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Re:Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after s... by CryptoBanker on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @10:28AM (#45516588)
Open source alternatives such as OpenMediaVault are able to support virtually any hardware. That's no excuse for a company like Synology
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Re:Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after s... by jlarocco on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @10:38AM (#45516684)
It helps that they can tell people to debug the problem themselves.
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Re:Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after s... by CryptoBanker on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @12:30PM (#45517971)
I've been using them for 4 years across enterprise level HDDs, personal HDDs, portable HDDs, never seen any issues or differences in experience other than speed.
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Re:Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after s... by gertop on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @12:54PM (#45518194)
From every success story like yours, how many people have tried it but given up and returned to a commercial solution because of a bug in OMV and absence of support except for a community forum filled with rabid (and usually clueless) fanboys?

I know I'm one of those people.

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Re:Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after s... by CamperBob2 on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @01:24PM (#45518486)
So can Synology. "I'm sorry, sir, but your XYZ drive doesn't appear on our list of recommended/supported drives. I'll need to refer you to XYZ Corp for this issue. Is there anything else I can help you with today?"

That's all they ever needed to say. Instead, they said, "Fuck you, pay me."

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