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How long until this moves to the consumer nas’s?
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I honestly would not fault them for it considering the shenanigans in HDDs in recent years.
And who knows maybe something good will come of it too when drive vendors go back to making drives and not shenanigans to be able to compete…
I hope they don’t explicitly block drives on the consumer side. They do have a compatibility list which is nice. Selling rebranded drives for consumer level NAS would also be a good easy button for newbies.
I know Synology units run on Linux but I’m curious how easy/hard it’d be to get unsupported 10gb network card drivers installed.
I like Patrick’s take on it. It makes sense for what they’re doing, but if they do go full Vader and alter the deal, then I’ll be glad I replaced the Synology unit I used to have for the home office.
If you can get a package manager running, or some other way of installing stuff from the command line then it shouldn’t be too bad assuming there are drivers for your hardware. If at some point there’s also checks in the firmware, then that’ll add another layer to it. As far as I know there’s no plans for that with other components.
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I doubt that it will come to the home/small businness models. Patrick had a good breakdown of what the reasoning was behind it and it matches his experience in enterprise datacenters. My dad said so, too.
It’s a whole different market with different rules than the home/small business market, and what works in one doesn’t work well in the other.
I mean those are rebranded Toshiba drives and you can already throw them into the consumer NASes too, so that’s already there