"If you were considering the purchase of a Synology NAS but were leery of the unreasonably high cost of populating it with special Synology-branded hard disk drives, you can breathe a little easier today. In a press release dated October 8, Synology noted that with the release of its latest Disk Station Manager (DSM) update, some of its 2025 model-year products-specifically, the Plus, Value, and J-series DiskStation NAS devices-would "support the installation and storage pool creation of non-validated third-party drives.""
"Prior to today, the network-attached storage vendor had shown no signs of swerving from the decision, painting it as a pro-consumer move intended to enhance reliability. "Extensive internal testing has shown that drives that follow a rigorous validation process when paired with Synology systems are at less risk of drive failure and ongoing compatibility issues," Synology previously claimed in an email to Ars."
Synology issued a DSM update enabling some 2025 model-year Plus, Value, and J-series DiskStation NAS units to accept non-validated third-party drives and create storage pools with them. The change reverses an earlier expansion of a verified-drive policy that had required Synology-branded or validated drives on more units. Synology previously asserted that rigorous internal validation and customized firmware reduced drive-failure risk and compatibility problems when paired with Synology systems. Synology-branded drives were introduced in 2021 and often carried substantial price increases compared with commodity hard-disk hardware.
Read at Ars Technica
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