A new kit transforms the Raspberry Pi 5 into a proper network storage system. The so-called Pironman kit should make it pretty easy to build a NAS based on the Raspberry Pi 5, and it even sports a very quick Ethernet port.
So that’s helping answer the hardware question of moving away from Synology, but what about the software? One of the best things I like about my Synology is the fact I can do things like having a Windows backup agent, backing things up to an S3 bucket and running some containers on it. I could probably do all that by hand, but it was just stupid easy with the interface and software.
Check out DietPi, it’s a Debian/ARM distro for easy to use headless operation. They have a selection of well made CLI tools for installing and managing such tools.
So that’s helping answer the hardware question of moving away from Synology, but what about the software? One of the best things I like about my Synology is the fact I can do things like having a Windows backup agent, backing things up to an S3 bucket and running some containers on it. I could probably do all that by hand, but it was just stupid easy with the interface and software.
Check out DietPi, it’s a Debian/ARM distro for easy to use headless operation. They have a selection of well made CLI tools for installing and managing such tools.