It’s an 8Bay Synology 1821+. Cost about $1300 for the machine, 32GB of ECC memory, and the 10gbe network card.
I have 4 8Tb drives in a btrfs volume with 1 drive redundancy giving me 21TB of space.
All the important stuff gets also backed up to another 8TB drive periodically and sent to glacier.
The way synology’s shr1 setup works seems to be like RAID5 + a bit more flexibility so I can add more drives to the array but as long as they are 8TB or larger.
The docker manager seems to work pretty well. I run a few services there and mount certain volumes into them. A few DNS records and some entries into the reverse proxy in the control panel of it and you can run whatever you want.
Most critically power draw is very low and it’s very quiet which was an important consideration to me.
It’s an 8Bay Synology 1821+. Cost about $1300 for the machine, 32GB of ECC memory, and the 10gbe network card.
I have 4 8Tb drives in a btrfs volume with 1 drive redundancy giving me 21TB of space.
All the important stuff gets also backed up to another 8TB drive periodically and sent to glacier.
The way synology’s shr1 setup works seems to be like RAID5 + a bit more flexibility so I can add more drives to the array but as long as they are 8TB or larger.
The docker manager seems to work pretty well. I run a few services there and mount certain volumes into them. A few DNS records and some entries into the reverse proxy in the control panel of it and you can run whatever you want.
Most critically power draw is very low and it’s very quiet which was an important consideration to me.