Synology Starts Locking Drives for New NASes

What an sadly inevitable and short-sighted move.

Never buy anything where there is vendor lock-in. You will inevitably find yourself contributing to a CEO's huge bonus more than you should be.

"Synology launched a trio of enterprise hard drives at 8TB, 12TB, and 16TB capacities along with a trio of “enterprise” NAS units. As part of the dual announcement, Synology is locking its new NAS units from using large hard drives from other vendors, instead only allowing its own hard drives to work in the units. Let us get into what is happening."

Hmm reminds me of SFP and switches ...