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Everything has a place. Some of my friends may be extremely accomplished professionals but they have essentially zero interest in maintaining an IT infrastructure. Thus, there always will be a market for very simple, adequately-performing storage - either on-site or in the cloud. That’s Synologys target and the hardware works well enough for that purpose.
Where people can get into trouble is the unicorn solutions that the likes of QNAP, ReadyNAS, and Synology occasionally come up with such as the “DAS/NAS” that QNAP once marketed. It’s not a DAS using Thunderbolt, it’s Ethernet over Thunderbolt and any device on the Thunderbolt bus is taken over by the QNAP NAS by default. That’s a problem if you have a computer with just one Thunderbolt port and would like to use a monitor also (Hello, MacBook Air).
so the cloud has its place and its yet another tool to use and better than nothing when it comes to off-site backups.
Where people can get into trouble is the unicorn solutions that the likes of QNAP, ReadyNAS, and Synology occasionally come up with such as the “DAS/NAS” that QNAP once marketed. It’s not a DAS using Thunderbolt, it’s Ethernet over Thunderbolt and any device on the Thunderbolt bus is taken over by the QNAP NAS by default. That’s a problem if you have a computer with just one Thunderbolt port and would like to use a monitor also (Hello, MacBook Air).
so the cloud has its place and its yet another tool to use and better than nothing when it comes to off-site backups.