time to put Synology on your shit list...

[Marzipan]

Synology requires self-branded drives for some consumer NAS systems, drops full functionality and support for third-party HDDs

Are your files going to be safer with Synology hard drives?

www.tomshardware.com

their 2025 and newer products will require you to use their HDD or validated third-party drives. if you use other drives, you lose features / functions and little to zero in the way of support. there is one loophole covered in the article, but YMMV.

the validated third-party bit will only give you false hope because most of the validated p/n are EoL. they also haven't validated anything over 16TB and I don't think they have validated anything current for any of their NAS for a long time now either.

 

[crazyea]

Commercial suicide. They can go f themselves.

 

[Shadowarez]

Good thing I'm turning my Synology to a Rsync server once main one is built and running.

 

[JD]

I felt like Synology was moving towards a "premium" segment for a while now, this just confirms my feelings. Their hardware specs are usually pretty underpowered yet they have a high sticker price.

 

[Shadowarez]

like my current a amd A1000 not very good for a vm even a super gutted win 10 with 32gb of ram is lagy AF.

 

[Caldezar]

In most cases, you're way better off with a cheap pc running unraid anyway. I get that it's not as 'turnkey' for the average user, but everyone here can get their hands on far superior budget hardware for way less than a decent synology. Then just add the drives of your choice and go. For everyone else, I guess there's always QNAP, Terramaster and Asustor.

 

[Izerous]

I had 6 NASes here at one point that i got from various sources. The 2 that survived the purge are both QNAPs and one will be rigged up as offsite backup.

Chances are if I was to go out and buy brand new I'd end up with asustor or ubiquiti NAS. Terramaster isn't one I have looked at.

Synology also took down ALL of their older revision firmware. For the older Synology I sold of recently I actually had to scour web archives to find the firmware for it to get it factory reset. So they were honestly already on my annoyed list.

 

[Caldezar]

There's always this bad boy...

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www.aliexpress.com

Good price for a 4 bay m.2 NAS. And impossible to beat if you're short on space.

 

[Izerous]

There's always this bad boy...

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www.aliexpress.com

Good price for a 4 bay m.2 NAS. And impossible to beat if you're short on space.

ServeTheHome or someone else had a recent video on that one. Their biggest comment was how hot the drives get and causing crashing issues as a side result when doing transfers. Resorted to having hr-09 heatsink sticking off a drive with the cover off as a result to get it to work reliably.

 

[gingerbee]

just another reason to build your own. total BS IMHO