hp printer model for a nas, what a wonderful world we live in.

As usual, redditors can’t read the thing they linked to.

While you can still use non-supported drives for storage, Hardwareluxx [machine translated] reports that you’ll lose several critical functions, including estimated hard drive health reports, volume-wide deduplication, lifespan analyses, and automatic firmware updates.

So the headline is false, you just don’t get access to a bunch of functionality that relies on drives predictably reporting to the host and being specific types.

Oh, and it only applies to the “plus” line.

I don’t even like synology and this is pretty indefensible writing…

Tbh it probably reflects coming shake up in storage where hybrid devices and race to the bottom thinking take over.

I personally run TrueNAS Community edition on second-hand hardware and a bunch of drives. Corporations dump hardware all the time and it can be scooped up for cheap. The newer editions can run an optional Kubernetes instance, which lets you use Docker for any services you might want to run on top. I highly recommend it.

I've had an 8-bay Synology for ten years and I'm so glad to be finally ditching it. It's gotten really slow and the kernel hasn't been updated in like twenty years. I've learned enough about Linux to just build my own, so I did that.

Glad I rolled my own server solution with network storage rather then buying into this. Also does transcoding a lot, lot faster than these. Admittedly would love to find some way to have a working SLC cache for serving files but oh well. Access times haven't been a problem.

huh. for a moment I entertained the idea of getting one of these, but decided against it in favor of a more bespoke and adaptable solution.

i rolled out two 16 bay rackmounted synology boxes at a printing company i worked at about 8 years ago so they could stop archiving all their files on cds and just copy them over the network and then have an offsite backup. i wonder if that all bit the dust because of this