Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
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According to reports, Synology plans to restrict features to its own branded hard drives with the new 2025 Plus models. This is bad
  • CocaineShrimp@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hold up. Let me get this straight - Synology is trying to make their NASs only work with their own proprietary hard drives? Do they not realize that there are boat loads of other companies out there making NASs and Hard Drives?

    Who the hell is going to want to buy a Synology NAS now? Ffs, some of these companies are so delusional…

  • Crampon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m in the market for my first NAS. Synology made the choice a bit easier.

    Thank you.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Even if the drive prices are not raised to unreasonable levels, if ever Synology decides to stop selling these drives the NAS you have purchased will become useless. Think I’ll pass.

    • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It doesn’t become useless, it just misses out on a bunch of useful features for the drives.

      Still ridiculous, of course

  • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Broadcom released a free VMware again, Synology is locking down their products,… Did Synology just hire some brain dead Broadcom executive?

    This is seriously ‘how to kill your brand and customer good will in one easy step’ type nonsense.
    Synology does not have the respect in Enterprise that someone like Dell or HPE does. They exist in Enterprise because of admins who use it at home and then bring the knowledge to work.

    All this does is make sure nobody will buy one for the home anymore. There are too many other good options. And various open source NAS OS choices becoming more mature by the day.

    If I was an OEM like Beelink or Servermicro I would be rushing to make an unbranded storage box, five or six 3.5 in SATA hot swap bays in front, 2-4 NVMe ports on the bottom, decent low power CPU, and an SODIMM socket or two. They’d sell a ton of them.

    I also wouldn’t be surprised if a Synology ‘jailbreak’ to load a third party OS comes out.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      If I was an OEM like Beelink or Servermicro I would be rushing to make an unbranded storage box, five or six 3.5 in SATA hot swap bays in front, 2-4 NVMe ports on the bottom, decent low power CPU, and an SODIMM socket or two. They’d sell a ton of them.

      There’s no shortage of alternatives to Synology hardware. People buy Synology because of the software.

      • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Tons of alternatives from other NAS vendors, but I’m not sure anyone makes a Synology type box that is a generic x86 to run your own OS. Plenty of tower server type things but I’m not aware of any little toaster type boxes.

          • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.todayEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Yeah I actually hadn’t seen that at all. There’s not many of those toaster style NAS cases, that one is fairly big as it needs a full size power supply. What I have in mind though is basically same size and form factor as a Synology DS9xx, 4-6 3.5" bays, main board under or off to the side, 1-2 NVMe slots, low power CPU. Basically clone a Synology DS9xx but put a standard UEFI BIOS on it as well as a video output. I think that would sell pretty well. Especially if you gave it 10 gig ethernet and a CPU that had an AI accelerator.

            Could of course build the thing yourself, but it ends up bigger.