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Synology DS923 vs. FreeBSD with ZFS
A comparison of a home-built FreeBSD NAS with ZFS against the DS923+ storage appliance from Synology.
Email-based alerts are terrible in large organizations (and of course the DSM offers better alternatives, like ActiveInsight), but for my personal use case, emails are perfect and make a huge difference with my previous FreeBSD setup. Having a dedicated NAS with a storage pool that protects against corruption is great, but a singly-homed box like this is still subject to massive data loss due to ransomware, physical damage caused by fire or flooding, and correlated disk failures. I don’t think I need it because my FreeBSD solution worked well enough, but considering that I like to use the ThinkStation as the host for my VMs and as my primary development machine—aka, a fun toy—I feel more at peace with a dedicated appliance that stores my precious data.
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