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Synology is selling outdated "proprietary" NAS SSDs at unrealistically high prices
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I like how they think going proprietary is going to make customers want to buy their products. Fun fact: I'm now never going to buy a Synology product because it now won't work with anything else
It will increase the revenue of their business products.
Consider this from a business point of view. New purchases will likely have a support clause that says they will only give support if their verified drives are installed. When someone makes a support request and another vendors drive is there, they can close the support case until you buy their drives and reproduce the problem.
This is very common in enterprise equipment. Not using a Cisco SFP and your Cisco switch isn't booting? No support is given until the SFP is removed or replaced with a Cisco branded unit at an outrageous markup.
I would not buy synology at an enterprise level. I would use a NetApp.
Also we use non-Cisco optics all the time, but keep just a few (genuine Cisco) around. So we’ll buy a pile of fluxlight optics and one Cisco for a set of switches. Load it with the cheap ones, but you can troubleshoot with the overly expensive Cisco sfp if needed.
WD and synology have shit software. I only want the storage, fuck off with everything else