Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
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Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
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#2Their hardware has been dogshit for years TBH, this year's upgrades were to like ~2020 tech and some of these models won't be upgraded again until 2030!
The only parts of Synology I really like are some of their media apps are a very tidy package, I've previously written a compatible server using NodeJS that can use their apps so I think I'll have to pursue that idea further given the vastly superior consumer hardware options that exist for NAS.
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#3My next NAS is going to be Ubiquiti UNAS Pro . 7 drive bays for $499. Can’t beat it.
Re: Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
#4Storing encrypted blobs in S3 is my new strategy for bulk media storage. You'll never beat the QoS and resilience of the cloud storage product with something at home. I have completely lost patience with maintaining local hardware like this. If no one has a clue what is inside your blobs, they might as well not exist from their perspective. This feels like smuggling cargo on a federation starship, which is way cooler to me than filling up a bunch of local disks.
I don't need 100% of my bytes to be instantly available to me on my network. The most important stuff is already available. I can wait a day for arbitrary media to thaw out for use. Local caching and pre-loading of read-only blobs is an extremely obvious path for smoothing over remote storage.
Other advantages should be obvious. There are no limits to the scale of storage and unless you are a top 1% hoarder, the cost will almost certainly be more than amortized by the capex you would have otherwise spent on all that hardware.
Re: Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
#5Storing encrypted blobs in S3 is my new strategy for bulk media storage. You'll never beat the QoS and resilience of the cloud storage product with something at home. I have completely lost patience with maintaining local hardware like this. If no one has a clue what is inside your blobs, they might as well not exist from their perspective. This feels like smuggling cargo on a federation starship, which is way cooler…
> If no one has a clue what is inside your blobs, they might as well not exist from their perspective.
This is not the perspective of actors working on longer timescale. For a number is agencies, preserving some encrypted data is beneficial, because it will be possible to recover in N years, whether any classic improvements, bugs found in key generators, or advances in quantum.
Very few people here will be that interesting, but... worth keeping in mind.
Re: Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
#6My next NAS is going to be Ubiquiti UNAS Pro . 7 drive bays for $499. Can’t beat it.
Looks like their $300/4GB/1U/4bay and $500/8GB/2U/7bay half-depth devices with AWS-Annapurna SoC can run either NAS or NVR Linux. Bluetooth in a rackable device is unusual. OS might be replaceable with mainline Debian.
https://github.com/NeccoNeko/UNVR-diy-os/blob/main/IMAGES.md
Re: Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
#7Storing encrypted blobs in S3 is my new strategy for bulk media storage. You'll never beat the QoS and resilience of the cloud storage product with something at home. I have completely lost patience with maintaining local hardware like this. If no one has a clue what is inside your blobs, they might as well not exist from their perspective. This feels like smuggling cargo on a federation starship, which is way cooler…
> If no one has a clue what is inside your blobs, they might as well not exist from their perspective. This is not the perspective of actors working on longer timescale. For a number is agencies, preserving some encrypted data is beneficial, because it will be possible to recover in N years, whether any classic improvements, bugs found in key generators, or advances in quantum. Very few people here will be that inter…
The point of encryption in this context is to defeat content fingerprinting techniques, not the focused resources of a nation state.
Re: Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
#8My next NAS is going to be Ubiquiti UNAS Pro . 7 drive bays for $499. Can’t beat it.
Looks like their $300/4GB/1U/4bay and $500/8GB/2U/7bay half-depth devices with AWS-Annapurna SoC can run either NAS or NVR Linux. Bluetooth in a rackable device is unusual. OS might be replaceable with mainline Debian. https://github.com/NeccoNeko/UNVR-diy-os/blob/main/IMAGES.md
If it can run Gentoo it might be a big energy savings vs my old off lease machine with ZFS …
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like their $300/4GB/1U/4bay and $500/8GB/2U/7bay half-depth devices with AWS-Annapurna SoC can run either NAS or NVR Linux. Bluetooth in a rackable device is unusual. OS might be replaceable with mainline Debian. https://github.com/NeccoNeko/UNVR-diy-os/blob/main/IMAGES.md
If it can run Gentoo it might be a big energy savings vs my old off lease machine with ZFS …
There's also a QNAP 1U for $600, which adds M.2 NVME and optional 32GB ECC RAM https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40868855
We need more Thunderbolt/USB4-to-JBOD 40Gbps storage enclosure options, for use with Ryzen mini PC or Lenovo Tiny.
Re: Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
#10Storing encrypted blobs in S3 is my new strategy for bulk media storage. You'll never beat the QoS and resilience of the cloud storage product with something at home. I have completely lost patience with maintaining local hardware like this. If no one has a clue what is inside your blobs, they might as well not exist from their perspective. This feels like smuggling cargo on a federation starship, which is way cooler…
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