Low power build recommendation, would you use XPEnology again?

[dannieboiz]

I've been running XPEnology for many years on a ReadyNAS 4200 running DSM 7.1.1-42962 and its been rock solid. However the system is running off 7 drives and it isn't the most efficient. Just picked up a few 18TB EXOS drives looking to build something more efficient and using 3 drives with the ability to expand to 5 or 6 drives should I need to. 

 

I host Plex and Docker on it but most importantly, I store tons of photos and documents that I can't afford to lose on it. I run freefilesync to back it up to another PC and then backed up to the cloud. 

 

I really like the Synology interface. Only thing I don't enjoy is the risks associated to it everytime I want to update DSM. Unless something's changed in future build but I remember the process with pretty tedious. 

 

Been looking at motherboard/CPU to build a new NAS that is quiet enough to have it in the same room and low power. Looking for some recommendation. 

 

There are other options like FreeNAS and TrueNAS out there, not sure if I should stick with Xpenology. 

 

 

 

[blindspot]

Like @Peter Suh said "REDPILL project is open source on GitHub. The advantage is that anyone can become a new developer with a new loader." Right now there are three developers that actively maintain a version of REDPILL project. So there is hope. As for the build the quiet ones are those with passive cooling (integrated cpu/gpu) or with very silent fans (with T versions of a cpu) and SSD drives.

[shibby]

my proxmox setup draws ~30W and i`m very happy with it. Whole setup from the signature, including the router, 3 switches, 2 AP and UPS draws 65W.

[IG-88]

On 1/31/2025 at 6:38 PM, dannieboiz said:

I really like the Synology interface. Only thing I don't enjoy is the risks associated to it everytime I want to update DSM. Unless something's changed in future build but I remember the process with pretty tedious. 

you always would need to check here bofore installing updates, synology never actively or deliberately bricked xpenology systems, they just dont care about our special needs as we are not (legal) customers (freeloaders at best)

if you sink good amounts of time and keep active here then after a few years you konw things and pitfalls and you also know hot to mitigate and to repair but ...

i dont break a sweat, i know i can boot a media with openmediavault (omv) and can access all date over network as before and i have a 2nd system with a backup that will be offline most of the time and will get updates after they are approved

 

if you want a safer synology system you still have the option to buy one and relax (more or less)

 

On 1/31/2025 at 6:38 PM, dannieboiz said:

There are other options like FreeNAS and TrueNAS out there, not sure if I should stick with Xpenology. 

my next hardware will have openmediavault but maybe i will change earlier (well i say that for 3+ years)

 

 

[MariaRivera]

Hi

[DSfuchs]

On 3/2/2025 at 9:10 PM, IG-88 said:

you always would need to check here bofore installing updates, synology never actively or deliberately bricked xpenology systems, they just dont care about our special needs as we are not (legal) customers (freeloaders at best)

if you sink good amounts of time and keep active here then after a few years you konw things and pitfalls and you also know hot to mitigate and to repair but ...

i dont break a sweat, i know i can boot a media with openmediavault (omv) and can access all date over network as before and i have a 2nd system with a backup that will be offline most of the time and will get updates after they are approved

 

if you want a safer synology system you still have the option to buy one and relax (more or less)

 

my next hardware will have openmediavault but maybe i will change earlier (well i say that for 3+ years)

 

 

OMV was very interesting when it could still be installed on Debian 32-bit. Since it is no longer supported today, I see yunoHOST as the better choice, especially because of the great support for applications. My NAS runs best on Intel Braswell with Scenario Design Power (SDP) 4 W
Power Dissipation (TDP) 6 W by 4-core 2.24GHz.

Edited Monday at 11:41 AM by DSfuchs

[DSfuchs]

On 3/6/2025 at 9:44 AM, MariaRivera said:

Hi

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