Synology walks again drive restrictions on upcoming NAS fashions

The about-face

As of the October 8 launch of DSM 7.3, the enter has been utilized. Here’s the total part from the company’s DSM 7.3 announcement:

As part of its mission assertion, Synology is dedicated to delivering dependable, high-performance storage techniques. This dedication has led to a standardized technique of rigorous testing and validation for each {hardware} and software program parts, and has been an integral a part of Synology’s improvement strategy for a few years. Both Synology storage drives and parts validated by way of the third-party program bear uniform testing processes to make sure they’re able to present the very best ranges of reliability with DSM.

Synology is presently collaborating intently with third-party drive producers to speed up the testing and verification of further storage drives, and can announce extra updates as quickly as potential. In the meantime, 25 mannequin yr DiskStation Plus, Value, and J sequence operating DSM 7.3 will assist the set up and storage pool creation of non-validated third-party drives. This supplies customers better flexibility whereas Synology continues to develop the lineup of formally verified drives that meet long-term reliability requirements.

The upshot is that the validated drive necessities are being faraway from 2025 model-year Plus, Value, and J-series NAS units. (Well, principally eliminated—the press launch signifies that pool and cache creation on M.2 disks “still requires drives on the HCL [hardware compatibility list].”)

We requested Synology whether or not the necessities can even be lifted from previous-generation Synology merchandise—and the reply to that query seems to be a “no.”

“This change only affects the ’25 series models: DS725+, DS225+, DS425+, DS925+, DS1525+, DS1825+. Models in the xs+ line, like the DS3622xs+, are considered a business/enterprise model and will remain under the current HCL policy for our business lines,” Synology defined.

Updated with feedback from Synology.