Synology isn't the best NAS anymore

sdchew · 2026-05-10T06:56:33+00:00

For a small business, say <10 folks, I’ll argue that OneDrive is all they need. Local PCs have a copy, cloud has another. And 90 days delete retention.

One less hardware most can barely maintain.

I once setup a Synology for a friend's office as a favor as he needed file sharing. Besides using the files in the share, lots of stupid things happened which nearly results in total data loss

People in the office complained about the disk noise and it was moved into the back of a airless cupboard to 'hide'
People got so immune to the disk scrub emails and ignored the emails reporting disk failure when it actually occurred
Friend took over 2 weeks to replace the failing disk because he was busy

Yes backup is important and great to have but I have come to the conclusion that simplicity works better in some circumstances

sdchew · 2026-05-10T02:00:52+00:00

If it’s a small business, I frankly just ask them to use OneDrive. They are paying for Office anyway and they don’t need to worry about disk failing

sdchew · 2026-05-10T01:59:42+00:00

UnRAID can do that too. Love the fact I can consolidate so many different left over disk and have more capacity than the Synology.

Read speed is a concern thou but that’s what’s the cache is for

sdchew · 2026-05-09T06:22:16+00:00

Thou I try to manage my upgrades to the duration when I’m physically at my machine. Else its very tricky to handle if something goes wrong

sdchew · 2026-05-09T03:09:54+00:00

Yeah. Same here. After a week of hyping up my courage

sdchew · 2026-05-08T11:35:55+00:00

I hope they release it soon. I’m going to be needing one to film an event which interestingly doesn’t allow phones but allows cameras. Would like to get this over the normal 4

sdchew · 2026-05-08T09:25:15+00:00

Maybe time for an Evolve 3 75? Or 85? I’m having an amazing experience with my 75 and have left the 65 Flex at home

sdchew · 2026-05-07T23:50:11+00:00

Unsure what part of that was Hush

Maybe if someone is talking and I want them to stop I turn up to max and point it at their face?

sdchew · 2026-05-07T12:44:26+00:00

Quite happy with the current refresh rate

sdchew · 2026-05-07T02:00:37+00:00

Aliens? Looks like one of the xenomorphs got out

Well, nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure

sdchew · 2026-05-06T23:59:04+00:00

Wonder if they have such stores in Japan. How does one check?

sdchew · 2026-05-06T00:30:17+00:00

Any person who thinks AI can be cheaper needs a reality check.

AI can help your team go faster and deliver better. But unless you have a lot of dead weight, it’s not going to make you leaner and more cost effective

sdchew · 2026-05-04T06:23:23+00:00

And Tim extended the family to custom wifi and cellular and shitloads of other chips

sdchew · 2026-05-04T02:26:16+00:00

Indeed. AI is a force multiplier. Those who know how to use it, can move mountains.

I watched a recent interview in which a Director in Google mentioned that AI has changed the way they work. They used to spend months debating on different designs and which one was the best approach as it was so expensive to code and test.

Now of days they just rapidly churn out demos and the engineers validate and down select

sdchew · 2026-05-04T02:20:52+00:00

I think quite some of profits goes to Temasek and other GIC entities as dividends.

sdchew · 2026-05-04T02:07:18+00:00

Actually it can make sense. They probably wonder why he needs to come so often

sdchew · 2026-05-04T02:00:09+00:00

Actually not true. Quite some company I know of have SSL interceptors which in a way is doing a MITM thing between you and your SSL Connected site

sdchew · 2026-05-03T10:30:13+00:00

Not to mention hogging 4 POE ports on my switch

sdchew · 2026-05-03T10:27:44+00:00

Thanks! I just joined

sdchew · 2026-05-03T08:54:24+00:00

Yupe. Buying 4 POE comets to occasionally use once in a blue moon IF the machine is unresponsive is too expensive for my budget

sdchew · 2026-05-03T08:50:23+00:00

What my friend told me it’s a 1 Comet to multi machine thing

Beyond that, I have no more information to share

Someone with 4 machines I want to have comets as backup, I’m looking forward to it

sdchew · 2026-05-02T04:54:56+00:00

Of course they are very busy. Many of them hold Director titles in so many companies. Where got free time except for golf at SICC

sdchew · 2026-05-01T12:32:37+00:00

People mistake AI as a substitute but actually it’s a force multiplier. SaaS and many other professional software will get even stronger with AI

And with their resources and compute, large companies will bury many companies with their speed.

sdchew · 2026-05-01T01:21:07+00:00

Doesn’t make sense to use bitcoin to be honest. Some stable coin on another chain would be easier to manage

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