On Fri, 3 Dec 2021, at 11:47, Peter Boy wrote:
Personally, I've been using various Synology models for
longer as a decade now at about the same purposes as you are planning
(and some more, e.g. a mail hub, ebook library, etc), currently a DS
918+ with SSD cache. But keep in mind, it's based on Linux, but in the
end it's a closed, proprietary system.
This works well, but really only as far and as long as you want to do
exactly what Synology applications are for and what the web interface
architects envisioned - and that's pretty basic. As soon as this is no
longer enough (and the chance is quite high after some time of use), it
becomes very difficult and cumbersome.
That's why out-of-the-box support for Docker is a life saver on my Synology. I'm
running plenty of unsupported software that are portable to any other linux system of the
same architecture.
I don't even use any official Synology package when I've got the whole of
Dockerhub at my disposal. I'm running Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, qBittorrent, Jackett all
containerised, going through a VPN container.
So a major selling point for any NAS-buying decision is: does it run Docker?
Stephane.