On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 11:37 PM Frederic Muller <fred(a)cm17.com> wrote:
On 12/3/21 23:30, Stephane Travostino wrote:
> That's why out-of-the-box support for Docker is a life saver on my Synolog
Hi!
I've had a Synology with 4 x 4TB drive for about 4 years and am very
happy with it. Please note however that not all Synology NASes support
Docker. Mine doesn't.
So this is something you need to verify before purchase if you want
Docker and pick a Synology.
I use Pfsense for firewalling (on a Protectli), Synology for exclusively
my backups and Truenas with a more powerful machine for all my other NAS
needs.
I guess the Synology was a good and easy start into the NAS world for me.
Hope that helps.
Fred
Like others here, I have a Synology box. Little guy -- 2 drives
-- bought probably in 2012. Its power brick died and I slapped another
one with more amps. I have upgraded its drives at least 2x. It allows
me to run NFS, SMB (theoretically; never did), iSCSI, and even act as
Time Machine server for my Macs. I can also create and resize logical
volumes just fine. And most of this is done from command line.
Different from others, I use it only for export fileshares and LUNs.
IMHO, a fileserver/NAS/SAN should just do that. I have another box
which has no issues mounting shares from it to run docker containers
on. Or mounting LUNs to run VMs.
If I were to replace it with something more powerful, I would start
with FreeNAS and add the drives and network cards.