My one and only Pi is exclusively for piracy. Qbittorrent, VPN, Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr. My NAS does everything else. If my Pi died spontaneously, it’d be annoying but not devastating. I’ve been thinking about cloning the SD card so if/when it dies, I can just plug in a new one.

And it’s not like they’re actively hiring replacements

If your Synology NAS is in Raid, up-sizing your drives is dead simple.

Pop out one of your current, smaller drives. Pop in a new, bigger drive. Wait for Disk Station to migrate data over to the new drive (note that this can literally take days depending how much data there is). Then do the same with the next old, small drive and the next one until all old, small drives are replaced with new, big ones.

This will work as long as your current drives are not like 24 TB or whatever the upper limit is these days. In that case, you need more bays.

After this is done, move all the data from your externals onto your Synology NAS.

Brace yourself for how hard we’re gonna party

Well someone should

Hi, American here. I decided to end it. It doesn’t seem to be ending. Now what?

Please enlighten me to this silver bullet action item that I can take to end this. I’m showing up to protests, I’m calling my representatives. It’s not working.

This is the first I’m hearing of it

That’s exactly why they’re sending guard from other states

Three times!

Thoughts and prayers

For what it’s worth, they’re dropping the branded drive requirement https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/synology-caves-walks-back-some-drive-restrictions-on-upcoming-nas-models/

The only problem with this approach is duplication. Many statements would appear in multiple lists

Are there any security concerns that this is a Chinese company?

Does it do RAID?

I’m in a similar situation with my 218+ so I’m interested to hear some answers. It’s still running great though so I don’t need to replace it soon but I like planning ahead

I’m calling bullshit on this claim

And now imagine you have narcissistic personality disorder and it hits so much harder

He’s both too vain and not vein enough

Trump hired Elon. He’s still the problem.

I don’t even know what a reverse proxy is