> And if you’re dumb like me, and you’ve used a Synology-proprietary storage format, you can’t access your data without another Synology system I wonder what h

> And if you’re dumb like me, and you’ve used a Synology-proprietary storage format, you can’t access your data without another Synology system I wonder what he means by this. If he's referring to SHR, then it's just standard mdraid and Synology themselves have instructions on how to mount the volume in Ubuntu https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/tutorial/How_can_I_recover_data_from_my_DiskStation_using_a_PC https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/tutorial/How_can_I_recover... edit: He later mentions encrypted volumes but those are also just using standard encryptfs https://www.impedancemismatch.io/posts/decrypt-synology-backups/ https://www.impedancemismatch.io/posts/decrypt-synology-back... This is one of the reasons I feel comfortable recommending Synology devices - there's not a lot of lock-in