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What kind of fresh bullshit is this? I am not impacted since I built my own NAS but still.

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>Synology's new Plus Series NAS systems, designed for small and medium enterprises and advanced home users, can no longer use non-Synology or non-certified hard drives and get the full feature set of their device. Instead, Synology customers will have to use the company's self-branded hard drives. While you can still use non-supported drives for storage, Hardwareluxx [machine translated] reports that you’ll lose several critical functions, including estimated hard drive health reports, volume-wide deduplication, lifespan analyses, and automatic firmware updates. The company also restricts storage pools and provides limited or zero support for third-party drives.

What kind of fresh bullshit is this? I am not impacted since I built my own NAS but still. Archive: https://archive.today/u7RlL From the post: >>Synology's new Plus Series NAS systems, designed for small and medium enterprises and advanced home users, can no longer use non-Synology or non-certified hard drives and get the full feature set of their device. Instead, Synology customers will have to use the company's self-branded hard drives. While you can still use non-supported drives for storage, Hardwareluxx [machine translated] reports that you’ll lose several critical functions, including estimated hard drive health reports, volume-wide deduplication, lifespan analyses, and automatic firmware updates. The company also restricts storage pools and provides limited or zero support for third-party drives.

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Thank you, I'm saving this in several places so that I can actually find it when needed.

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If you forget just DM me. I am a tech nerd and would be happy to help you out.

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Appreciate the offer. How far have you gone with it? Created your own ISP? Not asking ina condescending way, just something I think about doing from time to time as something I do when I finally have enough of this shit and move to a very remote location (and have to figure out the logistics of running fiber to the middle of nowhere).

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Not that far but I have worked on and built a ton of critical infra including basically designing a datacenter. Its not as hard as it sounds and I do have friends that worked at ISP's that were basically startup's and built most of the place from the ground up.

A lot of the effort goes into getting agreements, political crap and capital to get some shit done. You maybe saw the thing I posted earlier this week about a guy building his own ISP to tell comcast to fuck themselves. He is one of many and that has been going on since the 90's if you know where to look for the stories.