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.

  • Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    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?

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

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        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

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          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