Google Drive is great for storing files in the cloud, accessing them when needed, and collaborating with a team. However, the internet isn’t always reliable and can cause issues when accessing files. In such cases, you need an offline solution, and Synology may have the best options. Synology has awesome NAS enclosures. Its accompanying software, Synology Drive, packs goodies similar to Google Drive while adding an extra layer of privacy.
Businesses and individuals can benefit from the perks Synology Drive brings. Here’s everything you need to know about setting up Synology Drive as a Google Drive alternative.
Not sure why you’d do that instead of running a docker of something not proprietary like NextCloud, especially since you can run dockers through DSM directly.
Why are there so many comments engaging with this as though it’s a post by a human instead of an ad
Because the script remembered to swap accounts.
Note that there is also other alternatives like QNAP.
And if you want open-source alternatives you can always use a VPN to connect to your home network with a NAS self-hosted deploy like OpenMediaVault or True-NAS.
I moved from a Synology NAS to a TrueNAS for personal reasons, but there’s no world I can suggest people go straight for TrueNAS, especially for this use case.
I guess unless you’re fine with sacrificing free time for something with nearly zero benefit in the vast majority of cases.
Synology is just easy and straightforward. Most people don’t need to become sysadmins in their free time.
One thing I’d say about Synology (and pretty much every other NAS “product”) is that they have been targets for ransomware lockers. I had this happen with a Terramaster NAS I had and found that they pretty much universally have had users that experienced data loss due to these devices poor security (and communication around important security updates).
I went with my own machine with Unraid after that, but TrueNAS is also a good solution that receives regular updates.
I would not trust QNAP they had a lot very serious security issues in the past and have read only bad reviews about them.
Gotta lock down those photo backups of my cat. 💪
Would you happen to know of any good reading material to get a VPN set up to my home? I have OMV set up on a Pi, and Pi-Hole set up on another Pi. It’d be great to be able to access that stuff while I’m away.
That looks mad simple, thank you so much! I tried setting up docker and had zero success. It’d be nice to run OMV and PiHole and everything off’a one Pi, but I’ve just been getting more Pis.
I’ll give this a shot!
I think now you need to use the Wireguard plugin instead of the OpenVPN one.