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There are plenty of reasons why Synology would consider a move like this, for good and for bad. So in the interest of balance, let’s start positive. What are the good reasons why Synology would endeavour to only support the use of their own storage media in their systems? To a much smaller group, it allows them to tailor performance and system deployment expectations a great deal more realistically and could result in improved overall performance for all users, as it allows the development of future solutions to be significantly more targeted. If Synology solutions only support Synology drives
Synology 2025 NAS Hard Drive and SSD Lock In Confirmed - Bye, Bye Seagate and WD - NAS Compares… REPLY ON YOUTUBE I try to avoid Seagate hard drives and HP computers because of their bad quality. I was surprised that inside my new Asus laptop there was a Seagate hard drive. So now I use WD external drive instead of that Seagate drive. Seagate I use only when I need some temporary storage space. …
… REPLY ON YOUTUBE Overall great video, I came in to comment to say those Seagate 5Tb external drives are terrible for NAS. I have 2 of 2 failed exactly the same black Seagate and LaCie with identical HDD inside . …
… Aside from a Seagate NAS HDD crapping out after a year, I’ve been very happy with my choice. I’m mixing Seagate Exos Mach2 and WD Purple Pro in my NAS. …
… Seagate Exos 16TB Enterprise HDD X16 SATA 6Gb/s 512e/4Kn 7200 RPM 256MB Cache 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive ST16000NM001G bought in November, 2024 for $187.88 before tax. That was even a great deal at the time. I had gotten a 14TB Seagate Exos drive about 2 years earlier for around $195 on sale. …