Sorry for the bad news today but Synology is not HW Raid neither.
FreeNAS use the disks in JBOD mode, directly attached to the system, the same way Synology does but with ZFS vs EXT4 in Synology Hybrid RAID.
If you get a shell into your NAS you'll see the mdX devices created by Synology when setup the raid 1 with mdadm (software raid).
The advantages using FreeNAS are the use of ZFS and all the stuff behind this file system, snapshot, replication, etc.
I move from my old setup (DS508 + DS413j) to FreeNAS thanks to ZFS.
The synology web interface and all the apps into the ecosystem are the best value of this solution, but I'm still prefer ugly interface but a lot of more control to what's happen with my data and disks.
The synology web interface and all the apps into the ecosystem are the best value of this solution
You're totally right in that regard, and I suspected it was not HW RAID (maybe their top of the line products are, I don't know). But at the end of the day, I'd rather rely on a product from a company that is specialized in such solutions than my own skill which have proven not to be that reliable. :D
If I ever try again the DYI approach, I'm more interested in products like unRAID which seem really solid.
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Sorry for the bad news today but Synology is not HW Raid neither.
FreeNAS use the disks in JBOD mode, directly attached to the system, the same way Synology does but with ZFS vs EXT4 in Synology Hybrid RAID.
If you get a shell into your NAS you'll see the mdX devices created by Synology when setup the raid 1 with mdadm (software raid).
The advantages using FreeNAS are the use of ZFS and all the stuff behind this file system, snapshot, replication, etc.
I move from my old setup (DS508 + DS413j) to FreeNAS thanks to ZFS.
The synology web interface and all the apps into the ecosystem are the best value of this solution, but I'm still prefer ugly interface but a lot of more control to what's happen with my data and disks.
J.
You're totally right in that regard, and I suspected it was not HW RAID (maybe their top of the line products are, I don't know). But at the end of the day, I'd rather rely on a product from a company that is specialized in such solutions than my own skill which have proven not to be that reliable. :D
If I ever try again the DYI approach, I'm more interested in products like unRAID which seem really solid.
Thanks for your feedback!