Synology NAS

“it's not perfect, i need to run more on the synology than is ideal for containerized reliability reasons”

“I had an synology NAS power blip which caused a long term time machine to become completely corrupt”

“On a trusted LAN, it runs much quicker that way than with rsync-over-ssh”

“this thing with locking down features to require their own branded drives is madness”

“Synology's latest headline features are only available to people using solely Synology's own hard drives.”

“click a couple of widgets, and that's it”

“they look perfect except for the fact that they don't support ZFS only Btrfs”

“simply because I don't want to have to manage technology to that degree at home”

“I haven't considered OpenZFS yet, mainly because my Synology does not support it”

“doubled my overall available storage space”

“You can get the 8-bay Synology, with its two expansion chassis that's room for about eighteen 24tb drives.”

“It'll hold an eighth of a petabyte pretty comfortably (with sufficient redundancy).”

“Newest Synology hardware has lifted the HDD locks but still doesn't allow third party SSD and RAM”

“Synology tried to vendor-lock their customers for profit, and even though they didn't follow through, they told us what they stand for”

“Synology works with any hard drive. I bought a new unit and installed WD drives in it.”

“It's the same story as Synology with their forced reliance on specific hard drives.”

“I know Synology's considered an evil company now because they seem to tie you to their own hard drives now”

“I've been very content moving away from OneDrive/GDrive to a personal NAS setup with Synology/Ugreen.”

“Careful! I bought a Synology NAS for this purpose and something happened w/ an apparently customer-hostile update”

“something happened w/ an apparently customer-hostile update bc the drive no longer mounts”

“Synology has helpful apps for all platforms that allow connecting and listening to the music.”

“still a decent machine, but I use voodoo to run recent software on it”

“mainly because of other issues like they restricting what RAM I can use or what I want to use the M2 slots for”

“It has kinda worked out great.”

“expecting to use an appliance that happens to be Linux-based as a generic Linux server is going to lead to challenges”

“The extremely old kernel on Synology makes it hard or impossible to run some containers.”

“10+ years uptime if you leave it alone”

“For this purpose, I find Synology rock solid and I've been very happy with them.”

“Synology feels a bit restricted, indeed. Although there is some value in a stable core system”

“NAS products like Synology that are sold with a high markup”

“QNAP and Synology pricing is rent seeking behavior on per drive bay pricing models”

“Synology NASes have a super, super easy to setup way to do all of this stuff”

“I've got a synology, it works.”

“Synology adds some additional logic to automatically recover data from other RAID drives when the BTRFS layer encounters a checksum failure.”

“you can literally forget that it's not someone else's cloud”

“I love synology; bought one around 2018, runs nicely until this day”

“you can literally forget that it's not someone else's cloud. It auto updates on Sundays, always comes online again”

“just buy some 1-2 bay Synology and forget about it”

“all it took was buying a consumer Syno NAS, turning on the VPN server and connecting a DDNS service”

“For your use case have you thought about VPN into your local network, via e.g. a Synology box? It's pretty cool and easy to set up.”