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Synology DSM vs UnRAID – Which NAS Software is Best for
Synology DSM vs UnRAID – Which NAS Software is Best for You?
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My opinion is Synology is like what Windows NT Server should have been.
UNRAID is like a relatively user friendly mini-computer
and TrueNAS is like a freaking mainframe (IBM MVS).
CasaOS is still under construction so I don't know what it will be when it grows up.
CasaOS at the moment has worse system integration than Windows 3.1!
On the topic of NAS OSs, how come you have never reviewed Open Media Vault?
Loving these comparison and tutorial videos. Thanks.
The biggest problem with Synology isn't the software, which is good, as it the enclosure, it's the limited internal hardware. If you go for a (very expensive) xs/xs+ version of the Synology hardware (which is still not that high-end), you lose the ability to use third-party disks and SHR.
* Truenas has left the room *
I don't really think that DSM should be compared to unraid. As you said in "cost" section, you can't buy DSM, you can only buy a sinology NAS that it cost way more than any DIY NAS even if you with an expensive case like the silverstone CS382.
I would rather see a comparison betwen OpenMediaVault (what I'm using right now) VS UnRaid VS TrueNAS. I don't know any other popular NAS OS
I’ve never used a dsm or synology but I’ve used OMV on a raspi and as a virtual machine on prxmx and as a VM in unraid. I ended up buying unraid and love it. I’ve tried truenas but I found the interface wonky, I still use truenas as a backup to my unraid tho! VMs and docker run on unraid. Prxmx is for fun and to keep my skills honed
I tried a nas 20 years ago when I bought a xmeta netdisk 80 gig. I was so disappointed you had to install drivers to get it functioning. It acted as a second HDD rather than appearing on network neighborhood. We’ve come a long way since then.
When you keep saying "Synology end of life software", thats not as accurate as it could be.
That suggests the system will literally die when updates are no longer available.
As my diskstation and DSM (DS918+) does eventually have a timeout for app and DSM updates … I realized that it didnt really matter. Its not as if the system will instantly crash … it just will exist as it is with the final update, for all time.
My use case is not industrial, commercial or have any real security concerns (who really wants to steal my folders of family pictures, resumes, recipes and movies?) and the two factor sign in should effectively stop spammers and Phish scammers, and all the installed DSM apps will work just fine … so … I'm not really worried.
Now … what will end its life is when file sizes and drive size needs, go far beyond todays available drives (for example; my first hard drive in the 1980's was 4Mb) which means when my existing space tech capability times out … thats when I have to upgrade, like when storage is commonly in the petabittes.
That will likely be long after the DSM stops being updated … by decades … and thats when this diskstation will effectively time out.
Thank you for these extended comparisons. It really helps when looking at these products to know if I missed or misunderstood a feature.
Have you look at Xigmanas software?
My opinion on this is that DSM is a tool, while UnRAID, TrueNAS etc are hobbies. DSM is more limited, but it’s super easy to set up and maintain and it just works.
man, you are like my wife: "89.97 = 89" 😉
As a majority dsm user and now also unraid user. Please take note you can run dsm in a docker on unraid.
Great (still) 'painfully detailed' and useful comparative analysis 😉. I am questioning the 'lifetime' support proposition. Yes, unraid exists for more than 15 years now, and then a business model that is funding support cost solely by new customer revenue is intrinsically limited. Even if only focussed on x86/amd64 platforms there will be a point in time where the market is saturated and growth is hard to come by. The Synology model with a somewhat predictable life expectancy seems to be more honest and realistic to me. Secondly, while you pointed out the significant difference in the design of the UX (or lack thereof in case of unraid), I would argue that DSM will be manageable for an average technology friendly home user, while I cannot see that same person be successful setting up an unraid instance without at least tracking back several times while learning the in's and out's of storage systems, and still not end up at an optimal setup for their needs – and I would suspect a lot of bad language would occur in the process.
As a DSM user, I'm ready to give UnRAID a look if I decide on some hardware, as the only things in the Synology UI I use are the Control Panel app to change settings and occasionally File Station if I accidentally deleted something and need to recover it from the Recycle Bin or something. Their Reverse Proxy GUI is not powerful enough to replace nginx configs, so I just use proxy configs on the LSIO swag container for that, it's far easier anyway since that container ships with a ton of them out of the box.
I host all my services with Docker Compose, and that will be the case regardless of the OS I'm using, so honestly I just feel like most of Synology's first party crap gets in my way.
The cheapest DS224+ in Europe right now is 345 EURs, the cheapest Synology memory 4GB (D4NESO-2666-4G ) in Europe right now is 92 EURs. 345 + 92 = 437 EURs or 462 US Dollars, just to keep the costs strait.