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Hi, folks.
I've been a Synology NAS user for about five years now. I started with a DS1815+, and when it suffered the inevitable Intel C2000 bug outside of Synology's extended warranty period, I replaced it with a DS1618+. I was subsequently able to resurrect the 1815+ and it now sits at my wife's business across town, backing up the handful of PCs there and acting as an off-site backup for my 1618+.
I've been around IT for forty years now, including twenty as a systems and storage administrator; RAID and I are old friends.
Before I bought my first Synology I had been running my own NAS solutions, starting with UnRAID and then tinkering with FreeNAS, but eventually I got to the point where I just wanted a turnkey solution that I could simply set and (mostly) forget, and Synology looked like the way to go. I've been very happy with that decision.
Until recently I also ran my own home VMware lab, with a 42U rack populated with three ESX servers, a couple of managed switches, KVM, and a big UPS. I had multi-path iSCSI to three of the four ports on my NAS, and was running a software UTM firewall in a VM among other things, and enjoyed maintaining it all. But late last year I had another change of heart - primarily because I'm no longer using VMware in my job but also because "I'm getting too old for this sh1t" - and ditched that setup in favor of a commercial firewall router and less time spent maintaining my own infrastructure (and a 15dB reduction in ambient noise in my office!)
I've been a regular contributor on the official Synology Community Forum since I bought the 1815+, and figured I may as well get involved over here too.
Cheers,
Jon.
I've been a Synology NAS user for about five years now. I started with a DS1815+, and when it suffered the inevitable Intel C2000 bug outside of Synology's extended warranty period, I replaced it with a DS1618+. I was subsequently able to resurrect the 1815+ and it now sits at my wife's business across town, backing up the handful of PCs there and acting as an off-site backup for my 1618+.
I've been around IT for forty years now, including twenty as a systems and storage administrator; RAID and I are old friends.
Before I bought my first Synology I had been running my own NAS solutions, starting with UnRAID and then tinkering with FreeNAS, but eventually I got to the point where I just wanted a turnkey solution that I could simply set and (mostly) forget, and Synology looked like the way to go. I've been very happy with that decision.Until recently I also ran my own home VMware lab, with a 42U rack populated with three ESX servers, a couple of managed switches, KVM, and a big UPS. I had multi-path iSCSI to three of the four ports on my NAS, and was running a software UTM firewall in a VM among other things, and enjoyed maintaining it all. But late last year I had another change of heart - primarily because I'm no longer using VMware in my job but also because "I'm getting too old for this sh1t" - and ditched that setup in favor of a commercial firewall router and less time spent maintaining my own infrastructure (and a 15dB reduction in ambient noise in my office!)
I've been a regular contributor on the official Synology Community Forum since I bought the 1815+, and figured I may as well get involved over here too.
Cheers,
Jon.
