Synology seems to further favor their “own” (re-labeled, Toshiba- and Seagate-produced) drives instead of the numerous other once which still appear in the official HCL like we knew it over the years, starting with the 25-Plus-models.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Synology-restricts-choice-of-hard-disks-for-new-Plus-NAS-10356960.html
Yeah, moves like this have convinced me that when I get another NAS box, it won’t be from them. It’ll probably built custom instead. After some quick searching, OpenMediaVault and TrueNAS seems like top runners right now. Hopefully it’ll be a while before I have to really consider it, though.
Unraid is pretty sweet as well!