Their base hardware besides these upgrades also ballooned in price. It’s beyond a joke for what paltry hardware you get for your money from Synology now. I can and did buy 3rd party ECC RAM for mine. Works fine besides the singular snotty “how dare you” notification you get on a reboot.

In the past sure I would’ve said go for it on “last years model” which had steep discounts during holiday seasons, but they went to shit even before the AI plague.