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Synology Reverses Course on Some Drive Restrictions
Wednesday October 8, 2025. 07:24 PM , from Slashdot
![]() The company had expanded its verified drive policy to the entire Plus line a few months earlier. Synology-branded drives carried substantial price premiums over commodity hardware. The HAT5310 enterprise SATA drive costs $299 for 8TB compared to $220 for an identically sized Seagate Exos disk. Users who installed non-verified drives in affected models faced reduced functionality and persistent warning messages in the DSM interface. Synology said today it is collaborating with third-party drive manufacturers to accelerate testing and verification of additional storage drives. Pool and cache creation on M.2 disks still requires drives from the hardware compatibility list. Synology did not clarify whether the policy change applies to previous-generation products. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/08/1723232/synology-reverses-course-on-some-drive-restrict...
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