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Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move (www.servethehome.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I see people saying “build your own”, and though I have the technical expertise to do it, the big draws for Synology for me was the form factor and all the stuff in the OS. I can probably recreate the latter easily enough, but where can I find a 2-4 bay system that small and good looking that I can work with?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It’s not TOO hard to build a 5- or 8- drive mini-ITX system, and I like my Jonsbo case well enough.

Main issues:

  1. mini-ITX server motherboards are expensive (even asrock-rack).
  2. mini-ITX server motherboards use OCuLink to connect hard drives. The cables aren’t sold to consumers, and there are two wiring standards for OCuLink-SATA cables that are unmarked (I got lucky on ebay).
  3. mini-ITX server motherboards use unbuffered ECC ram in a laptop form factor, which is very specific and again expensive.

So the technical barriers are real.

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