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.
A NAS without ECC RAM is useless to me.
I can’t really fahom any use case where a typical home NAS would benefit from ECC memory. These things come with 1-8 GB of RAM and read and write files. At worst they transcode files.
How do I put this?
The chace that an error (that would otherwise be corrected by simple ECC DIMMs) will irretrievably destroy your files, is super duper low. Especially compared to human error or software bugs. And if your files are really that important, you need a proper backup anyway.
And if you have a proper backup, then even the most unlikely unfortunate chain of of-by-one errors shouldn’t matter.
Like, get ECC, if you want. But… “useless”?
Also: I belive the Pi5 features some sort of on-die ECC.
