stephen ryner jr. 🦉Think it’s time to leave Synology. First, the two-step login process I loathe (“Enter your username. Oh! Enter your password.”) Now it emails a verification code. For a disk array. In my closet.
“Oh but it’s for security,” screw you, I don’t want my NAS exposed to the internet. It should be locked behind a firewall on my home network. I should be able to admin it without having to access anything outside my home at all. This is terrible.
CM Harrington@nuthatch fuuuuck that shit.
Although mine doesn’t do that?? Maybe it’s just old??
@octothorpe do not upgrade!!!
As an extra “fuck you” I can pull the drives from the Synology and stuff them into the new server lol. They’re pretty small, though. Might just smash them with a hammer and give the enclosure away.
Hmm, I don’t really need a NAS. Maybe OWC ThunderBay 4 or QNAP TR-004 attached to the Mac mini would be fine. Certainly faster.
Jacob VO@nuthatch unsolicited advice:
In the before times, I bought this guy and am pretty happy with it. https://a.co/d/0hQKFPnv
Maybe less practical given nvme ssds are super expensive but an option.
Ken McLeod@nuthatch My "NAS" is a 4-bay OWC Raid enclosure hanging off a Mac mini. My backup solution is a shell script on each machine that invokes rsync over ssh.
@_the_cloud I am learning in that direction. QNAP is cheaper but I’m a long-time fan of OWC.
tanuki@nuthatch @_the_cloud I’ve also done the OWC RAID enclosure attached to the Mac Mini and I have only one complaint which is that the HDD drives spin up and down all night long in the next room while I’m trying to sleep. Only unmounting the volumes from macOS stops that.
@tanuki @_the_cloud I’d cooled to the idea remembering how noisy these are. I’ll see if I can disable the two-factor auth. A friend uses Firefox instead of Safari for the web admin, their impression was Safari evicts authentication so you have to log in often 😩
@_the_cloud @nuthatch I specifically have the Mercury Elite Pro Duo model which is marketed as “In addition, smart power conserves energy and extends the life of the drives inside. The Elite Pro Dual automatically spins down during periods of inactivity, and powers on and off with your workstation.”
The nature of noise disturbances is that you wouldn't notice it running, only the stopping and starting. Energy efficient at least, I hope 🤞🏻
Jurgis Kirsakmens@nuthatch I think my next NAS will be my old Mini with all my old spining disks attached.
Dave Nanian