Some companies make it too easy to choose their competitors.
Well they’ve been a shit company for awhile. This just seals it for me. Garbage ass product anyways.
I really love my Synology NAS (DS220+). I don’t anticipate needing to replace it anytime soon, but given how well it’s treated me, I would almost certainly replace it with a 2024 model instead of a newer one if I had to, given this new limitation.
This decision from them seems short-sighted, I hope they reverse it.
Well, at least they have put 2 links on their product page, to the Compatible Drives page, suggesting that other drives might not work.
For me, that only puts them in the “never buy” list and not in the “a crusade is coming” list.
So glad I’m just using my PC
Congratulations on the spineless, disgusting piece of shit who imposed this decision. I will look forward to burn my NAS and let them know my opinion, for fucking sure.
Okay I guess I’ll start scouring the internets for a quiet, low energy build
well after hearing this. when I buy a NAS i’ll be going with any brand except synology
Same! I was actually just looking at them. Glad I saw this first
“third-party HDDs”
In my day we just called these… HDDs. Anytime something so ubiquitous has to be labeled third-party, you know who the bad guy is instantly.
Third party ram, third party motherboard, third party cmos battery…
The end result of sniffing your own farts too much.
Haha wow what an absolutely HORRIBLE descision, wtf?! So glad I went with QNAP!!
So, it doesn’t affect existing models, just the new ranges of NAS that will be released soon. And if you own an old one you can use it to format non supported drives and migrate to the newer models.
Pretty shit, but at least it’s not going to majorly affect existing set ups.
I wonder if Synology will realise how bad of a move this is and one day roll it back. This will kill their consumer level market share, do they have enough of an enterprise market for this to make up the difference?
This is unfortunate. My first NAS was an ASUS and it sucked balls to the point I made the switch to Synology and was able to get everything I needed working. Storage, external view access, connection to my apps. IDK what ima do when I need to move NAS solutions.
my first NAS was a synology and it sucked so hard I moved to QNAP, which sucked less but still was bad, so I learned to just make and use my own same mini server.
I still remember their support to open the SSH port to the public internet for their support team to look at it. fucking clowns.
buying brand name is almoat always a bad idea when it comes to computers.
take advantage of their modularity, people.
I’ve only seen the “non supported drive installed” notification once and in my experience it affected absolutely nothing about the device.
In my experience it blocks out some other notifications that might be interesting.
Also the Synology branded SSDs are like 3x the price of a WD alt.
Crazy how they’re just going to make such a nice brand go to shit.
Per the article, I believe this is a change to new 2025 devices. Is yours from 2025?
They’re all updated to the latest DSM, maybe any change is just on new models shipping.
We use a LOT of their small 2 bay units at customer sites, and the latest we’ve installed were using Synology brand drives, so not sure about those
According to this article, that linked a German press release from Synology as their source, it will impact 2025 “+” models.
Synology is just jumping on the “turn the screws” bandwagon. Looks like I’ll be finding another alternative with my next upgrade or recommendation, that or DIY. I don’t respond well to this kind of bullshit.
In my scenario- ~25 clients with onsite (and replicated) backups, a new Truenas machine every time isn’t a feasable thing, so fingers crossed they don’t start increasing the markup on their “branded” drives. Ugh.
When they say “the 2024 Synology models and older are not affected by this change”, it makes me think it’s either very recent or still ongoing, as you said.
