> and can't be messed up by employees who think it'd be neat to run local native apps on it, "since it's a computer just sitting there."
Synology actually encourage this. In particular, the Docker package is great and all sorts of uses have cropped up. There are some gnarly rough edges that I have encountered but that package and others make the unit very useful.
I’m a home user so it’s a different use case, but my 918+ is probably my favourite machine ever.
It's our digital Swiss army knife! Need somewhere to run homebridge or pihole and don't want a pile of raspberry pis sitting around? Get the docker containers for these. Ditto for Plex and Roon servers. I even found a container that works as a replacement for the deprecated software that my ancient multifunction printer needs for its "one button" scan functionality.
I put an 8gb stick into mine, giving it 12gb. Officially it only supports 8gb but it seems to use more just fine, 10+ containers can be taxing at times.
Synology actually encourage this. In particular, the Docker package is great and all sorts of uses have cropped up. There are some gnarly rough edges that I have encountered but that package and others make the unit very useful. I’m a home user so it’s a different use case, but my 918+ is probably my favourite machine ever.