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Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome (www.servethehome.com)
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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

If I was an OEM like Beelink or Servermicro I would be rushing to make an unbranded storage box, five or six 3.5 in SATA hot swap bays in front, 2-4 NVMe ports on the bottom, decent low power CPU, and an SODIMM socket or two. They'd sell a ton of them.

There's no shortage of alternatives to Synology hardware. People buy Synology because of the software.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Tons of alternatives from other NAS vendors, but I'm not sure anyone makes a Synology type box that is a generic x86 to run your own OS. Plenty of tower server type things but I'm not aware of any little toaster type boxes.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can buy a NAS case, get a cheap matx or itx motherboard and roll your own with ease. Where exactly have you looked?

    Here's one such case: https://a.co/d/eUz87Mh

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah I actually hadn't seen that at all. There's not many of those toaster style NAS cases, that one is fairly big as it needs a full size power supply. What I have in mind though is basically same size and form factor as a Synology DS9xx, 4-6 3.5" bays, main board under or off to the side, 1-2 NVMe slots, low power CPU. Basically clone a Synology DS9xx but put a standard UEFI BIOS on it as well as a video output. I think that would sell pretty well. Especially if you gave it 10 gig ethernet and a CPU that had an AI accelerator.

    Could of course build the thing yourself, but it ends up bigger.

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