Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after sales allegedly plummet

Re:Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after s... by crote on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @10:50AM (#45516834)

I reckon the issue is more in replacement than transient data loss: what are you going to do when you can't find a replacement controller card, or it only available at ludicrous prices?

With a proprietary on-disk format you can't exactly hook them up to any random controller and expect it to work: either you find a new one from the same controller family, or your data is gone.

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Re:Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after s... by ryandrake on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @11:38AM (#45517360)

Replacing your RAID controller is already major maintenance, so there's going to be downtime. I wouldn't be opposed to just wiping the drives and restoring from the latest backup. I routinely do this anyway, just to have assurance that my backups are working.

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Re:Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after s... by jacquesm on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @12:11PM (#45517750)

And a risk! I've had this on a premium machine put together specifically for that purpose and when the raid controller died something got upset to the point that even with a new raid controller we could not recover the array. No big deal, it was one of several backups, but still, I did not expect that to happen.

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