Migrating from Google Workspace
reddit / selfhosted

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efitzpercy · 2023-10-30 08:45

My university finally stopped offering unlimited Google Drive storage
after 9 years. Being so dependent on google Drive I'm between hosting
my own cloud or getting a synology. I work in my office and also
during at home sometimes and the with google drive I'm using the
stream option which only download files when I need it. I would like
to keep it that way if possible.

 I've heard good things about Synology and it just works out of the
box but I've also read that unfortunately if the hardware craps out
after warranty I'd pretty much have to get a new one?

I've also read up on TrueNAS and Nextcloud but it seems that it needs
alot of post setup maintenance? I'm have experience setting up Linux
and other OS's and I'm ok with installing and setting the NAS up
initially but I'd rather not spend much time troubleshooting if/when
its not working properly. Is it as bad as the comment sections here
suggest?

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ajtatum · 2023-10-30 10:27

So, what you say about Synology is true; I have a DS1821+ and it just
works. It fits the bill for offering out of the software similar to
Google Drive. However, as I run it with unofficial RAM and Ethernet
card, when I have a problem, I need to remove the card and put back in
the RAM that the NAS came with as otherwise Synology won't help.
Luckily, this has only been one time. That said, I'd still buy a
Synology again for the purpose of it being a NAS.

I also have an unRAID server though that runs apps and whatnot, but
that server backs up to my Synology.

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efitzpercy · 2023-10-30 14:53

I guess Synology it is then. I just read that even updating Base OS
will sometimes break TrueNAS and thats exactly what I'm trying to
avoid.

On a side note, instead of getting 4 bay Synology that has 2 drives as
redundancy drives (SHR-2), are there any downsides of getting 2 x 2
bay Synologies running without redundancy  (RAID0 ?)  with one being
the "main server" and the other as a backup (preferably somewhere
offsite?).

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ajtatum · 2023-10-30 22:14

Well, I had a DS720+ and regretfully sold it on eBay when I got my
DS1821+. So, the upside with more disks is that transferring files and
running apps on the Synology are much faster; however, that's also
dependent on your networking setup (and also utilizing SMB multi-
channel). I do wish I kept my DS720+ and put in larger drives so that
I could use it for backups of my DS1821+, but backing up to external
hard drives works fine for me right now.

Personally, I would start off with a five bay NAS if you're going to
do SHR-2, but I also just use SHR-1 for my setup as I've read many
stories about the other disk dying during a RAID rebuild. I just have
weekly reports emailed to me with drive health and keep an eye out for
drives that may be failing.

Also, this is totally my opinion and I recommend doing your own
research, but Toshiba N300 drives are extremely well built, have a
larger cache, and according to Backblaze (I believe) they typically
have lower failure rates than Seagate and WD. They're more expensive,
but for a good reason.