yeah but when it's running a lot of proprietary, closed-off code on top of your data -- can you say, for sure, that it's not doing something shady? meanwhile y

yeah but when it's running a lot of proprietary, closed-off code on top of your data -- can you say, for sure, that it's not doing something shady? meanwhile you can build a barebones server for the same or less price as the Synology device + drives, and slap Debian on it. or just put any nix OS on the Synology box, but that defeats half the purpose of having it. and to the parent poster's point, they're generally a reputable company -- I have one of their 4-bay NAS units -- and I'm not especially concerned since its just a media server, but it is* something to think about