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this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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Yeah, my main thought was this is free(minus power costs of course), which is why I went with it.
I looked into different Synology solutions with some kind of host such as your setup, how are you liking Synology as a NAS and does the Optiplex as a host give you any draw backs(NIC/CPU/Memory maxing out, etc)?
Synology is good. I upgraded the RAM in it to 8GB and populated it with 3x8TB Ironwolf drives. It's the backup target for all other machines on my network as well as running just under 40 docker containers. It's just not beefy enough to run VM's tho. The Optiplex machine just runs blue iris since it's a windows app. This one I added a 500GB SSD and left it at stock 4GB RAM. It works well with blueiris so long as you turn on intel native encoding and don't try to reencode anything onto the stream like date/time stamps. Don't have any issues with resources on it.
Free is good, and admittedly you have much more headroom to do fun things on your hardware :)