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Synology DSM 7.2 and 2025 Plus NAS's - Enquiries - 11-14-2025
With the inconsistent drive policy from Synology, I'm torn between buying a Synology Plus Series NAS and building my own from scratch. I already purchased 4 14TB HGST WD Ultrastar DC HC530 14TB SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-Inch Data Center HDD. Are they going to work ok in a 2025 Plus series NAS?
Thank you in advance for any assistance rendered,
Tom
RE: Synology DSM 7.2 and 2025 Plus NAS's - ed - 11-14-2025
Thanks for getting in touch. The good news is that your HGST Ultrastar DC HC530 drives are standard SATA enterprise disks and they will work in the 2025 Synology Plus series. Synology’s new drive policy is stricter on paper, but the 2025 DS Plus models allow third party SATA HDDs for new installations as well as migrations. You will get an “unverified” warning during setup, but the system will let you create a storage pool and operate normally.
The only drives you need to avoid in the new Plus series are ones that Synology has explicitly listed as incompatible, and the HC530 is not on that list. It is a common high quality data center CMR disk that many users deploy in DS425+, DS925+, DS1525+, and DS1825+ successfully.
If you want to avoid any future restrictions entirely, QNAP and UGREEN have no vendor lock and work with every SATA drive with no warnings.