I recently bought a new 4TB disk to replace a failing one in my NAS. Until I did this I had not realised that Synology had a compatibility list. My previous drive (and the one good one remaining) was a Wd Red Plus WD40EFRX. Even on the WD site only a 1TB version of this is available, the 4TB version has model number WD40EFZX. The firmware version is exactly the same. Synology support have been very unhelpful just constantly saying that I must use something on the compatibility list, but AFAICS all the disks listed are old models. In other words, it is not possible to purchase a disk listed as compatible.
Am I likely to have a problem using the newer disk? The speed is the same, but the cache is larger. I don’t know enough about disk technology to be sure.
I would appreciate any advice especially from anyone using supposedly incompatible disks.
Am I likely to have a problem using the newer disk? The speed is the same, but the cache is larger. I don’t know enough about disk technology to be sure.
I would appreciate any advice especially from anyone using supposedly incompatible disks.