Synology to enforce use of validated disks in enterprise NAS boxes. And guess what? Only its own disks exceed 4TB
NAS spinner's drives are Toshiba tin with custom firmware Share Copy Synology has introduced its first-ever list of validated disks and won’t allow other devices into its enterprise-class NAS devices. And in a colossal coincidence, 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. Seeing as privately held Synology is thought to have annual revenue of around US$350m, rather less than the kind of cash required to get into the hard disk business, The Register inquired if it had real...
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