Grab one of the 8 bays now, this won't affect anything currently released. I don't see me having to retire my 1813+ or 1819+ (both 8bay) anytime soon and both are 4+ years old without a hiccup.
The reason why Synology is great is their bulletproof reliability.
Sure you might be able to make a PC perform the same spec for spec but will it actually? And even with these devices, they are so far from Apple it isn't funny, you have to set up a fair bit still to make the most of them. Also why use a 500w psu VS low power consumption of a NAS device.
Honestly HDDs/SDDs are a disposable part of the backup ecosystem, I get that they want some extra money but there are already scripts to overcome some of the existing compability checkers in these systems.
The other problem is unlike stack overflow, a helpful answer by an AI isn't visible and indexed therefore someone else has to do another prompt for the potential answer.
The metadata server isn't updated and hasn't for a long time so it stops after a point in time and certain authors with lots of books just don't come up.
Given the readarr team are looking for maintainers to take over, I doubt it'll be resolved soon.
Building a simple workflow with AI agent for our community watch group. Also building an open source automation platform, currently working through GUI templates for it.
Only 7 bays and small rack size. It's a NAS not like Synology + series.