The about-face
As of the October 8 launch of DSM 7.3, the enter has been utilized. Here is the complete part from the company’s DSM 7.3 announcement:
As part of its mission assertion, Synology is dedicated to delivering dependable, high-performance storage methods. This dedication has led to a standardized strategy 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. Each Synology storage drives and parts validated via the third-party program bear uniform testing processes to make sure they can present the best ranges of reliability with DSM.
Synology is presently collaborating carefully with third-party drive producers to speed up the testing and verification of extra storage drives, and can announce extra updates as quickly as attainable. Within the meantime, 25 mannequin 12 months DiskStation Plus, Worth, and J sequence operating DSM 7.3 will help the set up and storage pool creation of non-validated third-party drives. This offers customers larger flexibility whereas Synology continues to broaden 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, Worth, and J-series NAS gadgets. (Nicely, largely eliminated—the press launch signifies that pool and cache creation on M.2 disks “nonetheless 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 variation solely impacts the ’25 sequence fashions: DS725+, DS225+, DS425+, DS925+, DS1525+, DS1825+. Fashions within the xs+ line, just like the DS3622xs+, are thought of a enterprise/enterprise mannequin and can stay below the present HCL coverage for our enterprise traces,” Synology defined.
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