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Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Synology's telegraphed moves toward a contained ecosystem and seemingly vertical integration are certain to rankle some of its biggest fans, who likely enjoy doing their own system building, shopping, and assembly for the perfect amount of storage. "Pro-sumers," homelab enthusiasts, and those with just a lot of stuff to store at home, or in a small business, previously had a good reason to buy one Synology device every so many years, then stick into them whatever drives they happened to have or acquired at their desired prices. Synology's stated needs for efficient support of drive arrays may be more defensible at the enterprise level, but as it gets closer to the home level, it suggests a different kind of optimization.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Welp, guess I definitely won't be buying synology again in the future. I was planning to transition to a rackmounted NAS at some point and synology is overpriced in that category anyway but this puts the final nail in for me.

It's a shame because I quite liked the simplicity of their UI.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The Unifi rackmount NAS looks pretty sweet imho.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That thing looks almost too good to be true for 500. What's the drawback?

Not available in europe? (It actually is available, I just checked)

Loud as fuck?

Bad Software?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

You have to sacrifice a goat to it every time a drive hits 829374930 revolutions of its third platter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Only 7 bays and small rack size. It's a NAS not like Synology + series.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is that supposed to be a con? I don't even use 4 bays currently and would be perfectly fine with a 4 rackmount NAS. 7 HDD bays sounds great to me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You asked the drawback on a thread about Synology.

Doesn't look like it hooks into their unifi ecosystem which would be a big negative for me.

Edit: the pro does but what that even looks like idk