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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.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596179

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That’s a strange lie. Where did it originate?

Synology supports a wide range of drives, including in mixed co figurations - size- and brand-wise.

Where 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=produ...

That'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=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-...

I have Western Digital drives in mine… it’s been solid and was very easy to set up.

Is there a specific Synology NAS model with this restriction?

I happen to have Western Digital drives in my Synology DS920+.

12-bay and rack units? Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596179

The 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.

That's just someone saying that - not an actual source. Anyone can claim anything on the internet.

Do you have a reference for that? I setup a Synology very recently with non-Toshiba drives.

Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596179

THIS is a reference, not that crappy link you had.

https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility?search_by=categ...

That's not a reference. Someone else just said that with no further backing behind it.

I 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.

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