Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use?

• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Synology’s software is awful. Simply controlling NFS shares is an exercise in insanity, and don’t get me started on ACLs.

  Strange, I’ve had no issue controlling NFS shares or ACLs. Have set up 4 Synology NAS’s, with shares out the wahzoo. No problems. User error maybe?

  Further, synology is a real bastard company currently trying to enshittify hardware (disk) upgrades, among other terrible practices:

  That disk upgrade thing was a mountain out of a molehill. All they are doing is reserving some of their disk health features for synology branded disks because they’re the only ones they can verify meet their standards for their software.

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  • non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That disk upgrade thing was a mountain out of a molehill. All they are doing is reserving some of their disk health features for synology branded disks because they’re the only ones they can verify meet their standards for their software.

    Then explain why one can successfully use and old synology to “mark” drives as “authentic synology” and move them into a newer DSM model to use them. This means the mechanism amounts simply to marking disks and not binning disks or any kind of actual hardware selection. Which in turn means that “certified” Synology disks are nothing more than disks with a Synology signature. And not even in firmware, but on the platter.

    And that is the “molehill” everyone is calling Synology out on.

    As explained ad nauseum on various yt channels, having a hw compatibility list makes sense for users likely to buy support, like business users. It makes little sense in a home market where users are both more likely to buy 3rd party disks and will not likely invoke official Synology support.

    But add on top of it that there is no functional hardware difference between certified and non-certified, and it becomes pretty clear that Synology is to be avoided.

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Then explain why one can successfully use and old synology to “mark” drives as “authentic synology” and move them into a newer DSM model to use them.

      Because they have to have a way for legacy users to maintain functionality. Going forward though, new drives in new devices are handled differently. It’s basically a quality control type thing - they’re providing the support and warranty for them, so they’re only “guaranteeing” that their checks work on their drives. That makes sense. They don’t want to be on the hook for saying that a drive that isn’t theirs was perfectly healthy and then it drops dead an hour later and you lose all your data.

      As explained ad nauseum on various yt channels, having a hw compatibility list makes sense for users likely to buy support, like business users.

      Again though, the disks still work. The compatibility lists simply tell you if they are officially supported and will get certain features.

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