@jalefkowit @zak As I discovered last night, older models support way more 3rd party drives then current models, which sucks. They’re gonna get hurt by that in the long run IMO.

@zak Yeah, but they’re still a good device: https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility

@zak They absolutely do. Mine is gonna be five years old next year. One thing I forgot to mention is that while they are good, they have been constraining the types of Drives that can be used. Which I don’t like either, but they have a Drive Compatible page you can check against. Just something to be aware of. It wasn’t like that when I bought mine.

@zak I have a Synology and their OS is a Linux fork. I’d consider them a good starter NAS units. If you want something more “expert,” I’d suggest looking at FreeNAS.