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Sarah Brown
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Anyone know about Synologies?

I have a Drobo 5N2, which is obviously orphanware.

I want a Synology to do much the same job. What should I get?

David Gerard
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@goatsarah so i have a Synology and it was a bad experience because:

1. they will happily sell small ones where the hardware just isn't up to running the current bloated version of the OS

(specifically I got a DS216 then discovered this new device was below the *stated* reqs)

2. the BIOS is DRMed so you can't just put Debian on it or something sensible.

i have cut down enough of the software, including forcibly deleting bloated shit and making it impossible to auto-reinstall it, that it can serve SMB without running out of CPU

if this thing blows up or catches fire I'll probably get an old HP Microserver (near-silent, reputedly) and run a proper OS on it

Sarah Brown
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@davidgerard [circumstances.run] OK, that sounds disappointing