New user: information to migrate from synology

lordbye

Cadet
Joined
Oct 27, 2022
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Hi everyone, I'm new to trunas.
At the moment I'm using an old 1 disk synology that was used for photo storage and that's it, over time you know the needs change and I would like to improve the performance with a self-built nas since I have old pc unused. At the moment a motherboard with i3 - 8gb of ram and 2x4 tb nas drive, 1x2 tb disk and 1x120 ssd (for OS).
I would like to keep, at least, part of the functionality I have on dsm and I want to understand from who uses it if there are counterparts in trunas.

Applications currently in use on synology

- backup of the nas on gdrive space (mainly of the photos I take), at the moment there is a function that allows me to connect dms to google drive and from here choose which folders to keep synchronized and how (unidirectional or bidirectional)
- transmission or similar (torrent) manageable remotely
- use of ddns to be able to access from outside the home and manage downloads or other
- ability to browse through folders and start anything (for example by connecting with a tablet) and then be able to see photos, videos etc. like windows explorer
- possibility of having a media center (I think I saw the presence of plex, are there others too?), at the moment I was using the integrated one of synology dsvideo
- virtualization app to create any virtual machines as needed

another thing I saw that there are various formats of raid, currently having 2 disks of 4 tb and 1 disk of 2tb (keeping ssd for the system) how is it convenient to configure the disks?

Thanks all
 

lordbye

Cadet
Joined
Oct 27, 2022
Messages
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hu..ok
so i need 16g, i can upgrade, i have other 2 stick of ram.
the features i'm looking for, are avaible?
thanks
 

jgreco

Resident Grinch
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May 29, 2011
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the features i'm looking for, are avaible?

I don't have any idea. I only use the basic NAS functionality. TrueNAS is just a storage engine for many users. I recognize that Synology and QNAP have chosen to put lots of "apps" on their devices, and because TrueNAS offers the ability to run containers and VM's, stuff like that can be done on TrueNAS as well, but I am not able to do a feature-by-feature comparison of things for stuff I don't use. Sorry!
 
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