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ChatGPT : une panne majeure de plus de 5 heures ce mardi 4 juin 2024

Ce mardi 4 juin 2024 sera une journée à oublier pour OpenAI puisque son chatbot ChatGPT a été indisponible pendant plusieurs heures. OpenAI parle d'une panne majeure. Voici ce que l'on sait.

Si vous utilisez ChatGPT au quotidien, vous l'avez surement constaté : ChatGPT était inaccessible une bonne partie de la journée du 4 juin 2024. En France, nous avons pu constater ce problème dans le courant de la matinée et jusqu'en fin d'après-midi, le service étant partiellement de retour en milieu de journée. Il s'agissait bien d'une panne mondiale.

Les nombreux signalements effectués sur le site DownDetector montre bien ce phénomène avec deux vagues de signalements :

Du côté d'OpenAI, on estime que cette panne majeure a perturbé l'accès à ChatGPT pendant 5 heures et 29 minutes. C'est en tout cas ce qui est précisé sur la page où l'on peut obtenir l'état des différents services de l'entreprise américaine. Voici un aperçu :

ChatGPT - 5 heures de panne le mardi 4 juin 2024

Que s'est-il passé ?

"Nous avons connu une panne majeure qui a eu un impact sur tous les utilisateurs de tous les plans de ChatGPT. L'impact incluait tous les services liés à ChatGPT. L'impact n'incluait pas platform.openai.com ou l'API.", peut-on lire sur le site d'OpenAI. Cela signifie que cette panne a eu un impact sur tous les utilisateurs de ChatGPT : ceux qui l'utilisent gratuitement, et ceux qui paient un abonnement à ChatGPT Plus.

Les utilisateurs ont pu constater différents messages d'erreurs : "Bad gateway", "ChatGPT is at capacity right now" ou encore une page blanche.

Néanmoins, difficile de répondre à la question "Que s'est-il passé ?" car OpenAI n'a pas donné la moindre précision sur l'origine de cette panne... Dommage.

Désormais, ChatGPT fonctionne de nouveau ! Si vous ne parvenez pas à y accéder, rafraichissez le cache de votre navigateur. Utilisez le raccourci clavier "CTRL + F5" sur votre PC, au sein de la fenêtre du navigateur.

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The Synology Solution Exhibition 2024 – EVERYTHING Revealed

Synology Solution Exhibition 2024 Taipei

(Article Still in Progress!)

Synology has been unusually talkative in advance of their latest launch event for 2024! All too often, they tend to hold back the bulk of their intended release plans for the year (in both hardware and software services) prior to their events, which can often lead to a lot of surprises. However, this year they went ahead and published a ‘teaser’ video that covered a lot of things well in advance. I think it would be fair to say that the bulk of what they were intending to show off was heavily targeted towards large businesses and enterprises.

This shouldn’t have proven much of a surprise, given that is the way the wind has been blowing with the brand in recent years (launching their own C2 cloud platform, their own branded storage media, a shifting focus in services designed to work in unison with SaaS and PaaS IPs, etc.). Nevertheless, the Synology Solutions showcase in Taipei (happening during the Computex 2024 event) has really doubled down on Enterprise problem-solving! From AI and hyper-scale to simplified multi-site backups and surveillance, let’s go over the big plans the brand has in the works for 2024, as well as try to see where they hope to be in the food chain of network storage next year!

The Synology GS Series

Synology is no stranger to large-scale storage. Last year, we saw the long-developed rollout of the High Density series (premiering a 60 Bay 4U Rackmount solution) and further refreshes in the Synology RS and SA series. However, it would appear that Synology has even loftier goals, with the launch of the Synology GS series – designed to massively scale up towards XX nodes (demonstrated as GS6400 rackmount devices) that, when clustered together, can scale up to an insane 20 Petabyte groups.

We are still awaiting details on the storage capacity scaling (i.e., will they arrive in pre-designated storage configurations), but they will no doubt roll out supporting the Synology HAT5310/HAS5310 Enterprise drives up to 20TB. The GS series appears to be in a slightly modified chassis (numeric LED panel and vent fascia) but seemingly will be using similar hardware/architecture to existing EPYC-powered systems already in the Synology RS/SA portfolio. Additionally, as the scale of the GS Clusters is so large, Synology are rolling out a dedicated GS Cluster switch to coordinate the whole thing. Pricing and capacity details are still TBC!

The Synology DP Series and ActiveProtect

Synology really made some noise on this one, and frankly, I can see why. The Data Protection series is a new tier of their portfolio that exclusively focuses on backup management, fast deployment, and simplicity. Arriving in rackmount hardware form (at least at launch), these systems will NOT arrive with DSM (the operating system of the majority of Synology NAS systems) but instead a dedicated backup appliance called ActiveProtect.

It appears to consolidate the features and functions of several parts of the Synology ecosystem (in particular Active Backup) in order to create a 10-minute setup backup solution for businesses who need robust and easily configurable backup management for:

  • Local PC/Mac/Linux client machines
  • Synology and 3rd Party Linux Server backups
  • Cloud-Based Software as a Service (SaaS) data, such as Google Workspace and Microsoft 365
  • Hyper-V/VMware virtual machines

The architecture of the ActiveProtect system also features a number of impressive restoration services built in, ranging from deploying backups of your cloud source VMs to a local VM deployed on the NAS and WORM-protected backups, to simple file/folder restoration and deduplication.

That last one is extra important, as not only does a single DP system with ActiveProtect deduplicate backed-up data in its immediate network circle, but when you deploy multiple DP systems across multiple sites in your business’ physical geography (i.e., sites globally) and have a dedicated target backup for them all, it will further deduplicate the data being sent from all those other DP systems too. You can find out more about the Synology DP series and ActiveProtect in the article below:

[Click Link to ActiveProtect Article]

Synology Unveils Its AI Integration with AI Console

This is something I think most of us saw coming! The integration of AI assistant services and AI language models into the majority of platforms we use on a daily basis has been pretty much non-stop these last 12-18 months, and it comes as no surprise that Synology is now moving into this. But to their credit, they have not rushed into this. In fact, although we saw very tentative steps and early demonstrations of where they would like it to go at their Taipei event in 2023 (see video HERE), they have not rushed into this. The Synology AI Console is their integration of AI assistant tools into a number of their collaboration tools, namely Synology Mail Plus, Office, and Chat.

These tools are designed to provide services that are tailored to these applications – not just a glossy portal/GUI with ChatGPT and other LLMs behind it. Such as the ability to provide a summary of larger email chains, provide context and proofreading of documents, craft responses to communication that are tonally appropriate, and more. Additionally, they state that the AI services will be completely optional, off by default, individually enabled, and have a framework in place that prevents sensitive information from being used in AI-generated content. The extent to how this is controlled and adapted by the system owner is yet to be fully confirmed, as is the level of control that is provided to the Synology NAS owner with regard to the AI’s reference points internally.

Video from a Synology event in 2023:

They do highlight that support of existing popular AI models that include ChatGPT, Microsoft Azure AI, and Google Gemini will be available when the service is launched (in beta, I assume), but I will be interested to see how far the brand will be willing to take AI integration (especially if they are going to allow flexibility in the AI models a user can connect with) as the ability to use AI tools with storage filing services, more creative search categorization, and analysis of system logs. We will have to wait and see… DSM 8?

Synology C2 Surveillance Station and Cloud Cameras

Although Synology has quite a few different apps and services in DSM, one of the most polished and universally praised examples is Surveillance Station. All Synology NAS systems that run DSM also include the Surveillance Station applications and the ability to add multiple cameras. However, 2 years ago, when Synology rolled out C2 Surveillance (a cloud failover and dual recording platform to be used in conjunction with SS), it was only a question of time before they went the extra step and created a ‘direct to cloud’ version of their Surveillance Station platform – C2 Surveillance Station.

This is a cloud-based UI of Surveillance Station that allows users to deploy Synology C2 cameras that record directly to the C2 Cloud. Now, there is an argument that this is something that other camera brands have always offered (i.e., a camera and a cloud subscription for recordings), and many choose Synology for their surveillance/CCTV as they have an in-house surveillance system in a DSM NAS.

However, that does not apply to everyone, and there are several different deployments that could see the benefits of a Synology surveillance system, but without deploying a Synology network storage appliance, such as:

  • Building sites, where the network and PoE structure of surveillance cameras are not present
  • Locations with a largely exclusive wireless network
  • Mobile setups that require camera security, but have a regularly changing physical location
  • Users who want the user-friendly surveillance UI of Surveillance Station, but are not interested in purchasing more than the physical cameras

Needless to say, after this initial reveal, there is still the question of pricing, i.e., will the cameras require a monthly storage subscription? Do the cameras support use for local Synology NAS Surveillance deployment as an option? We will have to wait and see closer to the physical launch.

New Fisheye Camera and 8MP Bullet Camera

(Article Still In Progress)

New Synology Flash NVMe and HDD Hybrid Rackmount (Still Early Development)

(Article Still In Progress)

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Une panne mondiale de Bing impacte Copilot, ChatGPT, DuckDuckGo mais aussi Qwant !

Ce jeudi 23 mai 2024, Bing a été en panne pendant plusieurs heures. Un incident qui a eu également un impact sur d'autres services, dont d'autres moteurs de recherche ! Faisons le point sur cette panne !

Jeudi 23 mai 2024, aux alentours de 09:00, heure française, une panne a été largement détectée et signalée sur Bing.com, le moteur de recherche de Microsoft. La panne semble avoir affecté majoritairement les utilisateurs d'Asie et d'Europe. Il suffit de se rendre sur le site DownDetector pour constater qu'il y a eu des signalements de dysfonctionnement pour Bing, tout au long de la journée :

Panne Bing du 23 mai 2024

Cette panne a impacté le moteur de recherche Bing, ainsi que les services qui lui sont liés, et il y en a beaucoup. Du côté de Microsoft, nous pouvons citer l'IA Copilot que ce soit en mode Web ou sur mobile, et même à partir de Windows 10 ou Windows 11 directement.

Cette panne a également eu un impact sur le bon fonctionnement de ChatGPT, le chatbot d'OpenAI. En effet, ChatGPT s'appuie sur Bing pour effectuer les recherches sur Internet. La page de statut d'OpenAI indique : "De 07:10 à 15:50 (heure française), nous avons connu une panne partielle affectant les capacités de navigation web de ChatGPT en raison de l'indisponibilité de Bing. Le problème est maintenant résolu et tous les services fonctionnent normalement."

Une panne impactante pour DuckDuckGo, Qwant et Ecosia

Cette panne du moteur de recherche de Microsoft a également un impact sur... d'autres moteurs de recherche ! En effet, DuckDuckGo, Qwant et Ecosia sont dépendants de Bing, et donc finalement, ne sont pas si indépendants que cela.

Pour fonctionner, ces moteurs de recherche s'appuient sur une API donnant accès aux algorithmes de Bing. Certes, ce sont des alternatives à Google, mais elles s'appuient sur les technologies de Microsoft. Un bel effet domino dans le cas d'une panne.

Microsoft s'est exprimé sur cette panne.

We're investigating an issue where users may be unable to access the Microsoft Copilot service. We're working to isolate the cause of the issue. More information can be found in the admin center under CP795190.

— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) May 23, 2024

À 18:00, ce jeudi 23 mai, des perturbations étaient toujours visibles par certains utilisateurs : "Nous élargissons nos efforts d'atténuation à la suite de signes de rétablissement partiel pour http://copilot.microsoft.com et d'autres fonctionnalités. Nous suivons de près l'évolution de la situation afin de déterminer si d'autres actions sont nécessaires pour résoudre le problème. Plus de détails peuvent être trouvés dans le centre d'administration sous CP795190.", peut-on lire sur le compte X de Microsoft 365 Status.

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iTerm2 – l’IA fait son entrée dans votre terminal macOS préféré

iTerm2, le terminal préféré des développeurs sur macOS, revient avec une nouvelle version majeure : la version 3.5, sortie le 20 mai 2024. Celle-ci apporte de nombreuses fonctionnalités nouvelles qui vont ravir les amateurs de ligne de commande. On y retrouve tout ce qui fait le succès de ce terminal depuis des années : une interface personnalisable à l’infini, un support des couleurs 24 bits, la possibilité de diviser les fenêtres en panneaux, une recherche avancée, utiliser des fonctions comme Shell Integration pour automatiser certaines tâches et tout un tas d’options pour les utilisateurs avancés.

Mais la grande nouveauté de cette version, c’est l’intégration de ChatGPT, le célèbre agent conversationnel d’OpenAI. Vous pouvez désormais discuter avec une IA directement dans votre terminal et lui demander de l’aide pour vos tâches de développement. Besoin de générer une regex complexe ? De convertir un JSON en YAML ? De documenter votre code ? ChatGPT est là pour vous assister.

Pour utiliser cette fonctionnalité, il suffit d’ouvrir un nouveeu terminal, puis d’utiliser le raccourci CMD + Y pour arriver sur une fenêtre de prompt :

L’outil va alors vous proposer une commande que vous n’aurez plus qu’à lancer dans le terminal. Une autre fonctionnalité IA baptisé Codecierge (contraction de Code et de Concierge) permet également de vous guider étape par étape dans la réalisation de vos projets.

Cette version introduit également des améliorations comme la navigation plus facile entre les panneaux. Auparavant, il fallait utiliser la souris ou des raccourcis peu intuitifs. Désormais, on peut passer d’un panneau à l’autre avec ⌘← et ⌘→. La recherche a aussi été revue pour être plus réactive. Les résultats s’affichent au fur et à mesure qu’on tape, sans bouton à cliquer. Le filtrage et la colorisation syntaxique fonctionne à la volée.

iTerm ajoute la prise en charge des thèmes clair et sombre, qui s’adaptent à vos préférences système. Vos yeux fatigués apprécieront en fin de journée. C’est d’ailleurs personnalisable dans les réglages.

Autre petite nouveauté bien pensée : l’intégration avec le gestionnaire de mots de passe 1Password. Plus besoin de le garder ouvert en permanence. Vous pouvez récupérer vos secrets directement dans le terminal. Pratique pour scaler son app sans avoir à ressaisir ses 150 mots de passe ! Tout est chiffré de bout en bout évidemment. Et ça se configure dans les paramètres d’intégration.

iTerm c’est aussi tout un tas de petites options bien pensées qui simplifient la vie des barbus : synchronisation du presse-papier, recherche dans l’historique des commandes, profils par hôte SSH, notifications intelligentes… Bref, une véritable boîte à outils pour les zamoureux de la ligne de commande.

Et en plus c’est open source !

Un grand merci à Lorenper pour l’information sur cette mise à jour.

Pour plus de détails, direction le site officiel.

ChatGPT : OpenAI annonce une application officielle pour Mac (et Windows)

Ce lundi 13 mai 2024, à l'occasion de son événement "Spring Update", OpenAI a fait plusieurs annonces dont l'arrivée d'une application desktop officielle pour deux systèmes d'exploitation : Windows et macOS. Faisons le point.

Lors de son événement "Spring Update", très attendu par les amateurs d'IA, OpenAI a dévoilé son nouveau modèle de langage GPT-4o, accessible gratuitement aux utilisateurs dans une certaine limite, ainsi que deux applications desktop : l'une pour Windows, l'autre pour macOS. Cela signifie qu'il n'est plus nécessaire d'utiliser systématiquement un navigateur pour converser avec le chatbot.

Les utilisateurs de macOS ont le privilège de pouvoir installer et télécharger cette application dès maintenant. Mais, attention, l'accès à cette application est réservé aux utilisateurs ayant un abonnement ChatGPT Plus, pour le moment. Ceci devrait évoluer par la suite.

Tandis que les utilisateurs de Windows vont devoir patienter, comme nous pouvons le lire sur le site d'OpenAI : "Nous prévoyons également de lancer une version Windows dans le courant de l'année." - Vous l'aurez compris, OpenAI a officialisé cette application, mais elle n'est pas encore disponible sur Windows. Ceci est quand même étonnant quand on sait que Microsoft a investi des milliards de dollars pour financer les projets d'OpenAI...

OpenAI a également dévoilé une nouvelle interface pour ChatGPT conçue pour être plus conviviale et rendre plus agréable les conversations avec le chatbot. "Vous remarquerez un nouvel écran d'accueil, une nouvelle présentation des messages et bien plus encore.", précise OpenAI.

Comment télécharger ChatGPT sur macOS ?

L'application ChatGPT n'est pas disponible sur l'App Store officiel. En effet, l'installeur pour Mac est accessible depuis le site d'OpenAI, au sein de votre compte.

OpenAI a travaillé sur une application complète, bien intégrée à macOS, et qui n'est pas une adaptation de la version Web de ChatGPT. Par exemple, les utilisateurs peuvent solliciter l'IA à tout moment en utilisant le raccourci clavier "Option + Espace" qui affiche un menu similaire à Spotlight.

Qu'en pensez-vous ?

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ChatGPT : OpenAI lance GPT-4o, un nouveau modèle d’IA générative accessible gratuitement !

Lors de son événement "Spring Update", OpenAI a dévoilé son nouveau modèle de langage : GPT-4o. Dérivé de GPT-4, il est accessible à tout le monde et gratuitement ! Faisons le point.

GPT-4o est en quelque sorte une évolution du modèle de langage GPT-4, ce dernier étant déjà accessible depuis plusieurs mois aux abonnés payants de ChatGPT. OpenAI affirme que GPT-4o est plus rapide et plus "intelligent", mais aussi meilleur en multimodal. D'ailleurs, c'est de là que vient son nom, car le "o" signifie "omnimodel", faisant référence au fait que c'est un modèle multimodal.

GPT-4o est plus pertinent dans l'analyse de données et il est doté de meilleures capacités en interprétation de texte, d’image et d’audio. "Par exemple, vous pouvez maintenant prendre une photo d'un menu dans une autre langue et parler à GPT-4o pour le traduire, en apprendre davantage sur l'histoire et la signification de la nourriture, et obtenir des recommandations.", peut-on lire dans l'annonce officielle.

GPT-4o est gratuit pour tous les utilisateurs !

Jusqu'à présent, il convenait de disposer d'un abonnement payant à ChatGPT Plus pour pouvoir utiliser le modèle GPT-4 par l'intermédiaire de ChatGPT ou de son API. Les utilisateurs gratuits, quant à eux, étaient limités à l'utilisation de GPT-3.5.

Désormais, GPT-4o est disponible gratuitement et pour tout le monde : une excellente nouvelle pour tester sans frais ce nouveau modèle. Ceux qui paient seront moins limités et priorisés : "Les utilisateurs Plus auront une limite de messages jusqu'à 5 fois supérieure à celle des utilisateurs gratuits, et les utilisateurs Team et Enterprise auront des limites encore plus élevées.", peut-on lire sur le site d'OpenAI.

Évolution de ChatGPT Voice

OpenAI a également annoncé des nouveautés pour ChatGPT Voice, la fonction vocale de ChatGPT. Plutôt que de converser à l'écrit avec ChatGPT, vous pouvez l'utiliser avec la voix, comme les autres assistants vocaux du marché. La nouvelle version sera plus rapide et plus naturelle, avec un temps de réponse moyen de 320 millisecondes, similaire à celui d'un humain dans une conversation. Dans les prochaines semaines, elle sera disponible en version alpha pour les abonnés à ChatGPT Plus.

OpenAI veut frapper fort en s'appuyant sur GPT-4o pour ChatGPT Voice, de façon à ce que le même réseau neuronal soit utilisé pour traiter, en temps réel, les entrées et sorties pour le texte, l'audio et la vision. De plus, il sera capable de détecter les émotions des humains.

"Par exemple, vous pourriez montrer à ChatGPT un match de sport en direct et lui demander de vous en expliquer les règles.", peut-on lire. OpenAI a effectué plusieurs démonstrations impressionnantes en direct et mis en ligne cette vidéo :

Say hello to GPT-4o, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time: https://t.co/MYHZB79UqN

Text and image input rolling out today in API and ChatGPT with voice and video in the coming weeks. pic.twitter.com/uuthKZyzYx

— OpenAI (@OpenAI) May 13, 2024

D'ailleurs, dans quelques heures, Google doit annoncer des nouveautés pour son IA générative, Gemini, alors forcément, l'entreprise américaine est attendue au tournant...

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GPT2-chatbot – Une IA mystère qui serait la prochaine évolution d’OpenAI (GPT-4.5 / GPT-5) ?

Vous avez entendu parler de GPT2-chatbot ?

C’est un modèle de langage un peu mystérieux, accessible uniquement sur le site https://chat.lmsys.org, qui semble avoir des super pouvoirs dignes de ChatGPT. Mais attention, suspense… Personne ne sait d’où il sort ! Ce chatbot anonyme fait tourner les têtes cette semaine après être devenu disponible sur un important site de référence pour les grands modèles de langage, LMSYS Org. Beaucoup considèrent qu’il a à peu près les mêmes capacités que GPT-4 d’OpenAI, ce qui le place dans une rare catégorie de modèles d’IA que seule une poignée de développeurs dans le monde a pu atteindre.

Quand on lui pose la question, ce petit malin de GPT2-chatbot clame haut et fort qu’il est basé sur l’archi de GPT-4 sauf que voilà, ça colle pas vraiment avec son blaze GPT-2…

Les communautés d’IA en ligne se sont emballées au sujet de l’anonyme gpt2-chatbot. Un utilisateur de X affirme que gpt2-chatbot a presque codé un clone parfait du jeu mobile Flappy Bird. Un autre utilisateur de X dit qu’il a résolu un problème de l’Olympiade internationale de mathématiques en un seul coup. Sur de longs fils Reddit, les utilisateurs spéculent sauvagement sur les origines de gpt2-chatbot et se disputent pour savoir s’il provient d’OpenAI, de Google ou d’Anthropic. Il n’y a aucune preuve de ces affirmations, mais les tweets de Sam Altman, PDG d’OpenAI, et d’autres cadres n’ont fait que jeter de l’huile sur le feu.

Mise à jour : De nouvelles informations importantes sont apparues concernant GPT2-chatbot :

  • Il est extrêmement probable que GPT2-chatbot fonctionne sur un serveur géré par OpenAI ou associé à OpenAI, comme le révèle la comparaison de messages d’erreur d’API spécifiques.
  • GPT2-chatbot a été rendu indisponible sur lmsys.org depuis le 30 avril vers 18h UTC. LMSYS a également mis à jour de façon opportune sa politique d’évaluation des modèles hier.
  • GPT2-chatbot utilise le même tokenizer « tiktoken » qu’OpenAI et présente les mêmes vulnérabilités et résistances aux injections de prompts malicieux que les modèles d’OpenAI.
  • Lorsqu’on lui demande les coordonnées de son fournisseur, il donne des informations de contact très détaillées d’OpenAI.

Tout cela va clairement dans le sens de l’hypothèse selon laquelle GPT2-chatbot serait bien un nouveau modèle GPT d’OpenAI, probablement une version préliminaire de GPT-4.5. Les performances sont en effet un cran au-dessus de GPT-4 tout en restant dans la même lignée.

L’accès à GPT2-chatbot est actuellement limité à 8 messages par jour et par utilisateur en mode « tchatche directe ». Pour continuer après, il faut passer en mode « Battle ». Les restrictions plus importantes que pour GPT-4 suggèrent que le modèle a un coût de calcul plus élevé.

Malheureusement, suite à un trafic trop important, LMSYS a dû temporairement désactiver l’accès à GPT2-chatbot. Affaire à suivre donc pour découvrir l’identité réelle de ce mystérieux modèle et les plans d’OpenAI à son sujet. Une version plus large sera-t-elle bientôt diffusée ? Réponse dans les prochaines semaines !

Prêt à tester les talents cachés de GPT2-chatbot ?

Si un jour, ça remarche, direction https://chat.lmsys.org, sélectionnez « gpt2-chatbot », cliquez sur « Chat » et c’est parti mon kiki !

Vous aurez le droit à 8 messages gratos en mode « tchatche directe » et après, faut passer en mode « Battle » pour continuer à jouer. Un petit conseil : pensez à repartir d’une page blanche en cliquant sur « New Round » à chaque fois que vous changez de sujet, sinon il risque de perdre le fil.

On verra bien dans quelques semaines quelle théorie sortira gagnante de ces discussions. Il y a très peu d’informations disponibles sur gpt2-chatbot pour l’instant mais il semble clair qu’un acteur majeur est derrière ce modèle IA.

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The Synology RS1224+ Rackstation – WHERE IS IT???

Where is the Synology RS1224+ Rackstation?

Synology is arguably one of the most popular brands in the entire private server market, and once you then factor in the large number of small and medium-sized businesses migrating away from cloud services and onto their own private NAS, who have been flocking in their droves towards Synology, you can understand why they are something of a big deal. Almost 25 years, the brand has been producing numerous desktop and rackmount NAS solutions (alongside a bunch of other side hustles like routers, storage media, business surveillance tools, and more), but in particular, their growth in the rackmount market in the last 5 to 7 years has been genuinely impressive. Which brings us to the subject of today’s article, where the hell is the Synology RS1224+ RackStation NAS? There has been an undeniable shift in the home lab and small business community away from desktop NAS devices and towards small-scale rackmount solutions, and Synology’s recent releases have certainly capitalized on this, thanks to improved smaller-scale four and eight-bay rackmount servers appearing in their product portfolio.

This combined with changes in the baseline hardware of several of their more recent releases have led to many users looking for a very specific kind of Synology rackmount! It has to be compact, it has to be powerful, it has to be scalable, and it has to be reasonably priced – currently, Synology only provides one solution that fits the bill in every regard, the 2020/2021 released RS1221+, which, despite its merits, is still a system that is almost 3 years old, leading many to question the benefits of investing in a system that is perhaps not as cutting edge as the rest of Synology’s portfolio currently stands. The answer, of course? A refresh (something Synology tends to do with their portfolio every two to three years), which would be the Synology RS1224+. Today we want to discuss everything we know, confirm this unit is coming, the expectations we have, and whether it’s worth waiting for it.

Is the Synology RS1224+ Rackstation NAS ACTUALLY Coming? YES

Is the Synology RS1224+ NAS coming? Well, yes! As early as autumn 2023, we saw numerous references to the RS1224+ model ID floating around in the backend of firmware updates and accidentally left in product compatibility pages on official Synology sites. Equally, there was even a Synology RS1223+ model ID appearing in summer 2023, perhaps indicating that this system was designed to arrive earlier than it has. In more recent weeks, users have taken to digging into the latest Synology DSM firmware updates and finding further references towards the existence of a Synology RS1221 (along with a couple of powerhouse expandable rack mounts, and a series of expansion boxes).

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/17nj00y/new_synology_nas_and_expansion_units/

None of this is unusual, and for those willing to put in the extra time, you can often find model IDs of upcoming devices if you know where to look. The crucial detail is that clearly a half-depth eight-bay rack mount is indeed on the way from Synology and given its formative mentions in summer 2023, and continued references in 2024, it would indicate that this is a system that Synology has already well featured on their roadmap and factored into their product portfolio.

If you want to play devil’s advocate, one might argue that this product is only a placeholder, a spreadsheet template item, or a hypothetical product that Synology just wants to enter in order to maintain its position in their database. Although that’s not impossible, realistically, there are simply too many references available at this point to deny that Synology is clearly rolling out a product of this hardware and model configuration. Equally, off-the-record discussions with Synology representatives further bolster this point. Ultimately, I think it’s undeniable that Synology is going to continue this product series, but that leads us to the next question: why are users so enamored with the release of the RS1224+?

Why Are Users Waiting for the Synology RS1224+ Rackmount NAS?

As I mentioned earlier, there has been a trend shift away from desktop devices for certain kinds of users. Home enthusiasts often find it considerably more convenient to purchase a small or even medium-sized rack cabinet to be kept somewhere on their property, which can be considerably more efficient for applying numerous rackmount servers than the alternative of utilizing desktop space filled with tower chassis devices. Equally, most businesses do not want to run their main backup or operation server in the same offices they work in and either wish to utilize a separate storage area on the premises or even a small area of physical storage off-site for network and remote personal cloud storage. Much like home lab users who do this for fun, business users can often see tremendous benefits in more modular and compact multi-rackmount devices compared with that of desktop.

However, this reasoning was also largely born out of the fact that right now devices and their physical scale have changed dramatically over the last few years. If you go back even as little as a decade ago, a rackmount device was considerably bigger in depth, much less power-efficient, considerably noisier, and was just generally a much more enterprise and industrial proposition. Thanks to growing efficiencies in server components, smaller but effective cooling systems being developed, and larger storage media allowing systems to occupy fewer storage bays for higher capacity, rackmount devices no longer need to be the big hulking metal monsters they once were, and these days you can pick up four and eight-bay rackmount servers quite easily and affordably. All of this has added up to why users would not only be positively in favor of the release of a new compact, but powerful rackmount NAS system, and why a system like the RS1224+ would be equally popular.

Synology has released several half-depth 30 cm rackmounts (and 40 cm dual power supply rackmounts) in the last few years, a great example being the Synology RS422+, a small, affordable rackmount that provides a decent base level of hardware but does lack the expandability of other devices in their portfolio. Equally, at the start of 2023, Synology rolled out several new medium and large business rackmount devices that provided tremendous power and scalability – but these systems were considerably larger, much more power-hungry, and several times more expensive than the older RS1221+. The perfect middle ground here is the Synology RS1224+, hence why users are sitting quite comfortably on the fence about every other device until they know whether this system is truly arriving and, when it does, what exactly its hardware caliber will be. Let’s discuss what we predict and what we comfortably know about the Synology RS1224+ hardware.

What Are the Estimated Hardware Specifications of the Synology RS1224+ NAS?

As I mentioned earlier, the Synology RS1224+ would not be a completely new and unique product series by the brand but would be a refresh of the existing compact eight-drive rackmount series that the brand has been working on now for more than 5 years. Alongside maintaining a clearly defined portfolio across the whole range of desktop and rackmount devices that they provide, Synology also takes special care to make sure there is not too much overlap when it comes to all of their solutions. Typically when you look at the Synology portfolio, you find that solutions tend to be between $50 and $100 difference in price, and each solution takes that extra bit of investment and puts it into internal performance, total storage, or network connectivity. That also means that products in the Synology portfolio have a tendency to use a small group of CPU and memory combinations and then spread them across a variety of different storage scale devices. This all adds up to us being fairly confident in predicting the internal hardware that the RS1224+ arrives with.

The previous generation arrived with an AMD V1500B quad-core x86 CPU, but Synology has slowly started refreshing all devices with this CPU from the 2019 and 2020 generation towards the new AMD embedded Ryzen V1780B processor. Alongside a higher base clock speed, this is also a more capable CPU, though it does still arrive in the same V1000 product family from AMD. The Synology RS1224+ will definitely arrive with this CPU, as the company has already started rolling it out in their Plus series rackmount, as well as the system definitely arriving with ECC memory. ECC memory has been provided with every single Plus series rackmount that Synology has rolled out in the last 5 years and the RS1224+ will be no exception to this. However, it is still yet to be seen whether the system will arrive with 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB, as Synology has been scaling up the base level of default memory on their systems in the most recent generation refreshes. The rest of the system architecture is fairly easy to predict, with the exception of the network connectivity (more on that in a moment), but below is the expected specifications of the Synology RS1224+ RackStation:

Specification Detail
Model Synology RS1224+ NAS
Price $(TBC)*
Form Factor Half-depth / 2U RackStation
CPU AMD Ryzen Embedded V1780B*
CPU Details 4-Core/8-Thread, 3.35GHz
Memory 8-32GB DDR4 UDIMM ECC
Storage Bays 8x SATA 3.5″/2.5″ (Add 4x More drives with the RX Expansion)
Networking 1x 10GbE Copper (10GBASE-T)*
Expansion Slots 1x PCIe Gen 3×8
LAN Ports 2x / 4x RJ45 1GbE LAN*
Expansion Port 1x eSATA
USB Ports 2x USB 3.2 GEN 1 (5Gb/s)
Dimensions 88 mm x 482 mm x 306.6 mm
Dimensions (RP Version) 88 mm x 482 mm x 407.5 mm
Warranty 3-Year Warranty (5yr Opt)
Additional Notes *massively TBC!!!

There is, however, one area of ambiguity that is still present in the specifications of the Synology RS1224+, the default network connectivity! The system will definitely arrive with at least a couple of 1GbE network ports and will definitely provide a PCIe 3 x8 slot in order to upgrade network connectivity and add combo cards later in the system’s life if needed.

However, what about 10GbE? At the tail end of 2023, Synology saw the release of the Synology RS2423+, a similarly hardware-designed Plus series RackStation solution, that was fully expected to arrive with gigabit networking only. However, when it arrived, Synology provided a 10GBase-T networking port by default (not via a PCIe upgrade, but as standard). Now, this is a 12x HDD system, so there is more than enough media to fully saturate a 10GbE network connection. However, this did not stop Synology in the previous four generations of that RackStation product series from only providing 1GbE by default, so why the change now?

Synology has faced growing criticism from prosumers and small business users for their rather restricted default network connections, limiting the majority of solutions to either 1GbE in their standard class and 10GbE in the power user and enterprise models. Many users have raised questions about Synology perhaps utilizing 2.5 gigabit Ethernet network connections, as used by a majority of their competitors. Others would state that 2.5GbE is something of a technological fad, and 10GbE is the only natural path to go down, so that does bring into question allocating lanes internally to this network bandwidth. The reason I bring the whole thing up is simply that if Synology changed its position on 10GbE on the 12-bay RackStation, it is totally believable to think that they would do so on the Synology RS1224+. Plus, as this is still an eight-bay system and that too could fully saturate a 10GbE even with hard drives, not just SSD. This is still a lingering question on this system and one that we probably won’t know the answer to until launch, but nevertheless, I think there is enough evidence here for us to wonder if Synology will do the right thing and roll this system out the gate with 10G.

When Do I Think the Synology RS1224+ Rackstation Will Be Released?

Given that the model ID of the RS1224+ and RS1224rp+ both arrive with the ’24’ suffix, that typically means that Synology will roll this system out in the first 6 months of 2024. That is still quite a wide and broad remit for a release date, but typically Synology tends to roll out business and enterprise-grade solutions in the first quarter of the year (based on previous experience and other releases we have observed). Nevertheless, at the time of writing in February 2024, we are making our way into the halfway point of the first quarter of 2024, so Synology would be cutting it quite fine, and we have yet to even see provisional leaks of this system via the usual supply chain and compatibility listings to the degree that we normally would prior to a launch. With regards to pricing, that is one area where Synology tends to be thankfully incredibly consistent, and you can fully expect the RS1224+ to match the $999 to $1199 price tag of its predecessor. Stay tuned to NAS Compares as we keep an eye out for this system and discuss whether it deserves your data.

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