jun 21, 2016, at 9:04 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I need a NAS system which includes a two-bay enclosure capable of > > holding two 6TB drives, and I want to start out with just one 6TB > > drive. From my research so far I have determined that Western > > Digital red drives are the best for this application, so the WD > > WD60EFRX drive is at the top of my list. Suggestions for alternatives > > are welcome. > > > > The enclosure, however, is a point of major confusion. It's amazing how > > little actual information manufacturers web site give you. I'm sick of > > reading how many photos of my loved ones I can place on the device. > > > > Since I'm leaning toward the WD drive above, WD enclosures would be > > my first choice. Western Digital sells enclosures, but as far as I can > > tell they only sell them as a unit with drives, i.e., if I buy a two-bay > > enclosure it will come with two drives. > > > > My major confusions about the enclosures are about all the various > > software features that they come with. My house is wired with Cat6 > > ethernet, but all my computers are Linux only. None of the web sites > > tell me much about the software on the enclosure. But maybe I just need > > to plan to nuke the software the enclosure comes with and replace it > > with open source bits. > > > > I need some education. > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
