Thinking of switching from QNAP to Synology or Asustor

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Halp :pleading_face:

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Why do you need a specific operating system tailored around storage? Honestly they are just shiny frontends for a more complex backend and they often create more complications than doing things yourself in the terminal. (In my opinion)

Iā€™ve never tried CasaOS or ZimaOS, but I did try TrueNAS when it was based on FreeBSD and just had constant issues with disks being detected correctly. (could have been hardware related idk)

If youā€™re not that familiar with handling operations in Linux, I would probably go for an encrypted cloud provider than a NAS tbh. It might be more expensive in the long run but you will save time on frustrations.

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Iā€™ve been eyeing this case for a while, havenā€™t really seen anything like it before. Power consumption is usually pretty important with these sorts of setups so a Raspberry Pi actually makes a lot of sense.

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Thanks for your answer! I already have a QNAP NAS and Iā€™m looking to migrate to a more privacy friendly option. What would you suggest as the easiest and most private option?

QNAP are not recommended here. Youā€™re now obliged to buy Synology drives for Synology NAS and there seem to be a push towards more cloud integration as @Jonah stated.. Iā€™m not sure about Asustor, but this could still be an option.

That pointed me towards the open-source equivalent TrueNAS.

I decided that I would not choose the hardware myself as it seems complicated and there are options for TrueNAS and CasaOS/ZimaOS.

TrueNAS:

  • R-Series, H-Series, M-Series and F-Series are all for enterprises.

  • TrueNAS Mini

    • TrueNAS Scale
    • 5 Bays SATA + 2x slots for M.2
    • 16 to 64GB RAM
    • 90 to 216 TB capacity
    • Price: 1759 to 2309 USD

Casa/Zima:

  • ZimaBoard, ZimaBoard 2 and ZimaBlade all have only 2x SATA ports with no cases.

  • ZimaCube

    • ZimaOS
    • 6 Bays SATA + 4x slots for M.2
    • 8 to 32GB RAM
    • 256 GB NVMe storage
    • 164 TB capacity
    • Price: 1099 USD and sold out at the time of this message

Itā€™s more expensive than I thoughtā€¦

Is the ZimaCube really private enough? At that price point, itā€™s more interesting then the TrueNAS mini.

Any other recommendation are welcome.