#Synology cloud station backup linux mac#

Plus, I hate how every QNAP app starts with a Q. But again, the QNAP model I wanted wasn’t in stock.

#Synology cloud station backup linux mac#

Wirecutter says that some of their units perform better than Synology’s, and QNAP has a feature called QFiling that acts like the Mac app Hazel, which automatically reorganizes files based on your specifications. QNAP also has some advantages over Synology. I wanted something that would work out of the box with minimal fiddling.

Since TrueNAS is open source, I could have built my own server or repurposed some hardware, but with three kids and a farm, I don’t have time for yet another project. However, the TrueNAS Mini X model I wanted was out of stock, and TrueNAS units are more expensive than Synology’s. I would have preferred a TrueNAS setup since TrueNAS is open source. Why did I choose Synology over the other options on the market, namely QNAP and TrueNAS? The primary answer is that the DS 920+ was in stock when I was shopping, while comparable QNAP and TrueNAS units were not. A NAS makes even more sense for a small office where multiple people might be running into the same problems with needing easy access to a centralized set of files. Your files are right there in your home and you don’t have to transfer them over the Internet to carry over your work to another device. It’s still a big investment in both money and time, but it’s well worth it if you have a lot of data you access from multiple computers. Running a home server isn’t for everyone, but Synology makes doing so about as accessible as possible, and you can be up and running within an hour. The entire setup cost about $1000, but after a month of usage, I think the investment has been well worth it, even though I’m still in the process of transferring decades of data to the DS 920+. A NAS is a big investment, but what finally kicked me into action was the recent iCloud outage, when I realized that my Mac had offloaded many of my important documents to iCloud and I couldn’t access them for about 2 hours.Īfter some research, I purchased a Synology DS 920+ and four 6 TB WD Red hard drives. I knew I needed a home server, specifically a networked-attached storage (NAS) device, but I hemmed and hawed for years. I needed a better solution for local storage for this effort because my old system consisted of multiple external hard drives attached to my iMac, which was messy and made it hard to access files from other devices. For a few years now, I’ve been wanting to move more of my data out of the cloud and onto my own local storage.