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Synology DSM is indeed fantastic. I'm spoiled now. Having tried, in the past: server 2012, freenas and netgear's Raidar; no way am I going to leave DSM. It's much much easier to configure and maintain (if at all) than the others i listed.
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So sounds like there is actually a significant difference, or is likely to be; appreciate the feedback! I may still do the homebrew, which if I do it will also be more expensive (because I will overspend), more or less for the hell of it, but that gives me a somewhat better sense of what I'd be getting myself into.
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If you go home brew don't forget about unRAID. It's very good.
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Even if I get a synology can I get another device just for transcoding Movies?
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I use OpenMediaVault. I've never used Synology DSM but I would believe the people here in what they say about it. I have it set up with mergerfs and SnapRAID (both plugins through OMV-Extras plugin repository) with 4x4TB drives, a number of docker containers. After initial setup, I don't have to administer too much. Just the occasional update since version 3 is still technically beta, but rather stable (thanks Debian). My only real complaint is that I can't update docker images from their repositories easily or at least I haven't found it. Not that I need to do it all the time though.
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caberham posted:Even if I get a synology can I get another device just for transcoding Movies? I do this - I have a media server with my Synology shares automounted over nfs, and it does all the heavy lifting of transcoding via Plex
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Synology NAS with a Shield TV for a Plex server and client. I'm the worst IT guy.
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Internet Explorer posted:Synology NAS with a Shield TV for a Plex server and client. Homebrew was cool before I did IT for a living, now... why would I want to janitor at home when I janitor at work? This is why I'm looking at picking up an 1817+. That and because I'd rather spend my time labbing my environment, and not tweaking my storage.
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Internet Explorer posted:Synology NAS with a Shield TV for a Plex server and client. Nah. You just don't want to cj at home. I get it. I probably would have went that way if I didn't inherit a bunch of 6TB drives from work when the company went belly up.
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BoyBlunder posted:I do this - I have a media server with my Synology shares automounted over nfs, and it does all the heavy lifting of transcoding via Plex caberham posted:Even if I get a synology can I get another device just for transcoding Movies? Internet Explorer posted:Synology NAS with a Shield TV for a Plex server and client.
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Those 8TB WD easystores that have Reds inside are back at $159 at Best Buy.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:Those 8TB WD easystores that have Reds inside are back at $159 at Best Buy. Fuck. Now do I need 2 or 3...
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Moey posted:Fuck. Now do I need 2 or 3... X, where X is the number of 3.5" bays in your NAS. Edit: A couple weeks down the road now, my drives are working like a champ. They're running a touch hotter than my Toshibas did, and they're noticeably louder when seeking, but not enough to be annoying to me.
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Whats the normal price on those Easystore's again?
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MSRP is $299. I don't think I've ever seen them that high though. I seem to recall $229 being the "normal" price, and most of the sale prices prior to the sale before this current one were $179.
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Edit: decided to be lazy and got the syno.
Nude Hoxha Cameo fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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G-Prime posted:X, where X is the number of 3.5" bays in your NAS. I have a unique setup. Currently running 2x8tb archive drives for my media storage, synced nightly. Planning on either going 3x8tb raid 5 and backing up to the existing 2x8tb archive drives spanned. Other option is spanning 2x8tb reds and backing up to the same archive drives.
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Okay, so I upgraded to FreeNAS 11 from Corral. I'm really not impressed. A couple of features I miss: Supporting Console/KVM access for VMs (they have VNC but its not nearly as nice as just opening another tab for graphical KVM access) Boot2Docker Integration Visual Interface (the Beta really isn't anywhere near as mature as the Corral one either, and it doesn't look anywhere near as good.) Visual ZFS Management They should've just stuck to Corral despite the team losses. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Aug 20, 2017 |
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Those things (and the immense laziness I feel every time I think about having to redo all of my containers) are what's stopped me from going and doing it myself. Corral is fine, so long as you're not doing serious power user stuff. It absolutely has some problems, but it's working day to day without any issues for me, so I'm sticking with it. In another 6 months or so, 11 will likely have reached feature parity with Corral, and I'll try to make the time to do a fresh install, but for now, this works for me.
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G-Prime posted:Those things (and the immense laziness I feel every time I think about having to redo all of my containers) are what's stopped me from going and doing it myself. Corral is fine, so long as you're not doing serious power user stuff. It absolutely has some problems, but it's working day to day without any issues for me, so I'm sticking with it. In another 6 months or so, 11 will likely have reached feature parity with Corral, and I'll try to make the time to do a fresh install, but for now, this works for me. I'm seriously considering rolling back. Not a fan of 11 at all. The BHYVE implementation on Corral was way better and more ingrained, and re-gaining jails just wasn't really worth the switch.
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My biggest beef with Corral is actually its best feature not being implemented exactly how I want it. Their Docker support is really smooth except for one very specific thing: Upgrading containers. You have to delete and fully recreate them, which is a pain in the ass if you set up custom environment variables and networking configuration. That's the big thing that jails have over it. If they just had an export button so I could dump my configs to yaml or something, and then import them back in, I'd be happy as a clam. Likely what I'll end up doing is rolling a standalone VM instead of their boot2docker implementation and just running my stuff on there via docker-compose, because that's how I do stuff elsewhere.
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G-Prime posted:My biggest beef with Corral is actually its best feature not being implemented exactly how I want it. Their Docker support is really smooth except for one very specific thing: Upgrading containers. You have to delete and fully recreate them, which is a pain in the ass if you set up custom environment variables and networking configuration. That's the big thing that jails have over it. If they just had an export button so I could dump my configs to yaml or something, and then import them back in, I'd be happy as a clam. I wish they'd just let someone fork Corral and fix the very minor issues.
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So MS decided to remove REFS from Windows 10 Pro, I don't know who runs it here but just a heads up: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/201...orkstation-sku/
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That seems thoroughly pointless.
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Ah yes, millions of SKUs. Excellent.
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They want to split Pro into Pro and Pro Workstation. God, they are really desperate to cash in.
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Was anyone in here running REFS for their home storage?
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I did on my Storage Spaces mirrors back when I still used it.
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Crashplan is killing off their Home service: https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/consumer/nextsteps/ What are good alternatives? I don't need unlimited but it would be nice if the backup service ran in Docker.
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Haha, that's mean. I mean, didn't they make it on home users?
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Backblaze is good
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Moey posted:Was anyone in here running REFS for their home storage? I used to run server 2012 with refs on my home HP micro server. But fuck CJing that, synology supremacy now.
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Recycled Karma posted:Crashplan is killing off their Home service: https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/consumer/nextsteps/ Yeah, that's shitty, especially because the client was also good for computer-to-computer backup.
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I just renewed a couple weeks ago so I've got a year to figure something out... I've always thought a neat idea would be something that encrypts your shit and uploads it to usenet.
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Fucking Crashplan. I guess it's time to Synology all the things.
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I just got my email on it - looks like since my account still has well over a year left on it, they'll upgrade me to Small Business after October 2018 and then 75% off the next year of service. I wonder how that will impact (I'm assuming it will break) my computers that back up to each other instead of the cloud.
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Looks like they're killing off computer-to-computer backups entirely, that was my primary way of using it. Guess I'll have to buy a couple more Arq licenses now, either that or Macrium Reflect. ![]()
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Dammit! I knew the Crashplan gravy train was gonna end some day. Granted, it did last a lot longer than I thought it would.
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Does anyone offer anything like Crashplan's family plan? Backing up to my server isn't a huge deal, but it was nice to throw my mom's and wife's computers on my plan without having to decide if it was worth $50 a year or not to back up a couple gigabytes of data.
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rsync them to a folder on your server, backup from there? Most users don't generate gigabytes of stuff on the fly which is worth backing up so differential-wise it should be pretty manageable even if they're not in the same location.
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