inkvisible 🍁Apr 17, 2025

It's shameful how #Synology decided to take HP's path (and among other printers companies).

Somehow, their "proprietary hard drives" are "more trustworthy", or that is more "secure" or whatever...

In the excellent article, @kevinpurdy also wrote that "Synology does not manufacture its own hard drives but instead certifies and rebrands drives from Toshiba and Seagate (...)"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/synology-could-bring-certified-drive-requirements-to-more-nas-devices/

I think that would be an interesting topic for @pluralistic

Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices

German press release suggests expansion of the company’s “integrated ecosystem.”…

Ars Technica
Show threadRetroVideoGamesApr 17, 2025

@inkvisible @kevinpurdy @pluralistic another formerly good corporation commits suicide by enshitfication.

RIP Synology. The model I have already has some limitations on non-branded SSDs and I was mad when I found out about that.

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@retrovg @inkvisible @kevinpurdy @pluralistic I'd like to know any details around that since I'm literally 2 hours away from picking up a 2-bay DS723+ and planning to populate it with drives I'm "shucking" from Seagate backup externals.
Apr 17, 2025 at 9:15pmWeb
Show threadRetroVideoGamesApr 17, 2025
@soviut @inkvisible @kevinpurdy @pluralistic same case as my device, it has two NVMe ports which it can only use to create another set of volumes if they are Synology-branded. With other brands, they can only be used as a cache for the volumes on HDDs.
Show threadIanApr 17, 2025

@retrovg @inkvisible @kevinpurdy @pluralistic Synology By "synology branded" I'm guessing you mean "synology approved"?

I'm just worried these drives I'm pulling from the backup enclosers aren't going to work for some reason.

Show threadRetroVideoGamesApr 17, 2025

@soviut @inkvisible @kevinpurdy @pluralistic all HDDs will work so that's not a problem.

The NVMes (which are full optional) only allow storing data on their own branded sticks, or caching on any brand.

Show threadIanApr 17, 2025
@retrovg @inkvisible @kevinpurdy @pluralistic Okay, thanks for the clarification. I didn't even know Synology had their own NVMe storage.