Compatible Harddrives

[Franklin]

@Peter5019
The drive you have received is a member of the Seagate .11 family, as such, you may experience compatibility issues in the future. It's best to use drives which have been noted to be compatible by our engineering team, the list of compatible HDDs is in my signature.

@sammy95
There is no software limit preventing older Synology systems from using larger HDDs, it's a hardware matter whether or not that an older Synology system can adequately cool and provide power for larger HDDs. Considering that hardware support for the x06 series was discontinued a while ago, the documentation support stopped as well, which is 750GB size limit.

Note: there may be other concerns or minute behavior changes which can affect compatibility with older systems with newer HDDs, it may be best to use firmware 731 on your system.

Hope this helps

[compet_pl]

Hi Franklin!

Did you tested the new Seagate 7200.12 drives?
They (e.g. ST31000528AS or ST3750528AS) are available now.

Are they compatible with Synology?

Best regards

[wayland]

has anyone tried the WD20EADS in 07 models yet? i would be interested in replacing my WD10EADS drives with them once the price is more reasonable

[sammy95]

has anyone tried the WD20EADS in 07 models yet? i would be interested in replacing my WD10EADS drives with them once the price is more reasonable

When I bought my 10EADS, I did buy a 1TB WD Mybook and inside it it had a 10EADS that I took out.
The price for the 1TB MyBook at that time was more than 35% cheaper than the 10EADS HD drive bougth alone.
Understand it if You can..

Just a suggestion - Maybe You'll find the same thing about a 2TB WD Mybook..?

My old MyBook 1TB plastic cover & USB part now holds the old 500GB that I swapped the 1TB with,
so it is also still in use....

Sammy

[aleccheung]

DS-106e
DSM 2.0-0731

Hitachi HDT721010SLA360
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B 1TB

Compatible. Works fine!!

[nilgai]

I have a CS-406 with 2-WD5000KS Cavier SE16 drives (500GB) running as Raid 1 mirrored, with firmware DSM 2.0-0731. I've had to rebuild the 2nd drive several times now and would like to replace it while I still can. Can the new lower power consumption drives be used? I saw a report of someone using 2-1TB WD10EADS drives in a CS-406e. Would these work in a CS-406 or should I look at something else?

[mr ludvig]

Hi Gents
My synology needs a disk replacment. I tryed WD10EACS GreenPower, but orange led is flashing and it wont boot. Does that meen that my NAS is not supporting disk kind of disk?

Ludvig

[shelby_vn]

The WD KS-Variant does "work" with the CS407, or any of our models. However, the KS-Variant is marketed towards "Desktop" machines, designed for use in a single drive system. When used in a RAID environment, there is a "slightly" higher risk of the RAID Volume failing due to the WD drives remapping a bad sector. This is why WD recommends the YS-Class, as it is optimized for RAID Environments.

The YS-Class has TLER which you may read by clicking on the link. TLER is a technology developed by WD which helps improve the error recovery system in with HDDs in a RAID environment. YS-Class may also have improved temperature control systems, as RAID systems are a clustered with a lot of heat generating HDDs

Though sanitizing your HDDs before you use them (any HDD) should reduce the chance of the HDD remap a bad sector during it's operational cycle.

[drno123]

Did anyone try the new Seagate 5900.12 series in a DS?

[Alex.G]

RAID 1, using 2x
Western Digital WD7500AADS Caviar Green 750GB Hard Drive
no problem

Using:
DS209j, Firmware version - DSM 2.1-0844

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[HarryPotter]

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[louis]

Hi All,

Just wanted to let you know that Samsung F2 HD154UI 1.5TB drives work well in DS209+II

(p.s. I was initially looking for the WD green 1.5TB but availability is poor and prices are high in Europe) ... This HD154UI looks like a good and economic alternative.

BR/

Louis

[izani]

I've changed my DS106e 500gb hard disk WD 1tb.

Server name DiskStation
Model name DS-106e
Firmware version DSM 2.0-0731
System time Fri Jul 10 15:15:11 2009
Operating time 87:13:29

Disk model WDC WD10EADS-00L5B1
Temperature 34 °C / 93 °F
Total size 913.94 GB
Disk usage 53.94% 

So far so good, and I've disabled the disk hibernation.

Cheers

[tommyhj]

Fully compatible:

- Harddrive model: Seagate ST940210AS 2,5" SATA 40GB (Playstation 3 internal harddrive)
- Synology Product: Diskstation 109
- Firmware: DSM 2.1-0844
- Temperature on idle: 46 c (fan mode set to 2,5", fan comes on at 51c, sporadically on disk usage)
- Transfer speed on gigabit network: 15 mb/s read/write (slow for some reason, network capable of at least 20mb/s from USB drive attached to synology)
- Hibernation fully supported, disk does not spin up on normal LAN chatter.

I know this is a small drive, but it's a drive that most PS3 users has lying around, so it's good to know that it works great as a backup if your main drive should crash.

[wolfgang]

Hi All,

Just wanted to let you know that Samsung F2 HD154UI 1.5TB drives work well in DS209+II

(p.s. I was initially looking for the WD green 1.5TB but availability is poor and prices are high in Europe) ... This HD154UI looks like a good and economic alternative.

BR/

Louis

Hi @all

Using the same HD154UI 1.5TB drives in my DS207+ with beta 2.2.0914 for about 5 days, also with no problems yet, very cool and silent drives.
Setup as 2 basic volumes, no RAID level, hibernate works well, no performance lack compared to 7200rpm drives detected

Wolfgang