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Do you run services on your home router, your cellphone, and your microwave just because they have CPUs?
Your home router is a pretty good place to run some services… Highly recommend running VPN so you can access your home network from anywhere.
Many of us are sysadmins at home. Home Assistant, home NAS, home DVRs, etc. Consumer NASes are in tension against the DIY hacker / homelab people who often run these things. These NASes are just complicated enough to be consumer unfriendly, but not enough for "our" needs. The author has a good point about how NAS hardware is more integrated - less capable for power users - while the software has stagnated into a sort…
Consumer NASes should take advantage of physical presence. There should be better functionality for a user that is standing next to the thing.
It should have been apparent to anyone by that time that "someone malicious physically standing next to the box" is an order of magnitude rarer security risk than "someone connecting from a network" and aligned UX to that.
Synology is truly dead to me now. I used their stuck mostly happily since my first DS412+ way back when. But this thing with locking down features to require their own branded drives is madness. No way, no how. Last year they tried restricting the OS from creating new volumes unless all drives in it were Synology branded. People tore them a new asshole in the press and they backed away from that. Now their newest DSM…
majority of Synology storage-compatibility-related _problems_ can be solved with this: https://github.com/007revad/Synology_HDD_db - seems to 'just work' unsure about this 'smart storage' as my Syno is too old anyway :)
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> Smart people always get the highest configuration in computers Smart rich people, maybe. Have you got the money for extra RAM right now?
It's implied. Truly smart people manage to become affluent.
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It still makes it a single point of failure...
Every single component in NAS which breaking stops operation is single point of failure. So should those all too be socket mounted?
But, maybe if I try to salvage what you were trying to say: while failures are a fact of life, higher-quality products will try to minimize and mitigate more of them. Making more components replaceable, is the direction to improve resiliency, and therefore quality of the system. It could be impossible or highly impractical to make everything socket-mounted, but making more components socket-mounted is certainly a way to make a better product.
how is this a negative? I would say, please do more like ugreen and support alternative OS, provide drivers and integrations.
Just last month I bought a HP Micro server (N54L) from 2012, two second hand 4TB drives, 16GB of DDR3, and a 2.5GbE dual port network card. All in, that was about £180. I may shell out another £30 or so for a half depth, low profile graphics card that can support a couple of transcoding streams. Reading the article, I don't regret it. Part of what puts me off the regular NAS market is price, but also things like non…
That's what I was running for the best part of 8 years until last year. Was very reliable. In the end I just cleaned out all my shit and got rid of it. Less is more.