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Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices (arstechnica.com)
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Synology's telegraphed moves toward a contained ecosystem and seemingly vertical integration are certain to rankle some of its biggest fans, who likely enjoy doing their own system building, shopping, and assembly for the perfect amount of storage. "Pro-sumers," homelab enthusiasts, and those with just a lot of stuff to store at home, or in a small business, previously had a good reason to buy one Synology device every so many years, then stick into them whatever drives they happened to have or acquired at their desired prices. Synology's stated needs for efficient support of drive arrays may be more defensible at the enterprise level, but as it gets closer to the home level, it suggests a different kind of optimization.

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol! Not like uGreen put any roadblocks to running your own OS (like disabling the watch dog feature in the BIOS and some other setting to enable custom boot).
And you don't have any fan control on their NAS. Either you estimate and configure correcrly or you need to schedule downtime.
Actual servers let you live tune (some of) the power settings. Synology supports changing the fan profile in the live OS.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    It's not like you can't do it (I did save the original SSD and replaced it with a new one and installed TrueNas Scale). It's just not intended to do from uGreens perspective.

    Edit: I think I used either of these guides I used on how to open and how to install the new OS:
    https://youtu.be/BWNH_JzMNPc
    https://youtu.be/R8t-Wqx_E3U
    https://youtu.be/yh8Ao5ryOeE

    Oh yeah. The HDD indicator bays are partly non-functional as well.
    But you can restore some functionality with scripts you run periodically with cron. Juat search "ugreen dxp4800plus led cli github" to find it.

    Edit2:
    And I only chose a uGreen NAS due to the Kickstarter price. Because that was a 40% price reduction.
    At least I got a solid Model that is really nice. It also has a magnetic metal dust cover Ican easily remove if needed (even easier than the one on my pc case front panel which is a Fractal Design North)

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