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The Synology End Game

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452 points amacbride | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 06:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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nness ◴[29 Aug 25 08:03 UTC] No.45061445[source]▶
It's a real shame too, I had purchased a DS723+ before the announcement and its a great little machine. The I can see why the Synology experience was such a draw for so long in the consumer space.

The recent HDD drama is death for Synology's consumer appeal, but I imagine they'll shape-out a mid-market/small-business segment for themselves.

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bayindirh ◴[29 Aug 25 08:18 UTC] No.45061529[source]▶
They're probably "pulling a Rolex" i.e. Go big or go home move.

The thing is, the place they're moving a little dangerous. SOHO and SMB using 4-12 HDDs to serve a couple dozen people is a very small niche. Plus you can add professional photographers and videographers on top.

Then what? The upmarket is very, very crowded. Will they OEM their wares to big players as entry level devices?

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Lord-Jobo ◴[29 Aug 25 10:02 UTC] No.45062193[source]▶
They are going to get absolutely smoked upmarket. There's so much competition that has basically no downside comparitively.

And probably in that niche too, once people realize how cheap used hardware really is.

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1. bayindirh ◴[29 Aug 25 10:08 UTC] No.45062227[source]▶
Orico has a 4/5 slot USB3-10gbps DAS box, which can daisy chain up to three boxes.

Get 6 boxes, daisy chain them as 2x3, connect to a powerful-ish NUC box. Install TrueNAS on it. Use the SATA port for the OS, leave the NVMe slot alone, add a 2-4 TB good SSD.

Set the SSD as a cache to that 30 disk zRAID2 or zRAID3 pool. You can have a kick-ass enthusiast level NAS box which will beat many Synology boxes with a big clue bat...