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Is NAS a growth market at all anymore? My somewhat unexamined opinion is that most folks can and probably do just store everything in the cloud.

I would not be surprised to find out that Synology is seeing a smaller market year over year and becoming desperate to find new revenue per person who is shopping for a NAS today.

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Isn't the conventional wisdom "at least 2 backups, one offsite"? My lab gets by with 2 copies for most of our data: one on our Synology NAS and one mirrored to Box.

With the size of data we're dealing with, loading everything from cloud all the time would slow analyses down to a crawl. The Synology is networked with 10G Ethernet to most of our workstations.

It’s not necessary a growth market, but you do get repeat customers (either as hardware ages or when we want to expand our storage).

I’m in the latter group but Synology has locked themselves out of the market with this choice.

Uploading terabytes of content to the consumer cloud just isn’t practical, financially.

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