I am not sure, if I should buy a HW-Synology (DS220+/DS720+/DS723+), or its better to use xpenology for my needs.
I dont have experience with synology, but I installed XPEnology as a test on a VM on my ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 with Xeon CPU. I like the software.
What I expect to to do:
- Use it as a backup target for my PCs and VMs on my Microserver
- Use Active Backup for Business
- No transcoding needed (as Emby will stay on Microserver)
- Maybe one or two small VMs
- Use Survailance Station for my Cameras
Under the VM actually the backup performance is not so good - sometimes I get 100MB/s - then 3 minutes nothing happens. XPEnology resides on SSD, Source is also on SSD and can copy normal files wo other VMs with full 1 GBit-Speed (around 110MB/s).
No I found mentioned Mini PC for only 85€. Its specs:
CPU: Intel Pentium 7th Gen G4560T - 2 Cores / 4 Threads
GPU: Intel HD 610
RAM: 4GB DDR4 (2 Slots , up to 32GB - SODIMM / Notebook-RAM)
StorageSlots: 1x M2.2280 NVMe PCIe 2.0; 2x SATA, 1x Mini PCI Express M2.2230
USB-Ports: 4x USB 3.1, 2x USB 2.0
LAN: 10/100/1000 MBit/s Intel® I219LM
Can I install xpenology bare matel to this machine? Can I expect good backup performance?
This box should costs 85€ refurbished - an synology station would cost >400€!
Also power consumption seems to be good, as there is an attached data sheet for this topic:
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ThePhantom79
Hi,
I am not sure, if I should buy a HW-Synology (DS220+/DS720+/DS723+), or its better to use xpenology for my needs.
I dont have experience with synology, but I installed XPEnology as a test on a VM on my ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 with Xeon CPU. I like the software.
What I expect to to do:
- Use it as a backup target for my PCs and VMs on my Microserver
- Use Active Backup for Business
- No transcoding needed (as Emby will stay on Microserver)
- Maybe one or two small VMs
- Use Survailance Station for my Cameras
Under the VM actually the backup performance is not so good - sometimes I get 100MB/s - then 3 minutes nothing happens. XPEnology resides on SSD, Source is also on SSD and can copy normal files wo other VMs with full 1 GBit-Speed (around 110MB/s).
No I found mentioned Mini PC for only 85€. Its specs:
CPU: Intel Pentium 7th Gen G4560T - 2 Cores / 4 Threads
GPU: Intel HD 610
RAM: 4GB DDR4 (2 Slots , up to 32GB - SODIMM / Notebook-RAM)
StorageSlots: 1x M2.2280 NVMe PCIe 2.0; 2x SATA, 1x Mini PCI Express M2.2230
USB-Ports: 4x USB 3.1, 2x USB 2.0
LAN: 10/100/1000 MBit/s Intel® I219LM
Can I install xpenology bare matel to this machine? Can I expect good backup performance?
This box should costs 85€ refurbished - an synology station would cost >400€!
Also power consumption seems to be good, as there is an attached data sheet for this topic:
Idle: 3W
max: 29W
Thanks for your answer!
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