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Cool. Thanks Synology. I've still decided I'll never fucking buy one.
This is a market where customers buy religiously based on trust.
How do you decide to fuck that up like this?
The funny thing is that reversing the decision proves that they are only interested in money, not customer satisfaction or the product itself.
I think it is too risky to deal with a business that flips on policy, too unpredictable.
"shitty company learning how to get as close to the line of fucking their customers over for more profit, likely to do it again after this settles down"
When someone shows you who they really are, believe them.
Synology is in an interesting position.
They make a product mostly aimed toward nerds, very few non-nerd people will see the point of a local NAS and have the patience to set one up.
Nerds are funny in that they hate being told that you are not allowed to do things with your own hardware.
Synology messed up bad here
Yeah, they’re trying to be Apple/MS by locking things down that don’t need to be locked down.
Good. They don't deserve customers ever again.
https://www.xda-developers.com/alternatives-to-synology-that-let-you-use-whatever-drives-you-want/
Also to mention QNAP with TrueNAS installed UGreen with HexOS
Its poor form to say that people purchased alternatives, but not list those alternatives (apart from the ransomwared qnap).
I built mine on OpenMediaVault, a quick search shows that Asustor and Terramaster are popular options. What other brands should people consider?
I've been running TrueNAS since it was called FreeNAS and I've been happy with it.
I bought a Unas case, went overkill with an i7 setup then loaded Xpenology. I’ve got a Synology without their exclusive hardware.
I am currently building a server in a Jonsbo N4 case, it runs Truenas, but I need three more drives to start using it, preferabely five more, ultimately I want five more drives, a PCIe to M.2 card, two NVMe SSDs, an Intel Arc A310 and a 10Gbit NIC.
Then I can test out running apps, transcoding video and transfer files as fast as my network will go.
Womp womp.
lol.
Still don't buy their stuff, they will find a different way to fuck you over if it's profitable
Can someone more experienced in self hosting explain why I would wanted a dedicated prosumer NAS over just a regular tower with a bunch of drives? I understand why someone working at a data center might want a rack mount NAS full of drives. But the desktop NAS models you see on like Newegg don’t immediately strike me as special.
You hit a point in life where you don’t want to constantly fuck with stuff and want something “that just works”. That’s why I switched from a rooted Android to an iPhone (that and features not on Android). I’ve had my Synology for 5 years and it just works. But the biggest draw for me is form factor. I don’t have space for an old ATX tower where all my networking equipment is. The synology just fits right on the shelf just fine. It also does everything I want with backups, docker, etc.
Could I use an old PC and do it all myself? Yup, easily. Is my time and effort worth the savings? Not as much as it used to be.
It's an appliance. You stick it in the back of a closet and you forget about it. There's a company dedicated to providing updates, and reducing interference during upgrades.
So if you just want something to work, having a company that guarantees it just works is very valuable
It is faster to set up, is often fairly easy to configure, and as an appliance it can mostly be "set and forget".
I will never build a custom NAS for my parents or sister, it will just mean that I will be on call for a complicated machine rather than a simple one.
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