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Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices (arstechnica.com)

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Synology's telegraphed moves toward a contained ecosystem and seemingly vertical integration are certain to rankle some of its biggest fans, who likely enjoy doing their own system building, shopping, and assembly for the perfect amount of storage. "Pro-sumers," homelab enthusiasts, and those with just a lot of stuff to store at home, or in a small business, previously had a good reason to buy one Synology device every so many years, then stick into them whatever drives they happened to have or acquired at their desired prices. Synology's stated needs for efficient support of drive arrays may be more defensible at the enterprise level, but as it gets closer to the home level, it suggests a different kind of optimization.

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[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Isn’t synology basically a Linux system with lots of slots for storage? Can’t you just… buy a pi?

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca -1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Are we overreacting? Hasn't Synology always had a list of "certified" drives for their NAS', which end up being the same HDDs we would tend to use anyway?

I can understand that they don't want people using any garbage storage drives, which could increase failure and make Synology NAS' look unreliable.

Unless something has changed, this is how they've always done it, just like how every laptop manufacturer will say which RAM and storage works best (for reliability and performance) on their machines.

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