I notice that their power draw active and idle is dramatically better than any of the custom builds I'm putting together. Seemingly...
I was going to do something like...
Fractal Node 804
ASRock EC266D4U-2L2T
Intel Pentium Gold G7400T
2x dual rank micron 8gb RDIMM
Noctua NH-L9i-17xx
5 x noctua 120x25 (G2 available Q1 2024)
1 x noctua 140x25 G2
Silverstone ST70F-TI
8 x 20tb HDD
(Or really with a Silverstone for hot swap, but I understand they are thermally disgraceful).
But it seems it would still be a higher power draw than a Synology device which can support 160TB also. I have a lot of data. I suspect I would be doing like, monthly or bi-monthly backups or something.
To circumvent the power use I could just use it on Wake on Lan, do the backup, then shut it down again and use something else like a NUC for my OpenVPN connection (probably wiser to keep that outside of the primary server, no? Otherwise the main server is perfectly capable). But there's some Synology features that are useful like the free DDNS, quickconnect thing etc if I manage to totally lock myself out, etc. when you're actually away from home for 6 months at a time, these failsafes are so insanely important to have lol. I've had to drive 6 hours to fix a fuckup once before... never again so yeah...
Trying to figure out my options here.