{"id":100306,"date":"2025-10-08T04:19:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=1a389fcf59d5567f15be963816ba543e"},"modified":"2025-10-08T04:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:19:36","slug":"synology-reverses-policy-banning-third-party-hdds-after-sales-allegedly-plummet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=100306","title":{"rendered":"Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after sales allegedly plummet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guru3d.com\/story\/synology-reverses-policy-banning-thirdparty-hdds-after-nas-sales-plummet\/\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: As much as I like the Synology appliances I've worked with, I was really puzzled by this, the whole proposition of Synology is being an optimized (on price-via-economy-of-scale and polish) alternative to DIYing a Linux NAS with a PC or ARM SBC for the moderately-technical sub-enterprise storage market.  \nTheir software has been getting a little worse (and increasingly ancient, I don't know what out-of-tree patches they make, but recent DSM versions are running like decade-old kernels), then ...this shit with the vendored hard drives... and they wonder why their market collapsed?<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=45513485\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=100306\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}