Those boxes are slooooow, the 8 slot box have like a 500MB/s read speed limit, even if you raid0 8 SSDs, and use 10gbps networking. This limitation is in the product spec document, but with the smallest letters possible.

They advertise some boxes with 5.5GB/s.

Funny you should mention this. I once worked at a startup that stored lots of remote sensing data. Their strategy was to put it on a Synology. When the Synology filled up, they bought another, and so forth. Only some of the Synologys were online at any particular time, and there was no indexing to find which Synology held what data.

Plus, there were no backups so if one Synology were to blow up, all the data on it was lost.

Since they were a small startup it made some sense to start this way, but they had no plans on what to do about it as they got bigger.

Using Synologys doesn't mean that you have to be stupid about it :-)

Thank you!