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For engineers with enough time (and able to do troubleshooting), no, no advantages.

For everyone else, they do have advantage, most thing you wanted is 1 click away, including something tedious for average "power users", like "using btrfs safely with RAID-5-like disk array" (so that you can take a snapshot of your drive) mentioned here.

Electrical power consumption is a point worth looking at.

It's actually very user friendly.. You can buy a DSM license to install on a normal machine

> You can buy a DSM license to install on a normal machine

Do you have a link to a licence sales page?

I'm quite positive I've seen it for custom hardware.. but it seems VDSM is only available (officially) for Synology devices.

https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/VDSM_License_Pac...

I know xpenology uses the official software, but I'm not sure if that is legal.