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Comment Re:Drive firmware (Score 2) 29

There's a ton of value in knowing that the monthly drive health report that it produces showing bad sectors and I/O retries is accurate. In fact that's most of the value. They used to be able to guarantee that with a list of compatible drives but now mfgr's have made it impossible for them to even maintain that list by cutting corners on firmware such that identical SKU's run different fw.

Comment Re:Drive firmware (Score 3, Insightful) 29

No a big selling point for Synology is the testing suite that checks drive health and they just couldn't rely on manufacturers to implement their own SMART firmware to spec so those tests could be believed. Some mfgr's even started releasing different firmware on the same SKU so one drive would test properly whereas another wouldn't.

Firmware verification is why Synology's branded drives cost so much more. There's big liability there for them.

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