Optimum Spring Manufacturing (OSM) is a manufacturer of custom wire springs based on the east coast of North Florida. Marco Fortini, the founder of OSM is a man who wears many hats. In addition to serving as the company's senior spring designer and software developer, he also manages the technology purchasing and operations for the company. For several years, OSM had been using a Western Digital WorldBook II to meet its evolving storage and network needs. However, Marco had grown frustrated with frequent drive failures which disrupted his employees' productivity and brought work to a standstill. Marco realized it was time for a new solution.
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Applied Models.The models of this series are not compatible with the latest version of DSM. For details, please refer to the Product Support Status page. Please note that DS712+, RS2211RP+, RS2211+, DS411+II, DS411+, DS2411+, and DS1511+ are not compatible with Active Backup for Business since they do not support Btrfs. Apr 24, 2017 DO NOT USE THE ASTERISK GUI on your Synology DS system. It's endless time waste,and it's useless. No support, Not update, tons of bugs! I finally give up on digging the way to solve the problem for this Asterisk GUI.
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In addition to using a network storage device for storing and backing up critical work documents such as custom drawings for customer springs and work orders, Marco was also eager to consolidate other business systems and applications onto a single network-attached server, including a new Asterisk IP PBX phone system and OpenERP to run critical business management systems like CRM and accounting applications.
'I began my search in earnest, evaluating NAS products from Western Digital, Netgear, QNAP and Synology among others. After reading dozens of user reviews on Amazon.com, I settled on Synology's DS213 model since among other deciding factors, it featured ‘hot-swappable' hard drives which would allow me to replace a faulty drive without interrupting our company's work,' commented Marco.
It's an interesting idea but I'd not do that unless you are just doing that for home. You want a fully supported PBX platform for business use, not just Asterisk 'available' on Synology. Synology, to the best of my knowledge, does not provide any support for Asterisk on there so any Asterisk or Synology update might cause problems and patches and updates might not be forthcoming.
Beyond that, PBXs are typically high priority and not appropriate for an SMB class NAS device. Synology is nice but this isn't a good use for it, in my opinion.
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Do you not have a server to put a PBX on? What is driving you to want to consider this route?