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QNAP has some enticing out of the box NAS products, but I guess I feel a bit better having chosen Synology. That’s not to say I necessarily love any of these v
by jchw 6y ago
QNAP has some enticing out of the box NAS products, but I guess I feel a bit better having chosen Synology.
That’s not to say I necessarily love any of these vendors too much. They feel a bit too much like feature mills that have lower incentive to adopt better security practices and higher incentives to add features and, well, provide a decent user experience. I appreciate the latter, but it isn’t ideal.
Still, as much as I’d love a NAS running open source software and maybe even open hardware, I think the amount of time and effort spent on doing so would not be well rewarded. So for now, I guess I’ll ride the useful life of my Synology NAS out and go from there.
As for this incident, it is embarrassing, but it happens. Hopefully this will motivate more people to do security research on these devices.
- zf00002 6y agoI am still happily running FreeNAS 11. I haven't updated to 12 and it's name change to TrueNAS. Anyway, the amount of janitoring I have to do with it is very minimal. Over the last year, less than 1 hour of time spent total.
- coffee_is_nom 6y agoAnother very happy freenas user, been running freenas (now truenas) for 8 years. Other than hard drive upgrade and one hard drive failure it has been pretty smooth. My overhead in last year has been maybe 5 hours of upkeep.
- s800 6y agoFreeNas user for many years here, very happy in multiple environments- small home/office stuff and larger "production" environments.
- buro9 6y agoSynology on the other hand just remove file systems that you may be using https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26800062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26800062
- LeoPanthera 6y agoYour one-line summary of the situation is wildly misleading. You had to migrate disks from devices that support btrfs to devices which were advertised as not supporting it, but it just happened to work.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoIt was claimed that there was (briefly?) an option right in the GUI to create a BTRFS setup, with no need to migrate anything. Was this incorrect?
- LeoPanthera 6y agoI believe so.