I had a (dis)pleasure of running multiple Synology units in a business setting. They do die out on you like everything else if not more frequent, the QC is generally non-existent.
Synology's biggest reliability issue was when they used the Intel Atom C2000 CPUs. Designs with those CPUs have a 100% failure rate on the longer term (not just Synology, everything with it, Cisco was hit hard too). There's a workaround by soldering on some resistors to pull up some marginal line that will fix dead units.
kalleboo|1 year ago