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"We've rigorously tested up to 8 drives" - bullshit. An 8-bay synology will fail a RAID rebuild every single time. If you're lucky, it'll work after the 3rd r
by tw04 7y ago
"We've rigorously tested up to 8 drives" - bullshit. An 8-bay synology will fail a RAID rebuild every single time. If you're lucky, it'll work after the 3rd retry - which will be about 2 weeks later because of how slow it is.
This is a money grab, plain and simple. Had they substituted SMR drives at a lower price they might have a leg to stand on. But as others have mentioned, they didn't - they lied until they got caught and are now pretending like they were up-front. Talk about making a bad situation worse. The headline should've been "We're sorry, here's what we're doing to fix it" - instead it's "there's nothing wrong, it's YOUR fault you caught me cheating".
- sixothree 7y agoI think the worst part of this fiasco is that the drives may appear to operate normally until the moment when the raid is most vulnerable.
- rodgerd 7y agoI wonder if this explains why a a couple of brand new Red drives have brought down an 8-drive ZFS array for me. Oh, well. i'll return them and keep returning them until they work right.
- imtringued 7y agoCompanies pretending that nothing is wrong are the worst.