DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!
THE DRIVES IN THE RAID BOX WHERE BAD.
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Good job!
Repurposed an old NAS by junking its crappy OS and installing FreeNAS.
Works great now.
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If you’re interested in a NAS but want to get a name brand unit that has the OS set up for you, you might want to stay away from Synology. The new Plus Series for small and medium enterprises and advanced home users requires you to buy Synology-branded hard drives to enable all features. If you get third-party hard drives, what you can do is very limited. Louis Rossmann is calling it DRM.
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Yeah, Synology has gone from great to bad in short time. I’m considering setting up a software raid on my “server” Mac Mini to replace mine eventually.
This is sad to hear.
Synology was always the goto brand…
seems like getting an entry-level AMD motherboard with 8Gb RAM, 4 or more SATA ports and 4 (or more) hard drives are the way forward…
And a 10Gb NIC if you have the infra.
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The ATP podcast had a recent point that part of Synology’s issues is chasing Enterprise sales. Enterprise tends to spend a lot of money all at once on a big multi-bay system and likely won’t blink at a 10% surcharge for branded drives.
That does suggest they may deprioritize the consumer features, including a lot of the apps that can run on them “natively” like Photos.