Well,
Broadcom released a free VMware again
should be taken as a bait to lure in unsuspecting users before later stage enshit tactics happen. Synology seems to be at some other point in their enshit process, but enshit nevertheless.
Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 day 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.
debil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Oh absolutely. Without a doubt. Broadcom / VMware have lost trust for good
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day 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.today 1 day 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.
HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
You can buy a NAS case, get a cheap matx or itx motherboard and roll your own with ease. Where exactly have you looked?
Here’s one such case: a.co/d/eUz87Mh
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day ago
Lots of companies do. Or at the very least they make them to where you can install whatever you want yourself.
Tja@programming.dev 1 day ago
QNAP, Asustor, UGreen, Unifi, and many others already offer lower cost NASes from 2 to 8 bays (some might offer even more)
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Oh tons of alternatives for sure. Where I’m at, at this point if I go somewhere else I’m going to want open source most likely.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hey, that’s not entirely true! Our place brought them in because it was also a cheap solution! Honestly, it has done fine for our storage solution, which is mostly backups related. Then again, we came from Baracuda, which was super expensive, super locked down, and did break a lot.
undu@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Well, Citrix got their CEO.
And DOGE as well: crn.com/…/citrix-parent-ceo-krause-on-doge-role-w…
oppy1984@lemm.ee 1 day ago
My employer uses Citrix to run our proprietary apps. Every “upgrade” they issued just made it worse to the point that it was crashing multiple times and day. Since we’re a 25/7 operation we had to have IT on standby all the time to reboot the servers every time they crashed. Citrix support said there was nothing in the logs other than the crashes so it must be our brand new hardware.
It got so bad that corporate paid the IT team extra to build a web based version as a backup. It’s slower than Citrix but at least when Citrix crashes we have a fallback that works.
Thankfully corporate has given the green light for a custom built system, so now we’re all just waiting for the corporate machine to go through the bidding process so we can start working with whoever they pick.