The Synology End Game

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452 points amacbride | 3 comments | 29 Aug 25 06:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source

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exmadscientist ◴[29 Aug 25 09:49 UTC] No.45062103[source]▶

A big part of the appeal of Synology was that you could just forget about it. I have a little one in the corner that's just been sitting there serving files out over SMB for years now. It doesn't need to do anything more and I don't need to think about it.

A lot of the alternatives being proposed are not so easy to maintain. A full general purpose OS install doesn't really take care of itself. And I don't have (and don't want) a 19-inch rack at home. Ever.

So what's the set-up-and-forget-until-it-gets-kicked-over option?

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1. turtlebits ◴[29 Aug 25 16:52 UTC] No.45066493[source]▶

>>45062103 #

I switched to QNAP and it's been fine.

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2. noAnswer ◴[29 Aug 25 18:48 UTC] No.45067920[source]▶

>>45066493 (TP) #

I find QNAP more annoying to configure. Even their enterprise server rack stuff has Multimedia shares on by default.

3. Krasnol ◴[29 Aug 25 19:59 UTC] No.45068703[source]▶

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I wished I'd have spend some time looking them up before I bought 2 new drives for my old Synology. The new QNAP is so much better. I'd have switched just for the UI already..

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