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Didn't they just do a bit with pc world together at ltx?

Lol "home lab equiment"? Try with "actual servers".

For video surveillance, Synology is a poor solution and unreasonably expensive

Unsure on the ltz bit, and yes on the server side though Syno does have rack units that are not far off from lower end SANs (including HA nodes etc) Syno may be somewhat pricy but it's easily on par with Ubiquiti for surveillance, arguably a better overall purchase for an SMB as the unit can do more than just that. Small example would be that it comes with free licensing to backup gcloud and m365, as well as relatively decent performance backups of PCs and vmware/hyper-v all without additional licensing.

They say it is for compatability but money printer goes brrrrrrrrrr.

Afaik they do that only on the bigger rackmounted NAS, not on the plasticky ones

@@marcogenovesi8570 The DS line will complain about non-Synology branded memory. It complains about certain harddrives too. It all still works, but you get nagging messages.

@@floridaman7 hm, interesting. So they eventually expanded that to all their stuff. It started only on the businness-y rackmounted units.

Veeam has a free "community version" that allows 10 VM/server backups or something like that

@@marcogenovesi8570 yes. This is also a great option with up to 10 servers. Their older community version was not limited to 10 but did not allow scheduling of backups. I used that version until my ESXi version upgraded and broke it. That’s when I found the option built into my NAS

Frigate is great. It's more affordable too. No need to deal with camera licence BS and you can run on any kind of server

there are loads of NVR software (open or closed) that are better than Synology

China

No. Enterprise drives are already superior

Premium? Usually the surveillance hdd are cheaper than a regular nas drive or enterprise grade drive

They are the apple of soho servers! Or maybe they are half the apple where the other half is ubiquity

@@burntnougat5341 Ubiquity is the Apple of networking.

​@@marcogenovesi8570righto!

Yep. I was looking for some mention of ONVIF. Unsurprisingly I haven't found anything.

Taiwan is China. Even Taiwan claims this. The difference is, the PRC doesn't claim to control Taiwan. They apply the "one government two systems" policy which allows the ROC to govern Taiwan. Taiwan on the other hand, claims that they are the legitimate rulers of all of mainland China and island of Taiwan. Of course, the US and western countries likes that because Taiwan is subservient to the US and the West while China is subservient to no one and therefore not part of the "rules based order" where US makes the rules and orders everyone else to follow.

@@GR3YS0RG4N1CS Consider that the relationship between the US and the UK is analogous to that of China and Taiwan. In 1776, the United States declared its independence from the UK, marking the culmination of a revolutionary war. Similarly, in 1949, China declared its independence from Taiwan, ending their civil war. In both instances, the larger, younger country-China and the United States-separated from an older, already independent island nation-Taiwan and the UK, respectively. The idea of a country already independent-such as the UK or Taiwan-declaring independence again is incongruous. Just as it is accepted that the UK doesn't need to declare independence from the USA, Taiwan should not need to declare independence from China, because both island nations were already recognized as independent entities when the younger countries separated. The scenario of the United States asserting that the UK belongs to it, or the idea of Taiwan "reunifying" with China, appears just as absurd to the Taiwanese. It's akin to the idea of the UK "reunifying" with the USA, a notion most would consider ridiculous. This parallelism extends beyond just the political, with linguistic similarities further supporting the analogy. The differences between Taiwanese Mandarin and Chinese Mandarin are reminiscent of the variances between British English and American English. In each case, a local speaker can readily identify whether someone is Chinese or Taiwanese, or British or American, by the initial utterances made. By examining these historical, political, and linguistic aspects, we gain a deeper truth, fostering a more comprehensive perspective.

without internet access it's a bit complex

@@marcogenovesi8570 Oh, my sweet, summer child...

@@thelimatheou Not even the NAS needs internet access. It's generally good practice to keep the NVR servers/PC isolated from the internet as well. Now explain how someone can get into something that is physically airgapped

@@marcogenovesi8570 I see reading comprehension isn't your strong point...

@@thelimatheou sorry I can't read trolling. Can you give me an answer please?