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Hello I've been playing around with an old laptop as my home server for 1 year and I think that now it's a good time to upgrade to something better since it feels a bit too slow.

I was thinking to buy a synology but I would prefer something custom because I hate that sometimes the manufacturers decide to abandon support or change all their terms of service.

My budget is about 1000$ USD, I'm looking for it to have at least 20TB and the option to later add a graphics card would be nice.

What do you recommend to buy? Also what software do you recomend? Also could it work with an n100 mini PC?

I've been using Ubuntu server, with docker containers for several services, but I mainly use it for Nextcloud

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[–] Moreless@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

With Synology your not getting the latest greatest hardware your basically buying the DSM operating system.

DSM is a really nice one stop shop though.

Unless you know you're doing something DSM can't support it's hard to go wrong with Synology.

Just make sure whatever version you buy has access to the DSM apps. For instance, you said you use docker, so make sure the Synology device you're interested in works with Container Management.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

Also make sure the Synology has enough RAM for what you want to do.

[–] Owljfien@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

The rat dogs have it locked on mine, others with exact same SOC have it, which makes me very unhappy