If they make it sound like the bees knees for all your needs and it turns out to be a let down that's not necessarily your fault assuming you made an effort to do at least some research before you pulled the trigger. I am hoping since this question was asked 3 years ago that someone has come up with an answer to the DSM ScreamerAlright. So like the OP, I would rather not throw away $1500 worth of hardware to go back to a built PC. Unfortunately in the case of DSM you have to buy an expensive NAS and hope for the best in terms of it working the way you expect it to. You can't really know how successful an OS is going to be until you use it in every day production use. Lured by the promise that it was going to "simplify" my life, but DSM has been a massive let down with a lot of application simply not working, or not working the same way they do on a typical OS equivalent. I bought the Synology NAS after research with the expectation / promise that it was going to be the bees knees and the answer to all my storage needs. Trying to get rid of DSM for something a little more conventional (Linux OS or bare metal virtualization). I now find myself in a similar situation. If he learns that now it's a mistake he won't make in the future. These are the types of things you're suppose to think about before buying an appliance. If he paid for it he didn't think far enough into the future as to weather or not it'd meet his needs. All the power to him to try installing something else. Where were you when OP posted this on July 9, 2019? Usually people oppose my opinion after a matter of minutes not years. Note that the hitch was the power going to the SATA drives, and he had to find a workaround, which in his case was just physically attaching another power source so that they were powered by years later. So depending on your Synology model, it should be possible to do what he did. I wondered about FreeBSD, which seems like an excellent choice for a NAS, and found this guy's successful attempt. Some of the hardware details might be unusual, like where they store and load the OS – I read that it's a separate little flash disk. So that implies you can run anything that runs on the hardware. And the hardware is standard Intel parts. Synology's Disk Station Manager is based on Linux (why don't these companies ever innovate and build a new, optimized, and secure OS from scratch?). It's like telling someone to travel back in time and to just not have the same thoughts and curiosity they had in this timeline. General purpose rack servers are expensive, and cheap mini-PCs don't have the drive bays to be good NASes.Īnd of course at any arbitrary Time Point X, after buying the NAS, a person might decide they want to try other OSes on it, so objecting to the idea from the temporal perspective of someone making a buying decision is invalid. For example, a NAS can be attractive just for being an inexpensive way to get the hardware, a multiple-drive bay device in a compact form factor like a 1U rack or the compact desktop NASes. Different people will have different goals. The "whole point" of buying a NAS is not going to be a universal singular thing like not wanting to configure an OS. A person might always decide that experimenting with a different OS is worthwhile, especially for something like a NAS. If you're interested in installing a different OS (Like Windows) why didn't you build/buy a standard server to begin with? You'd kind of be defeating the purpose of it if you could/can. the whole point of buying something like a Synology NAS or a QNAP or a WD M圜loud is for the express purpose of not having to install or configure your own OS.
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