buying brand name is almost always a bad idea when it comes to computers.
take advantage of their modularity, people. desktops are still popular for a reason.
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I've only seen the "non supported drive installed" notification once and in my experience it affected absolutely nothing about the device.
Per the article, I believe this is a change to new 2025 devices. Is yours from 2025?
They're all updated to the latest DSM, maybe any change is just on new models shipping.
We use a LOT of their small 2 bay units at customer sites, and the latest we've installed were using Synology brand drives, so not sure about those
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I love my synology router and had considered buying a NAS. That's a deal breaker for me though. I have a proxmox machine running ubuntu server as a "NAS" right now so I'll stick with that.
Is that really new? My drives are technically "unsupported" but you can just execute a script that will add all installed drives to the supported drive list and then you get all the features.
You shouldn’t have to do this though and I won’t buy another Synology if this is how they treat buyers.
The enshitification will continue until revenues improve...
Glad I built my own OMV
OMV is great.
Very True, Though im utilizing a virtual machine as my go to NUC has bit the dust.
I had OMV running on an old Llano based system. I upgraded the system to Intel N100. I just put the drive in the new system and it booted with no issue (after network reset)
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Hopefully the nas ive got holds up for a long time...
Will avoid. Thanks for the heads up.
Anyone know of anyone else with the same level of turnkey NAS solution? I liked synology for its lack of having to fuck around with random bullshit.
Qnap
Feeling real good about learning TrueNAS Scale now.
Any tips on dealing with ACL?
Oh, you mean my biggest problem?!
I've just resorted to using the shell to set permissions on stuff. For the most part everything works but I've had issues with NFS shares. I think some of that was copying from Windows and Windows trying to do things it shouldn't but once I just manually set things up I was able to back all my stuff up.
VMs and apps run in their own little areas so they just happily hum along.
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They’ve been implementing this for a while with some of their models. There’s an excellent script that is actively maintained to get around their shit policies.
I’m only using a Synology (ds1823xs+) because I got a killer deal. (Sometimes I still wish I went with unraid.) I’ve never encountered any issues using unapproved hard drives with this script.
My man, I wouldn't bet on Unraid not going the same route like Plex.
Ha! I bought a plex lifetime pass years ago while on sale. Maybe one day I’ll switch to jellyfin- maybe sooner than I think.
On a positive note synologys brtfs is pretty cool. If anything, it’s one less thing I don’t need to worry about.
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Imagine making sure customers don't buy your shit.