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NASCompares lists ten ways NAS products are getting worse, from soldered components to software decisions that make owners depend more heavily on the vendor.
HN did not agree that every convergence is bad: some readers want a simple Ubuntu-and-ZFS box, while others prefer vendors to use maintained Linux foundations instead of proprietary stacks.
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Ubiquiti's Enterprise NAS runs plain OpenZFS, 16 bays, 64GB ECC, dual 25GbE, and explicitly 'no firmware restrictions on drive models' — a line readers took as a direct dig at Synology's drive whitelist.
The reassurance that won the thread: if Ubiquiti ghosts the product, you pull the disks and `zpool import` them on any other box. The worry that wouldn't go away: an 8-core Arm chip that on the cheaper UNAS Pro 8 already can't keep its own 10GbE link fed.
