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Re:My Synology NAS has been hacked by ransomware calling its... by XorNot on Sunday August 03, 2014 @06:57PM (#8129471)
IMO ARM is kind of a wash when it comes to NAS - with modern chipsets most of your power goes to keeping the disks spinning. My C2550D4I file server build I just completed uses about 60W in idle. By my calculations ~40 or so of that is the power used by the 8 disks plus SSD boot drive.

x86 chips are more then suitable for the application since you're no longer in "ultra ultra low power" territory (and for ZFS, are beneficial because you want those checksum calcs to finish fast).

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Re:My Synology NAS has been hacked by ransomware calling its... by vomitcuddle on Sunday August 03, 2014 @07:48PM (#8129577)
I agree, but I can buy two entry-level Synology DiskStations for the price of one C2550 CPU+MB bundle. I really like that CPU and I would buy it in a heartbeat to replace my Synology, if the price didn't include the "GenuineIntel tax".
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Re:My Synology NAS has been hacked by ransomware calling its... by rjsw on Sunday August 03, 2014 @08:52PM (#8129735)
When I bought it, my HP MicroServer cost less than any equivalent ARM NAS, it has ECC RAM too.
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Re:My Synology NAS has been hacked by ransomware calling its... by uxp on Monday August 04, 2014 @09:09AM (#8131556)
I also went with an HP MicroServer, but only just heard about their somewhat recent policy change of requiring a valid warranty or paid service plan to obtain firmware and software updates.

http://www.zdnet.com/hp-to-begin-charging-for-firmware-updat...

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Re:My Synology NAS has been hacked by ransomware calling its... by XorNot on Sunday August 03, 2014 @09:24PM (#8129827)
Same. I went that route because a NAS of any appreciable capacity was going to cost more for the box and no disks then my entire setup put together.
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Re:My Synology NAS has been hacked by ransomware calling its... by voltagex_ on Sunday August 03, 2014 @07:34PM (#8129542)
Can the disks spin down at all in your set up?

I've been looking at those processors for a while (Intel Avoton C2550). Was there any advantage to going up a few models in that series?

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