cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/36614306
Are your files going to be safer with Synology hard drives?
As usual, redditors can’t read the thing they linked to.
While you can still use non-supported drives for storage, Hardwareluxx [machine translated] reports that you’ll lose several critical functions, including estimated hard drive health reports, volume-wide deduplication, lifespan analyses, and automatic firmware updates.
So the headline is false, you just don’t get access to a bunch of functionality that relies on drives predictably reporting to the host and being specific types.
Oh, and it only applies to the “plus” line.
I don’t even like synology and this is pretty indefensible writing…
Tbh it probably reflects coming shake up in storage where hybrid devices and race to the bottom thinking take over.
Health reports are already on the derives you should use for a nas. It’s called S.M.A.R.T data and its an industry standard. They’re just going to prevent you from reading that data unless the HDD has some finger print from them.
