For your specific model, check the 'Install Drives' section of the Product Manual. But the storage industry does love to pick fights – see our sibling site Blocks and Files’ coverage of Pure Storage and NetApp feuding for an example of the fun to be had in the storage blogosphere – so Synology could be setting itself up for a stoush with this decision to drive buyers to its own drives. In order to identify the corresponding drives of a Synology NAS device with two or more bays, the drives in the photos below are numbered from left to right or top to bottom for reference. If the corp really can deliver the performance improvements it claims its firmware enables, being locked into Synology drives may be a sound decision. However, it is unusual for a manufacturer like Synology to specify hard disk drives bearing its own branding and custom firmware as the only way to operate above a certain capacity.Īs a junior vendor, Synology is therefore asking rather a lot of potential buyers. Open files from Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, or your own server, sync. However a storage-centric friend of The Register tells us that as some solid-state and spinning disks do things slightly differently, those lists of preferred or certified drives can be very specific. Search works for all files, everything is done from one search box. For hard drives, this seems a bit over the top when Exos, Red Pros, Golds, Ultrastars. They have added an 'incompatibility' feature to their Compatibility list. Hardware compatibility lists are routine in the enterprise and data center world, because array vendors find it tiresome to troubleshoot issues that may have been caused by the vast number of hard disks on the market. Aug 2021 1 Synology has gone and done it.
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