Their base hardware besides these upgrades also ballooned in price. It’s beyond a joke for what paltry hardware you get for your money from Synology now. I can and did buy 3rd party ECC RAM for mine. Works fine besides the singular snotty “how dare you” notification you get on a reboot.
In the past sure I would’ve said go for it on “last years model” which had steep discounts during holiday seasons, but they went to shit even before the AI plague.
Their base hardware besides these upgrades also ballooned in price. It’s beyond a joke for what paltry hardware you get for your money from Synology now. I can and did buy 3rd party ECC RAM for mine. Works fine besides the singular snotty “how dare you” notification you get on a reboot.
In the past sure I would’ve said go for it on “last years model” which had steep discounts during holiday seasons, but they went to shit even before the AI plague.