Greetings! I’ve been daily driving a Raspberry Pi 4B as a home server for quite a while now and thought it was a great time to make the switch to a proper NAS.
My current Home Server setup uses 2 Raspberry Pi’s. One is where i selfhost all of the stuff i need, and one hosts my website.
The Pi only has 4gb of RAM, which is ok for me. But i can’t really say much about it’s performance. In Jellyfin, it’s struggling with streaming music. Not even a movie, a single MP3 file, it struggles with it.
I tried solutions like Nextcloud for a Selfhosted Cloud Storage Solution, but it would always wipe out it’s config every time the pi reboots.
I am looking forward to buy a Synology NAS. Their Web interface seems intuitive (theres even docker support too) and easy to use. However, i really am concerned on what data can Synology collect off of it.
So, what data can Synology collect off the NAS and is it safe in a Privacy nerd’s view?
I’d recommend looking at building your own with a cheap Ryzen 5600 or something. You can find Nas cases online with racks and everything, and the benefit is you don’t be using some basic CPU. Then you can use some off the shelf NAS OS and you’re done… With the base, but then you’ll have to buy drives just like you would with the Synology.
I’m saying all this as someone on a Synology NAS. My device is barely supported, and the firmware is lacking features for some docker and home assistant stuff, wouldn’t be an issue if i was running a custom setup.