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97: Tempted by the Fruit of Another

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Synology and the Drobo

The idea that you could just slot in mixed match disk of reasonable sizes and just continue to have redundant storage is appealing even to today. But at the same time period, Synology came along doing the same thing ostensibly and did it 10 times better for half the price. I don't know why they failed because they, their design language was pretty good. They looked really nice. It was just a shame that the embedded CPUs and all the rest of it couldn't keep up.

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