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Synology hardware stopped being decent a while ago.
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Plus their drive type restrictions which are poison in a cost-sensitive NAS.

(Seemingly rolled back recently, but a roll back can be easily rolled back itself. I don't trust them enough to count on that not happening.)

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I like the hardware, cannot stand needing to run another machine just for management.
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If you get one of the Cloud devices, you won't need to, as they bring their own.
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