Synology DSM is a really good OS. I just wished they gave the option to buy a license key and run it on my own hardware. But with the markup they put on their underpowered units I don't see that happening.
@SpaceRexWill
8 ай бұрын
I would absolutely love that. Especially their virtual machine manager
@TheFreestyleStorm
8 ай бұрын
@@SpaceRexWilli would pay an absurd amount of money to run on my own hardware. I'm very sad 😢
@Haldi4803
7 ай бұрын
Xpenology
@TheFreestyleStorm
7 ай бұрын
@@Haldi4803 tried it. Doesn't run great
@userslinx6865
3 ай бұрын
@@Haldi4803 Xpenology is "Synology DSM" without a LICENSE so more on "dark/grey" side. So no OFFICIAL support. Even "Open source" are in play... I am no here to debate. I am not the best knowing to tell you too. But all know what it imply if you know what is "Xpenology" (Google your is best friend).
@TysDigitalVideoTreasures
Ай бұрын
I actually upgraded from my 2015 FreeNas Mini (running TrueNas) to Synology this week thanks to your videos. I actually purchased two, DS923+ for my in-laws, and DS1621+ for myself. I also followed the setup and suggested settings from your other videos and many of your recommendations made perfect sense. Thanks for making this transition to Synology so easy. Much appreciated!
@pierrelambert446
8 ай бұрын
Love your video, I was hesitant between truenas and Synology for my home lab. I now have a better view of the difference.
@starfoxBR77
8 ай бұрын
Great video as aways. I appreciate the work you put for supporters!
@SpaceRexWill
8 ай бұрын
Hey thank you so much for being a member man! really appreciate it -Will
@IntoxicatedVortex
8 ай бұрын
#6 Synology tech support services - Nothing is perfect and when things don't go right their ability to help, for both the software and hardware, is a huge differentiator for me. For instance, being sent a replacement NAS/device before needing to return the RMA unit back, or needing to go through a reseller at all, is hugely valuable when you need to maximise uptime and to minimise risk. Granted this isn't available for all models and/or requires an extended warranty but this always makes me nervous with the DIY hardware route.
@ringspanner
8 ай бұрын
Before you started SpaceRex, evidently there were certain protocols to be followed. Due diligence and advice would have been paramount, for example: 'As your attorney, I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. And you’ll need the cocaine. Tape recorder for special music. Acapulco shirts.' Joking aside, I was gifted a 4 bay synology NAS when my employer upgraded, and have learned so much from your channel. Thank you, love and respect from Australia.
@BabaDka
8 ай бұрын
I like my TrueNas. My 2015 ASRock C2550D4I MB died, I was able to replace with a supermicro MB, upload my backup config and I was up and running.
@MG87-es4qj
8 ай бұрын
For Years, I have used Synology it is a software leader in SOHO DSM. Agree with all of your points. Hopefully with TrueNas Scale (linux) vs Core (BSD), the software development will accelerate and provide a more mainstream DSM alternative.
@philippemiller4740
8 ай бұрын
Happy holidays to you and your wife 😊❤️🎅🎄
@BoraHorzaGobuchul
8 ай бұрын
I'm sure he's having grand holidays with all those shirts of his. They're so festive:) Dude knows how to decompress, apparently.
@jefferysmith5921
10 күн бұрын
I was running TruNAS for a couple of years. Highly available, no issues. Switched over to Synology mostly because of the power draw having a full size machine on 24x7 verses the Synology doing the same. Also Synology is just easier to manage. I have a few Synology units making replication and backup pretty easy.
@maxbarko8717
8 ай бұрын
I have a Synology for several years now and still so happy with it.
@michael-4k4000
2 ай бұрын
What’s the difference between Synology and just using multiple hard drives? Am new to this.
@maxbarko8717
2 ай бұрын
@@michael-4k4000 The Synology NAS is a server. That means it is a computer that is designed to provide services to you. One major service is storage and making your data accessible from different locations (your own cloud). It has its own operating system and apps. The drives can be combined for more storage and made fail safe. That means if one disk breaks no data will be lost and you just replace the disk. This is called RAID.
@rabahfdoul4844
8 ай бұрын
Nice video mate, thanks for making the effort to explain to us. Cheers!
@jasonheminger4844
8 ай бұрын
Great video! You may want to update the chapter 2 title though...I saw "Research Manager" and thought there was a feature I missed!
@oversemper
8 ай бұрын
Thanks! Interesting. But I always struggle with the end of your video to manage it to stop before you say "bye", coz you say it something like 40dB louder than the rest of the video.
@shadowarez1337
8 ай бұрын
The Question should Synology+TrueNas thats the Solution im going with Synology will now be my main backup True Nas will be my main server since itll have far superior hardware like a 5700G 64GB of Ram and of course SR-IOV and Bifurcation 👍 plus Thunderbolt for Egpu when its time to upgrade to a 5950x. And R-sync so the Synology will always be updated to what the True NAS Server will have.
@powermi2804
8 ай бұрын
Sweet spot for me is a 2 bay Synology and a Truenas Core server. Synology for ldap and active directory, photos, containers and drive. And then replication and backups to Truenas.
@Evertb1
8 ай бұрын
I always find the comparison between Synology kind of NAS devices and a well build TrueNAS system nonsense. On the one hand you have consumer targeted plug and play NAS devices on the other hand you have an for the business world designed storage system NOT targeted at your general consumer market. The primary function of TrueNAS is to offer a reliable, and if build right, bullet proof storage system. That's it. Privately I run a couple of Synology devices because if something happens to me I don't want my wife and children be overwhelmed with TrueNAS. For the business I run TrueNAS core in a professional network setup. That's an whole other world.
@jayzn1931
Ай бұрын
But especially for business users the better statistics and permissions seem a lot more manageable on Synology to me. I do have a homeserver running TrueNAS, but I am not sure if I want to continue using TrueNAS or switch to Synology. The proprietary nature and expensive upgrades of DS are what keep me leaning towards TrueNAS, but finding the right (used) hardware for my needs isn‘t easy as well.
@lnawrat
8 ай бұрын
@SpaceRex, is it possible to write synology firewall rules (or configuration in general) as code? Like Infrastructure as Code, but for system configuration. Synology has intuitive desgin, but managing business setups by "cliking in the portal" is not professional and seems to not be feasible. I don't think there an official Synology Ansible library, and trying setup everything from the shell seems like an overkill - unless if there is a documentation somewhere for just that.
@Vicvines
8 ай бұрын
In my case, my data is too precious to trust it to something I made on my own. I don't trust my ability to build my own TrueNAS server capable of keeping my personal data safe. I just know I would screw something up somewhere.
@-musiclee-
8 ай бұрын
Just a Visual but Synolgy looks so Windows 95. They need to pretty up that interface. TrueNAS “looks” more modern. Synology give us dark mode too. And better fonts
@TazzSmk
8 ай бұрын
I wonder if a brief similar coverage on topic would be comparable with Synology vs Windows Server? I mean, the similarities are there (AD/LDAP, resource management via web Admin Center, Firewall, File management from GUI....)
@EricOnYouTube
8 ай бұрын
Will, I installed OMV on my RPi. Can you tell me what scripts to create that will check on the health of it all? Thank you.
@yasonkatt8454
4 ай бұрын
Try; why Synology is better then QNAP or actually the way around...
@monish05m
8 ай бұрын
Guy here talking about 200tb's like its nothing, whereas im here trying to cobble together 20tb on my budget. 😢
@BoraHorzaGobuchul
8 ай бұрын
Different people and business have different budgets. No news here. His points are generally valid for all kinds of people.
@kev2020-z9s
8 ай бұрын
I have a hp microserver gen8 running truenas scale would like to run synology but can't unless I use Xpenology this is a very grey area? Synology don't sell software.
@SpaceRexWill
8 ай бұрын
It’s up to you, but generally I would recommend TrueNAS over xpenology for self hosted builds. It’s just designed to be self hosted
@Bandicoot803
7 ай бұрын
How about the part where performing a critical software upgrade ( *.img writing to flash ) is suddenly cut short on a power outage at the worst possible time? Result is a corrupted flash chip and no "easy" way to perform any recovery! Why? You got no flash image file - not provided by Synology. You got no physical interface ( VGA, RS232 ) to hook up a monitor in order to interact with the subsystem ( BIOS, UEFI ). What do you do if your Synology NAS gets bricked this way? TrueNAS on the other hand is way easier to recover: - Download image file PROVIDED by TrueNAS. - Burn image file to USB stick. - Hook up Keyboard and monitor to hardware and hit the power button. - Boot into USB stick and perform the ( simple ) installation. - Reboot, log in to your TrueNAS, upload the previously saved config file, reboot. - Enjoy in great relief a recovered system. - Hold my beer, Synology!
@zyghom
8 ай бұрын
I totally disagree with your point number 3: Unix way: 1 thing done by 1 device - you will have blabla firewall if you start mixing it with NAS. Or blabla NAS with good firewall. Other points I completely agree. However, Synology is going "Windows" direction: "all from GUI" and "every idiot can do it" - is it better? I am not sure
@SpaceRexWill
8 ай бұрын
So here I am not referring to firewall being a router, but just a firewall to allow connections to different services. You really don’t want to run NFS/SMB/iSCSI where you have to do intervlan routing as you loose a ton of performance
@zyghom
8 ай бұрын
@@ghostedsuicide agree
@1BSDjunkie
8 ай бұрын
SMB = Server Message Block
@chrisbrookshire861
8 ай бұрын
SpaceRex is a secret Aussie.
@BoraHorzaGobuchul
8 ай бұрын
He gives himself away with his g'day. However, earth is flat as we all know and Australia doesn't exist, so he's a figment of our collective imagination
@gazsoimi
8 ай бұрын
the video name is slightly missleading. intro: synology for home and small busines, truenas is for big businesss. next 20 minutes: this is why truenas is not for small companies.
@gazsoimi
8 ай бұрын
As someone who is in europe, here is my view: micro business
@michael-4k4000
2 ай бұрын
What is Synology?
@wookman4022
8 ай бұрын
Over two minutes saying the same 2 things over and over. Bored.
@user-ym7ss6xb3j
7 ай бұрын
say you dont understand LDAP without saying you dont understand LDAP
@pgotze
8 ай бұрын
Well, in case of performance checks resource monitor is nice, but has also limits. Unfortunately, in last few months, i have permanent high volume utilization around 98%, disk utilization around 40% almost permanently. In Resource monitor i can see nice history, so i see when it started plus minus and that it is permanent problem. But have no way how to solve it. Disks looks OK, i tried to stop packages, did not find the reason, in processes only syslog-ng process looks like permanently writing something. I tried to solve it with support, but just general recommendations and they did not spend much time to investigate. No idea, what has changed, if is related to some package or DSM update or i just changed some config. Here i am missing some deeper analytics tools. Or i just dont know them.
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