Recently installed YaCy on my Synology via docker image the provide. Already saved about 10Gb of content interesting to me. Now, I have a personal Search Engine. Awesome.
Yeah, if it is just one articles or a blog post I crawl at depth 0, and if it is someone's personal website who I enjoy reading always, no matter what they write, I do an infinite crawl on that specific domain.
Off-topic, but how do you like Synology? I'm familiar with one of their units for work, but I'm looking into a new NAS for my home, and I'm trying to decide between Synology or building my own and putting Nextcloud on it.
Also not OP. I've got a Synology 918+ that I've used for years, and as a file store, I'm quite pleased.
I've tried running apps on it, and the ones that are available are decent, but I pretty quickly got to where I needed to SSH in to make certain things happen, and that felt weird for an appliance like this. I added Docker and ran a bunch of stuff on that, and that was kind of a pain. They don't make it easy to update the images and the community's solution is to SSH in and install watchtower to do it.
I'm now just using it for network file storage and running all those services on a Linux box instead.
I thought about just putting the drives in the Linux box, but I did some network testing and the NAS was faster, and it provides a lot of storage-related niceties, so I'm keeping it in the mix. For instance, I recently decided to upgrade the drives to faster, larger ones, and it's been pretty easy.
Thanks! So are you running the first-party Synology Drive, Moments, etc. for file/photo syncing, or do you run something like Nextcloud on your Linux box? Or do you not use software like that?
I'm not using that kind of stuff. Mine is mostly about video with a little sorta-backup for files that don't matter a ton, but I'd still rather not lose.
Not OP, but I've been using a Synology NAS since 2013 and it's a great product. I bought a router from them as well, which is also superb. I think it's a fabulous investment.
Expectations: file/photo sync, media server, ad blocking (Pi-hole). I saw that Synology has first-party apps for most of this (Synology Drive, Moments, Video).
It's photo app is NPM garbage. Sure, I have an ancient ds115j (armv7@800Mhz, 256Mb RAM), but I couldn't use it.
But despite it's ancient-ness I was able to update it to the latest Synology OS (DSM), which tells how S. is supporting their products.
So be sure to get a version with enough RAM, I would go for 2Gb+ versions in your place, so avoid ds220j and ds218play, look at ds218 (without 'play' suffix) or ds220+. Oops, their site says VMM is supported only on DS220+, so I think you have no choice there, but 220+ has an additional memory slot, which could be handy.
For literally $300[1] you can't do better.
However, there is a way to install DSM on non-Synology hardware, so if have a desktop PC to run it I would advise for you to test it out.
I used a small Synology NAS from 2012-2019, at which point I replaced it with small linux box because I wanted ZFS. Inability to support ZFS was really the only reason I replaced it; it was still working fine.
Vanilla Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Every couple of months or so I update all the packages and reboot. That's really all the maintenance I've ever done on it, apart from initial setup. I ought to set it up so that it can email me if a zfs scrub ever detects a problem, but I haven't done that yet.
Not OP but counter to what everyone else said, I don’t like mine. I bought the cheapest one available when it was on sale. It validated I wanted a NAS but it was too weak. Any usage would be slow and all the apps dragged it down. The apps are nice with how easy it is to install and get working, but if you wanna use it as a server not just NAS… you get what you pay for.
I still use it but plan to build a server this winter and gift the synology yo my father.
I like Synology a lot but mainly use it for storage/backup. It's a very expensive way to host containers IMO. I would look to a Mac Mini for something like that.
Thanks. My main use-cases are file/photo syncing, media server, etc. I saw that Synology has first-party apps for those things, so that would be the main draw for me.
Even as a media server I personally find it too expensive to buy one that can handle 4K transcoding, frequently needed for subtitles. I just use Synology to server the files and run Plex on a separate machine.
