Synology is selling outdated "proprietary" NAS SSDs at unrealistically high prices
Synology recently started selling a new line of branded NVMe SSDs designed to "supercharge" its latest DiskStation Manager NAS models. The SNV5420 series comes in three capacities,...
This is another reason why self hosting matters even more nowadays with companies' enshittification efforts.
I like how they think going proprietary is going to make customers want to buy their products. Fun fact: I'm now never going to buy a Synology product because it now won't work with anything else
It will increase the revenue of their business products.
Consider this from a business point of view. New purchases will likely have a support clause that says they will only give support if their verified drives are installed. When someone makes a support request and another vendors drive is there, they can close the support case until you buy their drives and reproduce the problem.
This is very common in enterprise equipment. Not using a Cisco SFP and your Cisco switch isn't booting? No support is given until the SFP is removed or replaced with a Cisco branded unit at an outrageous markup.
I would not buy synology at an enterprise level. I would use a NetApp.
Also we use non-Cisco optics all the time, but keep just a few (genuine Cisco) around. So we’ll buy a pile of fluxlight optics and one Cisco for a set of switches. Load it with the cheap ones, but you can troubleshoot with the overly expensive Cisco sfp if needed.
WD and synology have shit software. I only want the storage, fuck off with everything else
Synology: we used to make a good product that people liked, but we have decided to enshitify it in the hopes of more profits.
Synology next year: why have all of our customers switched to various linux server solutions (small customers), cloud solutions (big customers), and other brands (big customers)?
I would definitely recommend against them at this point.
I own one and would agree, considering all of their recent antics. Do you have a suggestion for a good NAS that doesn’t support a 3.5” form factor? I want a small, silent, energy efficient NAS, using either 2.5” or NVMe M.2 SSD’s.
I can't recommend it because I don't own one but I've been looking at this.
6 m.2 slots with dual 2.5 gbps running on an n150 for 200 bucks. And it has a 64 gig emmc so you don't have to load the OS onto any of the storage drives.
I am sure there are a ton of people on here woth more experience than me, but I have been looking at this for my home network:
https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/ts-h1290fx
There are other models too if this is too much hardware
Synology has been shit for years. Don't use them. If you are thinking about them, stop. Go with something else. QNAP would be a similar but better option off the top of my head.
Did Synology forget what the I in RAID is?