Drobo 5N2 vs Synology DS918

[ChrisUpchurch]

I faced a similar decision problem a few months ago. I ended up getting a Mac mini and hanging a bunch of USB hard drives off of it.

Mac mini Home Server

I recently replaced my Drobo NAS with a Mac mini. The initial impetus for this came from the fact that my Drobo was running low on space. All of the drive bays were full, so I couldn’t just throw another drive into the machine. This was not an insurmountable problem; these were mostly old 3tb drives, so I could have just replaced a couple of them with newer, larger drives and had plenty of space. However, it got me thinking about what I wanted out of a NAS and whether the Drobo was really th…