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Then explain why one can successfully use and old synology to “mark” drives as “authentic synology” and move them into a newer DSM model to use them.

Because they have to have a way for legacy users to maintain functionality. Going forward though, new drives in new devices are handled differently. It’s basically a quality control type thing - they’re providing the support and warranty for them, so they’re only “guaranteeing” that their checks work on their drives. That makes sense. They don’t want to be on the hook for saying that a drive that isn’t theirs was perfectly healthy and then it drops dead an hour later and you lose all your data.

As explained ad nauseum on various yt channels, having a hw compatibility list makes sense for users likely to buy support, like business users.

Again though, the disks still work. The compatibility lists simply tell you if they are officially supported and will get certain features.

But add on top of it that there is no functional hardware difference between certified and non-certified, and it becomes pretty clear that Synology is to be avoided.

But add on top of it that there is no functional hardware difference between certified and non-certified, and it becomes pretty clear that Synology is to be avoided.

Avoiding them because of missing a few proprietary synology disk health checks is such a strange thing to do lol. You won’t get synologys disk health checks if you were to make your own server, so why is not having them on a synology a deal breaker?

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I was about to give a genuine reply, then I read your second sentence and now I realize there’s no point. Straight to the tired old garbage “boot licker” insults. Have fun.

So not Microsofts fault then :). Universities should not be using employee licenses for students.

Synology’s software is awful. Simply controlling NFS shares is an exercise in insanity, and don’t get me started on ACLs.

Strange, I’ve had no issue controlling NFS shares or ACLs. Have set up 4 Synology NAS’s, with shares out the wahzoo. No problems. User error maybe?

Further, synology is a real bastard company currently trying to enshittify hardware (disk) upgrades, among other terrible practices:

That disk upgrade thing was a mountain out of a molehill. All they are doing is reserving some of their disk health features for synology branded disks because they’re the only ones they can verify meet their standards for their software.

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Actually not in this particular case, the university had MS365 Business and gave us accounts in order for us to use the service.

Sounds like this university was an absolute shitshow then.

I’m fine with the LNP being out of power for a decade. They are trash. They’re Labor-lite. I’ve literally never voted for them.

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What is? M365 Business? M365 Family or Personal? Office suite outright purchase?

No, Dutton did no such thing. He kept flip flopping between just copying labor’s policies and opposing them. His refusal to deal with our insanely high and unsustainable immigration showed that they are not at all “MAGA-like”. Did trump campaign on keeping immigration at near record levels?

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