>Synology produces excellent devices,

Sorry but had quite the opposite experience even with the professional lines. The only NAS i trust is a Server (at least HP mini server) and ZFS. Stuff like unraid is for Windows mindsets, i don't trust HW-Raid and i especially don't trust Closedsource Software BS for stuff like that, exceptions are Enterprise stuff like EVA's or NetApp and EMC.

Synology OS is a modified Linux and it uses mdraid for RAID. There is no hardware RAID, and very little closedsource bullshit.

This is how you'd mount a synology array in a Linux server: https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/DSM/tutorial/St... - it's basically two terminal commands after all the preparation stuff.

I believe QNAP uses mdraid as well but I haven't had any experience with those.

>Synology OS is a modified Linux and it uses mdraid for RAID.

Yes and that raid destroyed itself many times which btw never happened to me on a self-installed Linux.

> Yes and that raid destroyed itself many times which btw never happened to me on a self-installed Linux.

I'm sorry you've had the misfortune of encountering such problems.

I've been using Synology/Xpenology (a fork of their GPL bootloader) for 8 years, and it's still going great for me.

They where all from that RS -Series i think we had about 15 of them from RS14XX to RS1219 and all of them destroyed their own Raid after around 2 years just like that, no firmware update before that or other things that could trigger such a crash.

Opensuse with btrfs is my drug of choice.

Btrfs is on the kernel and just works.

I have to say OpenSuse makes a great job, have tumbleweed on my laptop and it's running great, a really great Distro.