Setting up a Raspberry Pi 4 home server

Re:Setting up a Raspberry Pi 4 home server by gempir on Thursday February 20, 2020 @09:31AM (#22375294)

I personally looked into this a lot the past year. And Ended up with a Synology NAS.

The software is just incredible on that thing. I got one with an Intel CPU and can run Docker on it that way. This replaced my PI where i was previously running a few things for home automation.

You can totally setup a NAS with a pi but IMO it's never gonna be as nice as a Synology NAS and all the trouble you have to go through setting it up.

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Re:Setting up a Raspberry Pi 4 home server by beagle3 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @11:06AM (#22376020)

I have a 416, and got it for the same reason - it just works, very well, easy to administer (but hardly ever need to).

But I can't shake the feeling that they will turn to the dark side sooner or later - the fact that the software is closed, mostly. Definitely if they get acquired, but also all the nice features are begging to be abused once the MBAs see they can get another $1/year/customer from selling you out.

So far, I only have excellent things to say about Synology. The feeling is from past experience with other vendors - Synology themselves have been amazing.

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Re:Setting up a Raspberry Pi 4 home server by emptysongglass on Thursday February 20, 2020 @10:00AM (#22375490)

LOVE my Synology DS-218+. Any service not covered by Synology's own suite (family and I make use of Synology Moments for photos, Synology Office for docs, Synology Drive for file sync) I have a docker-composed container for. Hardware accelerated decoding on Plex and Synology support (special shout out to my man Lars) is out of this world good.

You pay a little extra up-front but it really is worth it. The box also uses a special BTRFS implementation that is rock solid and easy to manage snapshots for with their own GUI tools.

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