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What do you think about Synology only allowing their rebranded Toshiba drives to work in their NAS? That's a deal breaker for me. EDIT: Source: https://news.yc
by timbit42 5y ago
What do you think about Synology only allowing their rebranded Toshiba drives to work in their NAS? That's a deal breaker for me.
EDIT: Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596179
- kencausey 5y agoWhere did you get that idea? Below are links to Synology acknowledged compatible drives with multiple brands and even that doesn't imply that only these will work: https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility?search_by=products&model=DS918%2B&category=hdds_no_ssd_trim&p=1&change_log_p=1 https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility?search_by=produ... https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility?search_by=products&model=DS918%2B&category=m2_ssd_internal&p=1&change_log_p=1 https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility?search_by=produ...
- johngalt 5y agoThat's a Synology released four years ago. Contrast with a model released in February this year. Not a single drive non-Synology drive on the HCL larger than 4TB: https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility?search_by=products&model=RS2421RP%2B&category=hdds_no_ssd_trim&p=1&change_log_p=1 https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility?search_by=produ... It's not a hard requirement to use Synology drives, but on the newer/higher-end models the options to not use Synology drives are very limited. For example the FS2500 only has four models of SSD on the HCL and two are Synology. IMHO, the price premium for the Synology branded drives is reasonable. Pay for the validated drives. Maintaining a broad HCL is no small task. https://blog.synology.com/in-pursuit-of-reliability-hat5300-enterprise-hard-drives https://blog.synology.com/in-pursuit-of-reliability-hat5300-...
- sigjuice 5y agoIs there a specific Synology NAS model with this restriction? I happen to have Western Digital drives in my Synology DS920+.
- timbit42 5y ago12-bay and rack units? Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596179
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- halfdan 5y agoThat's just someone saying that - not an actual source. Anyone can claim anything on the internet.
- erikprotagonist 5y agoThe last Synology box I configured, a RS4021xs+, has currently a "System health" status of "Danger: The system is now in a dangerous status". In Storage manager every drive is listed as "Unverified" and with a red triangle. (Seagate ST18000NM disks, so quite common.) I configured it about a year ago. Before I updated to what was then a beta version of DSM it refused to install all together, which was quite frustrating. The list of supported drives according to Synology is depressingly short for this model - the only non-Synology or Toshiba drive is a single Western Digital.
- Arcuru 5y agoDo you have a reference for that? I setup a Synology very recently with non-Toshiba drives.
- timbit42 5y agoReference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596179
- gjsman-1000 5y agoThat's not a reference. Someone else just said that with no further backing behind it.
- MR4D 5y agoTHIS is a reference, not that crappy link you had. https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility?search_by=category&category=hdds_no_ssd_trim&p=1&change_log_p=1 https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility?search_by=categ...
- ashton314 5y agoI have Western Digital drives in mine… it’s been solid and was very easy to set up.
- andrei_says_ 5y agoThat’s a strange lie. Where did it originate? Synology supports a wide range of drives, including in mixed co figurations - size- and brand-wise.
- windowsrookie 5y agoI have schucked Western Digital Element drives in my Synology NAS with no issues. Hundreds (maybe thousands?) of people on Reddit are doing this with no issues.