Selfhosted

Actually perfect timing (for me, it's all in all terrible)... I was about to buy myself a NAS and struggled to figure out which to get, and this removes at least one option.

Well, I had been considering one, but I guess not

Damn it I already own own one. I guess I funded this cunt corporate move

Such a silly move. Like shooting yourself in the foot to sell more bullets

I had Synology for a second but built my own server, went UnRAID, and never looked back.

Yeah I expected that this would happen. They already did this with RAM. They just rebrand RAM, sell it for a way higher price and add a check. When they brought their own branded HDDs, I knew they will pull of the same scam.

Building an own server isn't that more expensive and you don't have to deal with the whole lockout with Synology. For example I had quite the issue to access hardware. I wasn't able to get Home Assistant running on my NAS. The issue was my Zigbee USB Stick. I got it running to the point where I was able to send commands (e.g. turn on or off lights) but the status didn't came back. I threw it on my Pi3 (now Pi5) and zero issues.

The next NAS is self build. Probably Proxmox as base, with truenas or so as main server and the rest depends on what I might need.

I have a synology I bought 3rd party ram (not synology) and it works fine. Same with drives just bought some seagate drives. Probably going to upgrade from a 4 bay to a 12 and I don’t see compatibility of ram being an issue. I just don’t feel like building a whole racked system I just want to plug and play and forget. As of now tho only thing I lose is warranty cause I’m using not “certified” ram and drives.

For me at least I never considered a synology nas it seemed like the apple of home servers. Especially when I enjoy building machines anyway there was no point. Although I can definitely see the appeal for some people.

I wonder if there are more open solutions that don't require building a machine from scratch.

I'm not saying that they won't do this, but so far their actual actions have ended up pretty decent. I've had 3 Synology devices over the last 12(?) years, and while they are not perfect, they have been very good at delivering what they promised over the long haul. All of them still work fine. Even the old guy delivers.

It’s like they don’t understand their demographic.

That would be my exit sign

That's a massive shot in the foot.

As a Synology owner, I already had enough - they have arbitrarily cut customer support to sanctioned jurisdictions, leaving me without the support they promised and I expected when paying for a device.

Next one will definitely be built from the ground up.

The enshittification/rent seeking continues. Nothing is sacred.

I remember arguing with some nerd that this overpriced shit was not fucking worth it and my build based on old server parts I got from a local computer recycler was infinitely superior in every way

I wish I saved that post so I could reply with this link. I feel so validated. Never trust companies. It’s why I say you should never fuck with plex, even if it is a bit easier to deploy than Jellyfin.

I get why they do this sort of thing but it didn't stop us re-adding video station and h265 support back into our Synos.

Someone already made a script to overwrite the existing compatible drive checker so someone will write a new script to fix the new one.

https://github.com/007revad/Synology_HDD_db

https://github.com/007revad/Video_Station_for_DSM_722

Synology is like Ubiquity in the self-hosted community: sure it's self-hosted, but it's definitely not yours. End of the day you get to deal with their decisions.

Terramaster lets you run your own OS on their machine. That's basically what a homelabber wants: a good chassis and components. I couldn't see a reason to buy a Synology after Terramaster and Ugreen started ramping out their product lines which let you run whatever OS you wanted. Synology at this point is for people who either don't know what they're doing or want to remain hands-off with storage management (which is valid; you don't want to do more work when you get home for work). Unfortunately, such customers are now out in the lurch, so TrueNAS or trust some other company to hold your data safe.