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Synology, a technology company offering easy-to-use network attached storage solutions, has recently introduced new models that require you to use Synology-branded hard drives to use certain features such as drive health reports. This was apparently common place on the business-grade models, but not on consumer grade ones. Allegedly, this does not affect models from last year, but I have yet to actually verify this because I'm far from home right now. Multiple publications have published articles about the affair including Tom's Hardware and PC World. Content creators like Louis Rossmann have also published videos about this:
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From personal experience, the best way I can describe Synology's view on the use of third party hard drives up until this point was tolerant. The software would complain about you having one installed, but it would still happily run and I didn't lose out on any features when using drives from companies like Western Digital or Seagate. I guess they are now clamping down on which drives you are allowed to use to store your data.
Before you start blabbing on about how I should have self-hosted or built one using an old computer, let me stress that I actually did research this. I looked into software like Nextcloud which seemed promising but according to chat logs from May 2024, I would have needed to add the box to my domain for HTTPS certificates or some shit which would have likely required me to expose the box to the internet. That is pretty fucking retarded, so naturally it's a dealbreaker. After some research, I decided to get a Synology NAS because it seemed to offer the best "zero-bullshit" experience that anyone, including myself, could suitably set up and install. It was and still is an excellent piece of hardware with an intuitive and easy to understand interface, plus I don't need to expose it to the world wide web to use it. I have had one for a little under a year and it's done me well.
From personal experience, the best way I can describe Synology's view on the use of third party hard drives up until this point was tolerant. The software would complain about you having one installed, but it would still happily run and I didn't lose out on any features when using drives from companies like Western Digital or Seagate. I guess they are now clamping down on which drives you are allowed to use to store your data.
Before you start blabbing on about how I should have self-hosted or built one using an old computer, let me stress that I actually did research this. I looked into software like Nextcloud which seemed promising but according to chat logs from May 2024, I would have needed to add the box to my domain for HTTPS certificates or some shit which would have likely required me to expose the box to the internet. That is pretty fucking retarded, so naturally it's a dealbreaker. After some research, I decided to get a Synology NAS because it seemed to offer the best "zero-bullshit" experience that anyone, including myself, could suitably set up and install. It was and still is an excellent piece of hardware with an intuitive and easy to understand interface, plus I don't need to expose it to the world wide web to use it. I have had one for a little under a year and it's done me well.
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