Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome

Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fixed

  Worked-around, you mean. And that hack seems temporary.

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• remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yup, been using that from the start, since none of the 20TB drives were “verified” when I bought them.

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  • LiPoly@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    A non-issue??? That is absolutely an issue, because 90% of consumers won’t know about this fix. It’s outrageous that a consumer facing brand introduces such arbitrary vendor lock-ins, especially without reason. It’s just like HP with their ink lock. An absolute dick move and should not be supported in the slightest.

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yep. It’s not like unverified drives won’t work, they’ll just show an orange warning symbol and disable some minor features.

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    • NameTaken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not to say I’m not annoyed and they definitely should not be doing this except for their enterprise line. Would I buy another Synology again, no definitely not.

      However most “consumers” buying a NAS are already pretty tech savvy. When this issue happened to me I googled it and found and applied the script in 15 or so minutes. Run the script essentially once a year or so when major updates come along. Hasn’t been a huge issue. The issue will be if /when they block this script or other fixes.

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      • remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Run the script essentially once a year or so when major updates come along.

        I’ve set it up in the task sheduler as a “on boot-up” task. Have never bothered with it through multiple updates.

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