They’ve not been competitive for years now at the prices they charge. Now they do anti consumer stuff like this.
I’ll never buy from them again as long as they do this. I’ve owned four of their NASes. Fuck them. Hope my current rig lasts many years and they have time to see sales dive and reverse course before I need to reinvest. Even then, I probably won’t choose them again on principle.
What’s the alternative though? I’m not going to fuck around with having a home server and proxmox, I tried that once and it was a nightmare and simply not worth my time. My use case is having backups for my small business from 1 location to another and using the synology drive as cloud solution.
I buy a synology box, throw in a drive and don’t look back until I buy another one. That’s worth the extra money to me. No hassle, it just works and doesn’t cost me any money or time having to configure all kinds of crap.
Yeah don’t think I approve of any of this. In my opinion synology can at a bag of… well you know what.
I’d love to hear good alternatives from people though (genuinely since I will consider switching there is a competitor that offers the same value and ease of use).
This sums it up for me as well
Moi aussi.
Is there one tech business that can avoid tripping over their own dick?
Apparently not.
Endless growth is untenable, but it is the law of all investing and shareholders will always demand it. That’s why any for-profit corporation will necessarily enshittify sooner or later.
And yet it’s only been in the last 10-15 years that corporations have gone completely apeshit like this: objectively bad decisions that specifically injure their customer base.
One major difference is the relative lack of regulation on many industries now. It’s far easier to screw over the consumer than it used to be. It’s also far easier to buy out any potential competition.
Steam?
I dislike writing these articles, but here we are. According to HardwareLuxx, Synology is on a rough course with generations-old sub-par NAS hardware and now appears to be locking its NAS units to its own branded hard drives in its upcoming 2025 Plus models. This is a shame since a few years ago, Synology had neat hardware.
they didn’t have neat hardware they had reasonably good software and played nice with any HDD
They were very convenient and made the nas into an appliance. But the hardware was never that robust. Just came in a nice package with easy to use software.
lol is it just me/Arctic or is that image a little too small
Looks fine to me on Jerboa.
Good to know. Looks smaller than an emoji over here
