If you are using this primarily for backups I would stay away from HDDs that use "Shingled Magnetic Recording" or SMR as there's significant info out there about reliability (particularly with Western Digital SMR drives) and how SMR takes a performance hit for writes, which will cause your backups to run longer - albeit not terribly significantly. Note that with many NAS units you are buying the bare box, and must add your own hard drives. We just purchased a 4-bay not long ago and are very happy so far, we run RAID 10. Posted by caek at 11:49 AM on March 10, 2021 Server tinkering on a Synology is honestly kind of weird.)
I would absolutely have done this instead of a NAS had the M1 Macs existed at the time (and I would have bought a Rasberry Pi or similar for Linux/server tinkering. And it will almost certainly be even quieter. If you get a new M1 Mac Mini then your power draw will be comparable (if not lower than) a NAS. You forgo the RAID, but the cloud backup is much cheaper for more than 1TB of data ($60/year for the computer and unlimited attached storage for a Mac vs ~$5/TB/month for typical NAS cloud backup).
You need to backup the NAS to the cloud too, so factor in that cost.īut if you're a 100% Mac household and not into tinkering with Linux computers for fun, I would consider instead getting a (new or used) Mac Mini, attaching external storage, sharing that over AFP, and backing up the Mini and attached storage to Backblaze. It's fine and they've done a great job of concealing a lot of the complexity.
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