[michaelt]

Honestly they got into the NAS business when cloud offerings were different, and many Internet connections were a lot slower.

Synology’s market is the intersection of:

People who have lots of pirated media, who want generous storage with torrent capabilities.

People who want to store CCTV feeds.

People who find the cloud too expensive, or feel it isn’t private enough.

People with a “two is one, one is none” backup philosophy, for whom the cloud alone is not enough.

Tiny businesses that just need a windows file share.