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Föderation EN Do 17.04.2025 21:32:40 It's shameful how #Synology decided to take HP's path (and among other printers companies). Somehow, their "proprietary hard drives" are "more trustworthy", or that is more "secure" or whatever... In the excellent article, @kevinpurdy also wrote that "Synology does not manufacture its own hard drives but instead certifies and rebrands drives from Toshiba and Seagate (...)" I think that would be an interesting topic for @pluralistic |
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Föderation EN Do 17.04.2025 21:48:23 @inkvisible @kevinpurdy @pluralistic I’m in the market for some racked lowish-end NAS equipment. List just got shorter. ”Good”. |
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Föderation EN Do 17.04.2025 22:22:56 @joakimfors @inkvisible @kevinpurdy @pluralistic Got a Supermicro CSE-826 with an decent backplane from a local shop selling enterprise equipment for $150. I’ve been trying my darnest to get as comfortable as I can with a variety of standards/hardware so I can avoid stuff like this. Still have a lot to learn though and it is a challenge. |
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Föderation EN Do 17.04.2025 22:40:11 @MidniteMikeWrites @inkvisible @kevinpurdy @pluralistic Yeah. I’ll probably get some supermicro stuff and put Rockstore or plain Debian on them |
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Föderation EN Do 17.04.2025 23:06:33 @inkvisible @kevinpurdy @pluralistic another formerly good corporation commits suicide by enshitfication. RIP Synology. The model I have already has some limitations on non-branded SSDs and I was mad when I found out about that. |
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Föderation EN Do 17.04.2025 23:15:45 @retrovg @inkvisible @kevinpurdy @pluralistic I'd like to know any details around that since I'm literally 2 hours away from picking up a 2-bay DS723+ and planning to populate it with drives I'm "shucking" from Seagate backup externals. |
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Föderation EN Do 17.04.2025 23:27:14 @soviut @inkvisible @kevinpurdy @pluralistic same case as my device, it has two NVMe ports which it can only use to create another set of volumes if they are Synology-branded. With other brands, they can only be used as a cache for the volumes on HDDs. |
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Föderation EN Do 17.04.2025 23:30:04 @retrovg @inkvisible @kevinpurdy @pluralistic Synology By "synology branded" I'm guessing you mean "synology approved"? I'm just worried these drives I'm pulling from the backup enclosers aren't going to work for some reason. |
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Föderation EN Do 17.04.2025 23:49:20 @soviut @inkvisible @kevinpurdy @pluralistic all HDDs will work so that's not a problem. The NVMes (which are full optional) only allow storing data on their own branded sticks, or caching on any brand. |
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Föderation EN Do 17.04.2025 23:50:44 @retrovg @inkvisible @kevinpurdy @pluralistic Okay, thanks for the clarification. I didn't even know Synology had their own NVMe storage. |
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Föderation EN Do 17.04.2025 23:31:06 @retrovg @inkvisible @kevinpurdy @pluralistic They already do this with their XS series models, although the main practical limitation is just some warning messages. You can add non-Synology drives to the compatibility list to get rid of the warnings by running this script: |
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Föderation EN Do 17.04.2025 23:24:49 @inkvisible @kevinpurdy @pluralistic What a load of 💩 If it was essential, there wouldn’t be exceptions for existing users (and even drive shifts to newer models) without service degradation If it were really advantageous to have ‘certified drives’ it wouldn’t need to be enforced Not on Synology, but I fear this type of enshittificstion is contageous. |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.04.2025 00:18:21 @inkvisible I've been looking at #uGreen #NAS options. Any known issues with them? |
