“third-party HDDs”
In my day we just called these… HDDs. Anytime something so ubiquitous has to be labeled third-party, you know who the bad guy is instantly.
Third party ram, third party motherboard, third party cmos battery…
Some companies make it too easy to choose their competitors.
well after hearing this. when I buy a NAS i’ll be going with any brand except synology
Same! I was actually just looking at them. Glad I saw this first
I really love my Synology NAS (DS220+). I don’t anticipate needing to replace it anytime soon, but given how well it’s treated me, I would almost certainly replace it with a 2024 model instead of a newer one if I had to, given this new limitation.
This decision from them seems short-sighted, I hope they reverse it.
Well they’ve been a shit company for awhile. This just seals it for me. Garbage ass product anyways.
Y’know, I was seriously contemplating a Synology for my first NAS this year.
Was.
Congratulations on the spineless, disgusting piece of shit who imposed this decision. I will look forward to burn my NAS and let them know my opinion, for fucking sure.
The end result of sniffing your own farts too much.
Haha wow what an absolutely HORRIBLE descision, wtf?! So glad I went with QNAP!!
buying brand name is almost always a bad idea when it comes to computers.
take advantage of their modularity, people. desktops are still popular for a reason.
The enshitification will continue until revenues improve…
Glad I built my own OMV
OMV is great.
Very True, Though im utilizing a virtual machine as my go to NUC has bit the dust.
I had OMV running on an old Llano based system. I upgraded the system to Intel N100. I just put the drive in the new system and it booted with no issue (after network reset)
I am very happy with my Terramaster running Truenas Scale.
So glad I’m just using my PC
That’s a shame. Building your own NAS it’s not that difficult and a valuable learning experience.
Their low power compute hardware, very compact form factor, and OS/apps are the selling points.
There are both commercial and DIY alternatives, but I am not aware of any that really check all three boxes quite as well.
When my disk station eventually dies I’ll go the DIY route but that doesn’t mean I’ll be excited to do so.
I built my own nas back in the day and it is not worth it. trying to remember an the mdadm commands, setting up Cron jobs for scrubbing and smart tests, setting up email notifications if the tests fail, flashing the firmware on my hba, setting up dynamic DNS, fail2ban (later a private key whitelist), borg etc etc. it’s not too bad if you’re an experienced Linux user but it’s still a lot of time out of your day, meanwhile if you’re a new Linux user then you’re basically just playing russian roulette with your data. building a jellyfin server is a good learning experience but for a nas I would pick an off the shelf appliance every time
I love my synology router and had considered buying a NAS. That’s a deal breaker for me though. I have a proxmox machine running ubuntu server as a “NAS” right now so I’ll stick with that.
