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.
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.
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 🤞🏻