Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
According to reports, Synology plans to restrict features to its own branded hard drives with the new 2025 Plus models. This is bad
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I see people saying “build your own”, and though I have the technical expertise to do it, the big draws for Synology for me was the form factor and all the stuff in the OS. I can probably recreate the latter easily enough, but where can I find a 2-4 bay system that small and good looking that I can work with?
Something like truenas (or a more user-friendly fork like hexos) on basically any hardware would get you there. If you want something in a 2-4 bay + server form factor, look at the options from minisforum. Level1techs have done some pretty good videos on their various offerings over the years.
That said... once you go full rack you never go back :)
Yeah but that misses the key point. I don’t want a large chunky server. I love how small the 2-bay Synologies are, even the 4 bays are compact. Know any generic hardware like that? Looking like I may move to QNAP next.
I'm interested in that as well. I want to get a 4 or 6 bay form factor for the home that's reasonably quiet and supports easily swapping out drives. I'm fine with using something like TrueNAS on the software side, but I want hardware that fits together nicely and not some sort of Frankenstein desktop tower.
Yes, minisforum makes many bespoke solutions that are nas sized. What requirements are you looking for that they don't meet?
I went through and their NAS section was completely empty. Something like the synology that’s got 2-4 hot swap 3.5” bays slightly bigger than the size of the bays.
Edit: morning typing is hard