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zybex

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Synology has lost the plot
« on: April 20, 2025, 01:56:25 am »

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Re: Synology has lost the plot
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2025, 08:06:00 am »

If this sticks I am not going to upgrade when my DS1918+ goes down. Looking for alternatives.
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Re: Synology has lost the plot
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2025, 08:27:09 am »

Why not just build a Linux server?  Or Windows?

I've never understood why people are attracted to NAS drives.  They're just another computer, and not a standard one.  They have lots of quirks.
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Re: Synology has lost the plot
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2025, 08:30:36 am »

I like QNAP.

I've never understood why people are attracted to NAS drives.  They're just another computer, and not a standard one.  They have lots of quirks.

It's a very low maintenance storage system, once properly setup. Fire and forget. Cost effective, if you value your time.
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Re: Synology has lost the plot
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2025, 09:16:25 am »

TrueNAS or HexOS would be the way to go if you like the DIY solution. QNAP if you want a pre-made solution that you just wanna add drives to.
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Re: Synology has lost the plot
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2025, 09:44:41 am »

I like QNAP.

It's a very low maintenance storage system, once properly setup. Fire and forget. Cost effective, if you value your time.

I hear what you're saying and Linux can be a bit of work for some things, but just running a plain file server on Linux is quick and pretty low maintenance.  I setup a Linux SMB/CIFS file server from scratch on Debian about 10 years ago.  I think I spend about an hour of maintenance a year (not counting periodic drive replacements, which are more of a hardware thing than a software thing).  And the non-drive hardware was just an old PC that was "free." 

I've never owned a synology or qnap, but I suspect the turnkey NAS systems offer a lot of other "stuff" on top of just serving files though, right (via docker, et al), and that's part of the value prop?  Although I feel like there are a ton of support threads here about using some of those extras so they may not be that much easier?
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Re: Synology has lost the plot
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2025, 10:40:20 am »

Crap- I hope that this Synology change won't affect my DS1821+ which is currently running 6- 16 TB Seagate EXOS drives. I've been thinking of replacing the ~5 year old drives a pair at a time with 24 TB EXOS or Ironwolf Pro versions.
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