Synology Inc.

What's been your experience, Sam? Yeah, I actually have a story to relate to this because something along these lines happened to me recently.

So We have our MSP plan, as you guys know, and we had a relatively new client and we had suggested a Synology.

We got it all installed.

We said your alerts were set up.

And in addition, the backup had failed.

Well, why didn't you guys know about this? Why weren't we told? What are we paying for and all this other stuff? And as it turns out, this was something I was going to bring up to you guys as a troubleshooting thing that I was going through.

One of my guys had set up their alerts from the Synology to go to a Gmail account, which I prefer he'd not do, and we had a discussion about that.

But the Gmail account had gotten disabled by Google.

Yeah, so I'm very upset.

I'm glad I replaced all my Synology hard drives when I did, and even that was too expensive.

Yeah, yeah.

So, it's not fun out there for the world of storage, but hey, hopefully it'll crash soon and take the entire economy with it.

But then we remove airdrop.

what wait what Synology drives now back up there no why anyways some bugs and just kind of cleaning up sidebar kind of important uh the path right here obviously enable pathbar enable status bar the fact these are off by default tells me that apple thinks its users are 10 year olds that don't like to know where they're at in their computer or they only use the desktop and documents folder Also, not having a status bar showing item count and how much drive space is left.

There's just so much wrong with Finder.

It's like blows my mind how bad it is.

The big thing is hit this remote address button scroll down and see what is connected to the outside world.

This right here is Synology Active Backup.

It's currently back and forth backing up this specific system.

And this is an IPv6 address on 443 with SVC host.

It's quite heavy because I've got to fill it with drives.

This here, if you know, if you're watching on YouTube or on Riverside, then you'll be like, this is obviously a Synology desktop NAS.

But which one? It's hard to tell because they all kind of look quite similar.

This is, in fact, the new, new, new DS925 Neo Plus.

And what else is good about it? It's got a slightly more meaty processor than the usual, the domestic NASs that, you know, the personal ones.

It's got a Ryzen V1500B in it, which is not a new chip.

It's not a top-of-the-line one, but it is definitely a more substantial workhorse than you'd get if you got, for example, the 425+, which is Synology's home NAS, which has some kind of seller on it, I think.

Yeah.

And so I've-

Yeah, the Synology is not new.

It's the Synology has been there for a while.

It's got like, 20 terabytes of spinning disk in it.

And I think it's got like 512 gig of SSD cache that's sitting sitting behind that.

OK, good.

Advising an average user or even a local activist group to configure and maintain a Synology or true NAS server introduces a massive operational hazard.

It definitely increases complexity.

A misconfigured consumer NAS with ports exposed to the public Internet is highly susceptible to automated ransomware campaigns.

I mean, I did something.

So the other day, my, that Synology died over there with the bad hard drive and I had to replace the hard drive.

And then I was sitting here one day, just, I don't know what happened, but it just powered off and it wasn't working anymore.

And I was like, looking at it, I'm like, that's not good.