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

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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] 7 points 3 months ago

People who buy overpriced "solutions" instead of taking the time to configure a PC seem like exactly the crowd to enjoy a closed ecosystem (see apple)

[-] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

Not everyone has time, skill, or desire to spend their nights learning how to build and configure a nas.
People have other hobbies than IT, so if a photographer wants to have a local storage for his portfolio without faff, I guess they can get fucked?
Really with your gatekeeping

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Don't get me wrong, I don't support this. But I can see how the suits at Synology could come to the conclusion that this is a great idea

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The reason why Synology is great is their bulletproof reliability.

Sure you might be able to make a PC perform the same spec for spec but will it actually? And even with these devices, they are so far from Apple it isn't funny, you have to set up a fair bit still to make the most of them. Also why use a 500w psu VS low power consumption of a NAS device.

Honestly HDDs/SDDs are a disposable part of the backup ecosystem, I get that they want some extra money but there are already scripts to overcome some of the existing compability checkers in these systems.

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