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Synology vs Custom build? Am I doing it wrong? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Illuminated_Humanoid@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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I have owned my Synology NAS and enjoyed self-hosting with it for about 2 years now. I never self-hosted before owning it, so this is all I know. The only reason I purchased one in the first place was because of my discovery of Plex media server. Plex was great on PC for the first little bit until I realized I was outgrowing my ability to reliably host it for myself and family to enjoy and that's what forced me to find a dedicated solution, which led me to the Synology NAS.

I wonder to myself sometimes if I would be better off building my own system with my own parts. What has stopped me I think mostly is sacrificing the Synology DSM OS, which I really do like and find good value in. I know there are Linux distros for specific NAS needs, but I haven't had any experience with them to know if it's a good choice for self-hosting.

Is Synology NAS the way?
What do you have?
How do you like it?
Are you planning to change your setup?

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[–] Xiakit@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I started with Syno, selfhosting more and more, then switched to containers. After that bought a dedicated mini PC for the more CPU intensive tasks and migrated the containers to it. The data resides on the Nas and the rest is on the mini server.