[Discuss] Fun with Synology (was WD My Cloud PR4100)

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 01:00:43PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> Wait... Btrfs raid1? Yeah, it wasn't hard. Synology uses a 2GB and a
> 2.5GB partition on each drive for it's internal use (I think) and the
> rest for MD-RAID. I broke up the RAID6 volume, created a new single-disk
> volume (/volume1) for the system drive, copied a deboostrap install from
> the N40L over to /volume1. Chroot there, installed the btrfs tools
> package and created a new Btrfs volume using the four unused data
> partitions.
> 
> So I get the high-level DSM for the simple stuff and a full (enough)
> Debian environment for the rest. Best of both worlds.

What are the advantages you see over another mini-ITX server
like the HP?

-dsr-