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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: 0s | source
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codeflo ◴[29 Aug 25 08:13 UTC] No.45061494[source]▶
The year is 2025. Delivering a good product is not considered profitable enough anymore. If a company or product is beloved by customers then that means it doesn't squeeze them to the max. This is clearly money left on the table that someone will sooner or later extract. High-end brands are not exempt from this.
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blitzar ◴[29 Aug 25 11:03 UTC] No.45062535[source]▶
My 10 year old NAS is a testament to how much money they have left on the table; they could 3x revenue and profits by simply breaking it every few years.
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1. xattt ◴[29 Aug 25 12:44 UTC] No.45063378[source]▶
I extended the lifecycle of my 2013 vintage x64 QNAP (which lost support status around 2018 or 2019) by installing Ubuntu directly. The QNAP “firmware” was just an internal USB flash drive (DOM) that lived on a header that contained QNAP’s custom distro. There was a fully-featured standard UEFI that allows booting from the SATA devices.

I learned a lot in the process, but most important is that the special sauce NAS makers purport is usually years behind current versions.

The NAS finally bit the dust last year because of a design defect associated with Bay Trail systems that’s not limited to QNAP.