Hardware

To be clear, Synology branded drives are also third-party, but it's just third party they make money on. They don't actually make drives and there's no real technically valid reason behind this move.

Y'know, I was seriously contemplating a Synology for my first NAS this year.

Was.

Some companies make it too easy to choose their competitors.

Well they've been a shit company for awhile. This just seals it for me. Garbage ass product anyways.

I really love my Synology NAS (DS220+). I don't anticipate needing to replace it anytime soon, but given how well it's treated me, I would almost certainly replace it with a 2024 model instead of a newer one if I had to, given this new limitation.

This decision from them seems short-sighted, I hope they reverse it.

Well, at least they have put 2 links on their product page, to the Compatible Drives page, suggesting that other drives might not work.

For me, that only puts them in the "never buy" list and not in the "a crusade is coming" list.

I am very happy with my Terramaster running Truenas Scale.

So glad I'm just using my PC

Congratulations on the spineless, disgusting piece of shit who imposed this decision. I will look forward to burn my NAS and let them know my opinion, for fucking sure.

Okay I guess I'll start scouring the internets for a quiet, low energy build

well after hearing this. when I buy a NAS i'll be going with any brand except synology

"third-party HDDs"

In my day we just called these... HDDs. Anytime something so ubiquitous has to be labeled third-party, you know who the bad guy is instantly.

The end result of sniffing your own farts too much.

Haha wow what an absolutely HORRIBLE descision, wtf?! So glad I went with QNAP!!

So, it doesn't affect existing models, just the new ranges of NAS that will be released soon. And if you own an old one you can use it to format non supported drives and migrate to the newer models.

Pretty shit, but at least it's not going to majorly affect existing set ups.

I wonder if Synology will realise how bad of a move this is and one day roll it back. This will kill their consumer level market share, do they have enough of an enterprise market for this to make up the difference?

This is unfortunate. My first NAS was an ASUS and it sucked balls to the point I made the switch to Synology and was able to get everything I needed working. Storage, external view access, connection to my apps. IDK what ima do when I need to move NAS solutions.