Synology to enforce use of validated disks in its NAS. And guess what? Only its own disks exceed 4TB

Taiwanese NAS-spinner has written custom firmware for Toshiba tin

Taiwanese network attached storage vendor Synology has introduced its first-ever list of validated disks and won’t allow other devices into its enterprise-class NAS devices. And on a colossal co-incidence, half of the disks allowed into its devices – and the only ones larger than 4TB – are Synology’s very own HAT 5300 disks that it launched last week.…

from The Register