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Synology vs. Nextcloud – Which Is Better for a Home Server?

by ville on 11/28/20, 1:54 PM with 8 comments

• by maremmano on 11/28/20, 5:18 PM

  I think a proper comparison needs to be made between Synology and one of the following:

  FreeNAS - https://www.freenas.org/

  Unraid - https://unraid.net/

  OpenMediaVault - https://www.openmediavault.org/

  You also have: https://xpenology.org/

• by aborsy on 12/5/20, 9:07 AM

  Synology NAS has a lot of good things to mention. But there are two down sides:

  * it’s closed source, a security concern

  * the encryption is bad. There is even apparently a universal key (unless you opt for not using its key management system)

  https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2019/11/synology-nas-encryption-f...

• by smichel17 on 11/28/20, 5:05 PM

  From a quick look, Synology seems to be a proprietary [EDIT: not SaaS, just software]? I'll stick with Nextcloud, with which I am ethically aligned, thanks. [EDIT: point still applies. I'd prefer to use software that shares my values.]