TERRAMASTER F2-425 Plus

[Enquiries]

Hiya I'm thinking about replacing my Synology DS718+ with a TERRAMASTER F2-425 Plus. But I'd want to transfer across my current HDD's and they aren't on the compatibility list:
WD WDS400T1R0A-68A4Wo
Seagate ST12000NE0008-2JL101

As there both main stream NAS drives would you expect any issues using either of them?

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Hi, and thanks for the message. You can safely use those drives in the F2-425 Plus. TerraMaster’s compatibility list is not restrictive in the same way that Synology’s newer lists are. Their lists are only examples of what they have physically tested, not a requirement. In practice, TerraMaster accepts almost any SATA HDD or SSD, including WD Red and Seagate IronWolf models.

Your two drives are fully standard SATA models, so there should be no issue:

• WD WDS400T1R0A is a SATA SSD
• Seagate ST12000NE0008 is an IronWolf Pro 12 TB HDD

Both work normally in TerraMaster systems and will appear as standard available disks during setup. You can migrate the data by copying over the network or rebuilding the pool from a backup. You cannot insert an existing Synology SHR or Btrfs pool and have it mount directly, since TerraMaster uses its own file system layout, but the disks themselves are fine.

Adding NVMe drives is also straightforward, and the F2-425 Plus supports them for caching or for TOS 6 storage pools if you want an all-flash setup later.