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Re:A modular, extensible DIY NAS by pilsetnieks on Monday October 05, 2020 @08:09AM (#24686944)
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.

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Re:A modular, extensible DIY NAS by nix23 on Monday October 05, 2020 @09:34AM (#24687613)
>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.

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Re:A modular, extensible DIY NAS by ValentineC on Monday October 05, 2020 @01:26PM (#24689837)
> 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.

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Re:A modular, extensible DIY NAS by nix23 on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:19AM (#24695987)
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.
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