Synology VS TrueNAS Scale:Which One Is Right For You in 2023?

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00:00 Synology VS TrueNAS Scale
01:56 Features List
02:57 Open Source
03:10 Central Management
03:25 High Availability
04:21 Relay Proxy
04:49 Drive Support
05:17 File Systems & Raid
06:56 Virtualization & Docker
08:08 Encryption & Snapshots
08:28 Data Replication
09:17 Cloud Backup
09:58 Plugins, Extensions,Apps
11:33 NVR Video Surveillance
12:08 Computer, M365 & Google Apps Backup
13:25 Photo Management
14:04 Office Applications
14:50 File Sync
15:22 Media Players
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@samsampier7147 Год назад

Love this channel. It was my first channel that supported freenas without using ecc memory. Happily still using truenas core on whatever architecture I can find.

@johndroyson7921 6 месяцев назад

I absolutely love core. It's just so stable

@doveshouse Год назад

Picking up what you're laying down as always thank you. I don't want to blow sunshine up behind... But really dig your videos... Big fan!

@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Год назад

Thanks

@misku_ Год назад

Super useful comparison! Thank you for sharing your experiences with both systems 👍

@spasmonaut10 Год назад

No complaints about any of your content but I have to say, this is a very timely and extremely insightful video. I use both as well but TrueNAS has mainly been an rsync destination for backing up my Synology and not much else. Synology is honestly just dead simple for so much of what I want and need. I'm certain I still haven't really fully exploited what my DS1621+ can do at this point.

@rsluggy6485 Год назад

My little Synology DS220+ is a workhorse. I have 7 cameras on Surveillance Station, I host Home Assistant as a VM and Unifi controller as a Docker container, syslog for mostly LAN gear (including pfSense) and, of course, file storage. As an amateur astrophotographer, I keep gobs of raw capture files and I have a couple of laptops backing up the users' home directory. The CPU rarely ticks over 25%, though 6GB memory stays about 70% most of the time. I upgraded from a DS120j, primarily to gain camera licenses and future disk capacity. The DS120j is now used as a backup location for the 220+ and for an internet shared folder for an astrophotography buddy and I to share files.

@billygilbert7911 Год назад

Awesome video Tom. Thank you

@AM93000 Год назад

DS916+ and still running strong. Zero issues since operational in late 2016. However it doesn't meet my requirements anymore and im in process of building a truenas scale box and im amazed of what truenas can achieve

@davidfarning8246 Год назад

Great timing. I have just started researching a replacement for my trusty Synology 918+. It has been great as a home office nas. I would love to see a video on available hardware for a TrueNAS scale machine that is on par with a 918+. I nearly commented last night asking about has hardware on your firewall round up video.

@merlingt1 Год назад

I ran a Synology for many years until the PSU failed and I had to solder a connector into a Flex PSU because the original PSU was going to cost more than the unit. That’s when I switch to FreeNAS at the time and never looked back.

@sharedknowledge6640 Год назад

A lot of Synology hardware is short lived. There are many reports of failures just out of warranty. They cut too many corners and would rather focus on their pretty UI.

@3WheelsontheGround Год назад

@@sharedknowledge6640 I have one running 24/7 since 2014 but they are not repairable.

@pingmetal Год назад

I recently discovered mine was turned off and I couldn't turn it back on. Fortunately replacing its power adapter was enough to fix it. I was lucky.

@michaelmurphy452 Год назад

Syno / Qnap user for ~10 years. Just getting my first TrueNAS scale up and running and the one massive difference I have seen (besides ease of use) is the Syno Cloud Sync client acts very differently than the TrueNAS one. I understand all the arguments for why one directional syncing is best (In enterprise environments). As a home user those risks aren't really there for me (editing in both locations, etc.). I really wish there was an option to have TrueNAS do bi-directional syncs with Google Drive after giving me a stern warning that it can be dangerous. I am sure I will find other differences over time but thats been the only one that has had me googling for hours

@bzmrgonz Год назад

Since you’ve used all 3, can you highlight some of the strengths of qnap? It seems they are not keeping up with the NAS Jones with all the bells and whistles!!

@Fluffy2Buffy 10 месяцев назад

@@bzmrgonz I am amazed that QNAP, drobo, buffalo stays in buisness. I will ocassionaly check out their websites and just leave thinkin.."so who buys these?" and thats not a bad thing, just their hardware seems so specific to wacky markets. (like who needs a 2 bay cellphone CPU based NAS with a TV remote?) it lacks the firepower to do transcoding.. lacks the CPU support to stream decently, and lacks the Cloud feaderus that so many low end consumers in that space need. so who is this elusive market they serve.. pun intended. at least with Synology, and iX systems, there is some percievable semblance of direction and market bias.

@DragonReborn100 Год назад

I use both systems in my house, TrueNAS for Emby media server, Guacamole (remote desktop to home network), Minecraft bedrock server for the kids( Not me honestly!) , pi-hole, qbittorrent and netdata. But my synology i use mainly for CCTV, great system with deep video analytics, stopped so many false positives that i seemed to get on BlueIris before. Also use a docker for pi-hole backup if i reboot my truenas, which doesnt happen that often! Great video again Tom

@brucekeen8925 Год назад

I run my small business on 3 truenas systems. I like the Z2 disk format that lets me easily change a broken drive (which happened once) and the whole ZFS systems that can restore a snapshot if something goes wrong and the wrong project gets deleted. The truenas replication system is also excellent. Everything gets backed up every hour over SSH. 160 Mb of ECC ram is helpful when working on a same movie so the disk spin less. Truenas has been such a workforce for us that I couldn't think of changing.

@jenniferw8963 Год назад

So the LFF HDD Spin down in your Truenas with tghe 160mb of ram? That's nice.. saves some energy cost. Looking at the Dell PowerEdge R720.. 85 watts idle.. and then 7 watts per HDD on that.. with a big raid it'd cost me like $208 per year in electricity, with them all spinnign 24/7

@TrueCharts Год назад

Great video, thanks for the shoutout!

@pixelbucket2256 Год назад

I like tech, I knew I needed a NAS after much searching online (heavily including your videos heh), but as a novice in IT, and after trying a both a TrueNas Scale and Core, I opted to get myself an Synology unit. Synology is way more user friendly, but I feel I had more knobs to play with on Scale/Core. That said, I'll stick with Synology for now, but as my knowledge increases I will probably give TN another chance eventually. Thanks for making this kind of content, it really helps noobs like me to make a choice haha!

@Fluffy2Buffy 10 месяцев назад

TN is the gateway drug to seriously effective, if not Obtuse Storage technology. ZFS has literally made me cocky over the years.. Im to scared to try anything else in production.

@MichaelEKaz 4 месяца назад

This is my plan too. After watching and reading, I decided to do this in steps. Start with a Synology, and then go from there.

@davidanderson2436 Год назад

Great video thanks!

@RonaldChmara Год назад

Literally the question I was mulling this weekend, as I try to figure out what my EOL plan is for my Synology boxen (replace 'em with newer models, or make a BTO system).

@VincentParrett Год назад

My biggest issue with Synology is that you have to replace them.. there's no upgrading to be done on them. My RS3411RPxs is stuck on DSM 6.x and EOL - yet it still works perfectly - just sans the newer apps/features. I'll be replacing it with Truenas scale - on a repurposed server (with some new drives, ssds etc), much cheaper than an equivalent synology server.

@1MoreNaturalDisaster Год назад

I have truenas core running on esxi but switching to synology because I need something easy for my family to use and like the usb backup option on the synology

@MR-vj8dn Год назад

All I want is Synology Hybrid RAID in more systems, like TrueNAS or others. I used to use Drobo for larger (and slower) volumes but now I want something even bigger and Synology just throws errors on me for inserting HGST drives in it - my favourite drive since the nineties (IBM back then).

@jdsim9173 Год назад

Truenas on a Dell r710 or a Synology device?

@martins_t_n_t Год назад

Thank for this, gives a good insight in the 2 systems. You talk about photo for phones, what about sharing to the television? With DS 6 there was the DS Photo app that could run on Android television... Is there a simplere solution with one of the system. Having you phone shared on the television to see pictures is not ideal... Thanks

@PyCoder82 Год назад

Plex or DLNA?

@dan8t669 Год назад

very helpful, thx

@Raima888s 2 месяца назад

Looking to try the truenas option. Have some spare hardware lying around. Need to replace a NAS that's having reliability issues from terramaster.

@MrFoof82 Год назад

One other differentiator is setting up an SSD cache/auto-tier is VERY easy on a Synology, and can ensure fantastic throughput for ingest and commonly accessed data. TrueNAS? Exercise left for the user. I’ve done it on TrueNAS Scale, and it’s *fantastic* to have a transparent multi-TB ingest/cache tier to saturate a 40Gbps link, but it’s not super-easy like a Synology.

@barygol 9 месяцев назад

You don't need the SSD cache if your drives are all SSDs right? Is still Synology mainly using 1Gb NICs?

@3WheelsontheGround Год назад

My experience with Synology is mixed. Plus side they are so simple to setup compared to True NAS; maybe it is just the the ZFS that scares me. My first experience with Synology was a 2 bay in 2014 the setup took me maybe 15 minutes and has been running 24/7 since then. My 2nd was an 8 bay which died shortly after the warranty ran out. I approached Synology for help they refuse, excuse the warranty is over scrap it we will sell you a new one. Synology is a closed system; closed source OS, closed source hardware similar to Apple if it breaks it goes in the landfill. TrueNAS will run on almost anything made by anyone, most of these boxes are repairable. Fewer trips to the landfill. It is your choice, I grew up in a time when repairable not disposable was the buzz word. If Synology products were repairable I would buy another, until then I’ll pass.

@johnvillalovos 10 месяцев назад

Was the 8 bay model a DS1815+? Mine failed in 2021 but I sent mine into a guy in Illinois last week who repaired it for around $250. I received it on Saturday and it is working great now. If you still have yours you might consider that.

@Kludgedean Год назад

I'm having problems with HDD power management on my spinning HDDs. Setup is server running proxmox, blacklisting HBAs on host, passing through HBA to truenas core VM. I can't get any drives to spin down. I'm thinking truenas scale might be better as it's closer to the metal and wouldn't need to have the "NAS" virtualized? Thoughts anyone?

@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Год назад

Virtualized NAS is often a head ache.

@Kludgedean Год назад

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS not had any real problems, everything passed through fine, but I'm thinking because it's been blacklisted on the host, and pcie passed through, something isn't being sent right? OR it needs power management on the base hypervisor? (Unblacklist the HBA) and see if power management works. Got 45 spinning drives, and they refuse to spin down. Talking 520w idle for server and disks... Wasn't a problem before the electricity bills went stupid! My bills are currently over 4 times their original kWh! (England). If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate any insight

@TheMongolPrime Год назад

I also use both. However I've found that the only real reason I have a synology is because of Surveillance Station. Even then, I've replaced almost all my cameras with Unifi Protect equipment, as I've found that to be the superior security camera system. Synology's SS app "DS Cam" is pretty rough to use, and often times times out after ~15 seconds of streaming.

@sturmbreakers7817 Год назад

That’s a you problem

@pierrelambert446 Год назад

I am wondering if Qnap can compare with Synology. Theirs hardware offer more connectivity than Synology.

@Reno730 Год назад

I'm running NextCloud on TrueNAS Scale. The NextCloud phone app uploads photos automatically and is easy to use.

@notreallyme425 Год назад

13:54 going from Moments to Photos on the Synology is kind of a downgrade. Moments had scene recognition where you could search for “lake” and “mountain” and it would search and filter photos to only show pics with a lake and a mountain. Photos only does facial recognition. I really hope they bring that back!

@karstentopp Год назад

Very interesting. I run QNAP, Synology and a small Netgear. As the Netgear is losing support, functionality and frankly everything but raw storage, I am looking for a path to consolidate everything while still not having to run a power-hungry box. I could run Free NAS/True NAS or Open E or any other software NAS on old server hardware, but would not be energy efficient... Or would it?

@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Год назад

Older servers are usually much less energy efficient

@karstentopp Год назад

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Indeed. My existing NAS appliances use less power under full load than a Dell R710 in idle. That's why I refrain from reusing old(er) servers for NAS roles. Electricity has become expensive ...

@stephenreaves3205 Год назад

I've been on Free/TrueNas since version 9 and even suffered through the Corral days. This server has grown with me and has become super customized and I couldn't be happier. Now if only I could afford to build a second one...

@im.thatoneguy Год назад

I have a $20k TrueNAS system... But damn, if you can find Synology hardware that meets your needs it's really hard to recommend anything else. Synology Drive has no right to be as good as it is. And Active/Hyperbackup makes owning at least one Synology a pretty easy choice just as a backup appliance.

@kenyee88 Год назад

Should also include comparison of security software..truenas does sound nice.

@PurgatoryPriest Год назад

@LAWRENCESYSTEMS - What's the name of the screensaver in the background?

@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Год назад

It's a Ubuntu/Debian package called hollywood.

@PurgatoryPriest Год назад

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Thank you, Tom.🙂

@MotownBatman Год назад

DUDE! This is a Great Definition breakdown! I've been dabbling with Poxmox & TruNAS Scale, Scale Looks much nicer: This was a great breakdown overall just to understand TrueNas better, I'm not interested in Synology...

@TheRealWillM 10 месяцев назад

I prefer the Synology OS over the TrueNAS OS because it's easy to use and just works for my needs. That being said my Synology has almost died and I have installed TrueNAS + nextcloud on a spare older PC but comes with a bit of a learning curve getting the configuration right and so that it replicates to some sort of degree, the Synology setup I had. I know there is a GitHub version of Synology but I wanted to avoid it until I have had a good crack at the TrueNAS software and if I get feed up with it, mainly due to time constraints, I can still fall back on Synology OS

@SpookyLurker Год назад

I have only one reason I would get a Synology, and that would be to see if it was easier to share files with a friend that has one. (Currently I spend my time downloading 1.5GB batches as the downloads become corrupt otherwise.) I've tried to connect via VPN, no luck (firewall to firewall) SFTP, no luck I don't own a Dream Machine, so I can't try out Teleport. (Or is it not needed to connect to someone's network?) I can't see myself ever buying a Synology due to proprietary hardware.. and just for experiments.

@cnex101 Год назад

There are multiple ways you can share files between two Synology products. Their own Hyper Backup app can sync two Synology Volumes or Shares between two units. This can count towards a 3-2-1 backup solution. Another way would be to use a rsync task. Sync one share to another sync enabled device. And finally, you could use the Synology Drive App or if the Synology has been setup with QuickConnect or External sharing and your friend has given you a user account on his Synology system, then you could potentially mount a UNC path share to a computer. Like anything, each of these suggestions have pros/cons, and range from simple to complex depending on how much security your friend has setup. These suggestions are also well documented on the Synology Help forum and in their KB Articles. I wish you well on your journey.

@greyfox3647 Год назад

Does anyone know what is running on his monitor during the intro??

@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Год назад

it's a debian / ubuntu package called "Hollywood" that make it look like I am doing cool things.

@greyfox3647 Год назад

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS PERFECT. I needed something make me look cool at work.

@TazzSmk Год назад

TrueNas still does seem to lack so much against Synology, didn't expect the comparison be that hard, basically all basic home/prosumer features need to be provided by third-party apps, can be a good thing, but at this point when TrueNas still doesn't even have native file manager via web, while Synology DSM 7.2 provides (finally) volume encryption and new virtualization platform "Container Manager"....we'll see how both TrueNas and Synology DSM will evolve :)

@Chris-hy6jy Год назад

Active backup for TrueNAS = Veeam client.

@JayantBB78 Год назад

A request. Make a video for TrueNAS Core Vs TrueNAS Scale for a personal one or two man business. Thanks a lot for the whole content you have share on your channel. Specially from FreeNAS to TrueNAS. Big fan of you.

@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Год назад

TrueNAS core is really just NAS only vs TruenNAS Scale is NAS + apps

@JayantBB78 Год назад

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Thank you for stopping by. How much theses (+ apps) are worthy for tiny to small businesses.

@Tgspartnership Год назад

cool wallpaper 😎

@FHollis-gw4cc Год назад

I had to watch this video five times! I kept being distracted by the display on the screen behind you and wondering how I could duplicate it.

@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Год назад

it's a linux package called Hollywood.

@FHollis-gw4cc Год назад

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Thank You!

@nickharvey5149 Год назад

I have 2 x RS-1221s in an HA cluster via 10G. It fell over, and almost totally screwed the secondary machine. Over month later Synology have not sorted it out......

@troy.s Год назад

If you need the apps, Synology is great, but it's very hard to beat the TCO of TrueNAS on enterprise hardware. A Dell R730xd can be had for as little as a third of a comparable Synology unit.

@AdmV0rl0n Год назад

I've used Synology kit for many many years. Its always impressed me and ran long term with minimal issues, and good upgrades. My one snag that I would place against them in a fight with Truenas - is that many many Synology platforms have tight or limited or set memory capacity. This has become a real achillies heel in terms of docker / VMs on their platform. None the less. Have great respect for Synology.

@june5646 Год назад

You forgot to mention the upper synology volume limit even on the higher ends its like from 120tb to 250tb

@TheJoBlackos Год назад

Both sucks on the virtualization, unless you need some small stuff. I have tested both and ended up getting dedicated server for virtualization. Even one vm was a pain even though I have lots of memory for both systems. they are just not great for virtualization.

@mikeboatright5349 Год назад

So if my Synology hardware dies can I just buy a new Synology and put my drives in like with TrueNAS so I don't lose my data?

@edwinkm2016 Год назад

AFAIK this is possible. Also you should be able to import a array in Linux. They just use LVM/mdraid. But you need command line to make this possible. Better verify everything on some forum. That said, if some models are picky about the HD brand then you can possible get problems.

@mikeboatright5349 Год назад

@@edwinkm2016 Thank you for the info. I will do some more research.

@chromerims Год назад

@@mikeboatright5349 From my research, I got the impression that it would be prudential for a business using Synology to have handy a second, spare box identical to the one you have. If hardware failure, that is only realistic pathway to resume or restore operations. Then seek to promptly get another spare box in place (or quickly repair the failed hardware which has some proprietary parts such as Synology's bespoke power supplies). Similar story for Qnap. Blessings and kindest regards, friends.

@zeroibis Год назад

The incompatibility of Synology with S3 file names containing < > | { ^ } % ` ] [ ~ # is what moved me over to TrueNAS.

@paulvancyber1979 Год назад

can this software use to be like a personal cloud?

@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Год назад

Yes

@paulvancyber1979 Год назад

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS and they have the app for android or iphone?

@PyCoder82 Год назад

@@paulvancyber1979i recommend nextcloud + photoprism (photosync). Clients are available for Android and iOS.

@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Год назад

@@paulvancyber1979 Some Synology apps have phone apps

@paulvancyber1979 Год назад

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS thanks, I want to give to some of my costumers a cloud service to backup some photos. And I was watching your videos of freenas and synology but I dont understand if they were capable to have private cloud storage

@ahothabeth Год назад

I have three Synology systems at home (one main and two back ups), but Synology becoming more restrictive I am serious considering TrueNAS.

@edwinkm2016 Год назад

Can you give examples? Do you mean accepting only “synology” drives?

@ahothabeth Год назад

@@edwinkm2016 Not only '“synology” only drives', but also memory and NVMe drives.

@YerBrwnDogAteMyRabit Год назад

Well, that settles that. Talk about going backwards. TrueNAS or Xpenology it is. They can have their proprietary BS.

@edwinkm2016 Год назад

AFAIK the hard drive limitation is for the more enterprise versions. Which is somewhat reasonable. Truenas is much flexible. You can run multiple plugins of the same type ( I think not possible with synology) but understanding Linux and file permissions is almost a requirement.

@samwang1439 Год назад

@@edwinkm2016 Like in DSM 5 and 6, people are able to plug accessories like network card into the usb port. But in DSM 7, those features had gone. Another thing I’m facing right now is that they had a esata port, but will limit the functionality of you’re using a non-Synology-branded disk extension shelf making you cannot use the external drives as those internal.

@essdee800 Год назад

I love my truenas. No experience with synology

@peteratkin3788 8 месяцев назад

That's even a question? can't imagine using Synology OS on my $16,000 storage server!!!, Synology at it's very best is SMB, but mostly S. Right tool for the right job and all that.

@ahothabeth Год назад

Synology also have SHR and SHR2 as RAID types.

@june5646 Год назад

Hardware and volume limits not found in Truenas or Unraid, not to mention lack of gpu ability

@stevevuoso8411 Год назад

And F1.

@ahothabeth Год назад

@@stevevuoso8411 F1 was mentioned in the video, but SHR and SHR2 were not.

@atarihotel Год назад

I've owned a Synology ds220j NAS for over a year, while it works ok for the most part (it acts up when accessed by my Android 10 box) I've seen in my DNS logs it's phoning home far too much for my taste, several times a day. With no explanation why it's doing it, So I've blocked all contact with Synology at the DNS level with Pi-Hole. In short, if I could sell it for a decent price it would be gone.

@MagDag_ 11 месяцев назад

What do you think about unRAID? I habe sunilogy and looking for upgrades.

@LAWRENCESYSTEMS 11 месяцев назад

Less performance than TrueNAS but certainly a popular choice for Homelab.

@MagDag_ 11 месяцев назад

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS thank you. What about safety and features?

@PlusMinusAda Месяц назад

I had problem about my synology nas And Steve Baker Technical Support Engineer write me about my problem that We are sorry to hear that your DS218 has to be reset. This is likely caused by an issue in the DSM operating-system. We understand that you are worried about losing your data. Please rest assured, your data should not be affected by the reset as the OS and data are stored in separate partitions on the drives. When re-installing the OS, the system should normally not touch the data-partitions of your drives. I beleived and i did what he said now all my data erased omg i shocked after sir Steve Baker dissepeared i am alone there is nothing in my hands Synology is regret bad nas choose qnap there isnt good support for problemss !!!

@am7-p Год назад

The biggest advantage of TrueNAS (or QNAP) over Synology is the support for 3rd party NVME volumes. NVME volumes are a big advantage and Synology is playing hardball keep promoting its over priced NVME products.

@bobbrown8661 Год назад

Team TrueNAS FTW!

@sharedknowledge6640 Год назад

I’ve tried a few Synology units over the years and found they have that typical Taiwan “Form Over Function” design where they would rather make things pretty than have them work correctly. Just look at the reviews of their mobile apps as many are terrible. They also have a steady stream of serious security issues mostly related to all their buggy poorly written apps and cloud connectivity. In fact the last Synology I worked with experienced long unavoidable delays timing out in many operations if it couldn’t phone home because it was fire walled off from the WAN. They are also known for short lived hardware at least in their home/SMB desktop units. I don’t know if they’ve improved in that area. Presumably Synology enterprise products are better but that’s not a market where the greater complexity of Truenas should be an issue. Synology grew out of the desktop NAS market and seems fixated on keeping up with Qnap rather than focusing on what most people actually DO with their products. Qnap is even worse with form over function and needless fluff that just creates problems and security issues. Qnap hardware is at least robust and generally more power efficient than Synology.

@edwinkm2016 Год назад

Well, synology and QNAP give you an option to use the ‘connect to home without any user portfowarding’. And a mobile app. With truenas you have to figure this out yourself. Hackers are interested to attack at large scale so they are a good mark. And lots of users will pay if their files are encrypted by malware.

@asus12351 Год назад

Always confused me how synology can use linux and not be open source isn't that a part of the licensing agreement?

@TheJoBlackos Год назад

It is a bit more complicated than that, it will depend on what is installed and for most part you just need to add the trade mark in your EULA (there is examples you will need to pay though, like for nmap). Again, if you dig over all packages and modules and the licensing is letting you using them for commercial use, you can close the portion you will develop on top of it. Everyone is doing it, this is how Amazon, Linode and pretty much everyone in the cloud is working. Those companies are obviously investing lots of time to develop also in open source projects, they may not provide some of their work, but are getting evolving the open source in another way.

@Bixmy Год назад

Synology have alot of problem biggest one for me is higher cost with also higher maintenance cost compair to buy a pc with the same spec. Second problem is with Synology you r stuck with btrfs. ZFS is definitly ALOT more mature in term of both feature and bug.

@Bixmy Год назад

If u are a home user that want it to be just work just buy Synology but if you're keen on your data research a bit and go truenas

@JAFOpty Год назад

I stopped using Synology after my perfectly working $500 NAS is now unsupported. DIY from now on...

@chromerims Год назад

I am camp TrueNAS. Nonetheless eyes wide open as h/w support can disappear for both open- and closed-source platforms. Blessing and regards, good friends and neighbours.

@rethinking3289 Год назад

lol you are aware there isan unofficial way DSM.

@edwinkm2016 Год назад

I am pretty sure he is aware. Notice he said “official” at this part. But I would not recommend this hack to anyone. Use synology hardware or use real open source nas software.

@rethinking3289 Год назад

@@edwinkm2016 of course. But I have used it. the "hack" is open source. Its a nice way to tryout Synology DSM without buying the hardware.

@m0rthaus Год назад

Man why do people say 'butterFS' when the project is literally called 'BetterFS'? There's no need to invent a new name, it already has one.

@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Год назад

It's called both of those and sometimes called b-tree

@m0rthaus 11 месяцев назад

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS This is my bad. I had read that the project was actually called 'BetterFS' by Chris Mason or one of the other creators of it, but now that I've researched deeper - I was wrong.

@PaulBunkey Год назад

vs Unraid ?

@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Год назад

It's popular among home users, but I never use it so I do not plan on reviewing it.

@Kludgedean Год назад

Unraid is junk if you're serious. If you're not serious, it'll suffice, but I never recommend it personally

@andypetrow4228 Год назад

It is fair to call Unraid junk once you get serious. I loved it untill i didnt. The unraid community is its best feature. If it allowed zfs as an option for the main array it would be awesome

@tjb_altf4 Год назад

Official ZFS support is in 6.12 beta right now with public RC around the corner hopefully. There has also been ZFS support through a community maintained plugin for the last couple of years. Limetech have said ZFS pool won't be able to be used as main array in this release, but that will change in a subsequent release.

@andypetrow4228 Год назад

I tried zfs with unraid early on. The experiance with Truenas is much better. But the community apps and support are excelent on Unraid. i still run Unraid as a vm just for fun. I had a bad experiance with my parity drive on Unraid which is why i moved towards zfs plugin then to Truenas. I actually have the full Pro license for unraid. If they could actually hurry up and bin the unraid feature of Unraid I might move back