RE: Synology Part 2: The setup
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I'd like to give a shout-out to @themarkymark for some good advice in the comments on the last post. He made some good points about a different way to approach this if you were in some different circumstances than me. There are some really good open source options on the market that you can set up at a lower cost than the Synology solution.
I actually have a Synology here on the floor, I have always hated it. It was slow for everything but file transfers. That's largely due to atom cpus, but I hear newer ones are much better. That was my primary reason for seeking another solution, Synology OS is really nice and it is a great choice if you don't want to run VMs or anything super CPU intensive.
Good to know. It looks like the one I got has an Atom processor, so we will see how that goes over time. So far I am pretty happy with it, but like you said, I am not going to be using it much for anything other than backing up files. I have DELL and HP servers I do my virtualization and other stuff with.