News Synology starts selling overpriced 1.6 TB SSDs for $535 — self-branded, archaic PCIe 3.0 SSDs the only option to meet 'certified' criteria

[Admin]

Synology's new SNV5400 drive family has hit the shelves, and comes with a spit-take inducing price tag of $630 for 1.6 TB of PCIe 3.0 storage. The family goes as low as $175 for 400GB, representing more than 2x the industry standard for a matching NAS drive.

Synology starts selling overpriced 1.6 TB SSDs for $535 — self-branded, archaic PCIe 3.0 SSDs the only option to meet 'certified' criteria : Read more

 

[watzupken]

It’s the start of the downfall of a company when they impose artificial limitations amidst strong competition. I may be wrong, but the NAS market is very competitive with more Chinese companies joining the party. So even if they have better software, the cost of ownership will drive potential buyers away.

 

[Amdlova]

Toshiba enterprise 22110 nvme 1.92tb $78 on ebay
Only cons 7/8w idle

 

[Stomx]

100% SLC ?

 

[Pierce2623]

Toshiba enterprise 22110 nvme 1.92tb $78 on ebay
Only cons 7/8w idle

While you’re right about finding decent value on secondhand enterprise drives, the reason this story is a story is because on Synology’s 2025 NAS line-up you only get full technical and warranty support if you run Synology’s BS super overpriced drives in it. The bad part is even if you’re running MUCH better drives than their BS self-branded junk, you basically have no warranty support and you can’t access some drive metrics that would normally be easily available because all modern drives have the necessary sensors etc but the Synology software only lets you see it for a “Synology” drive. Also just for the record, up until this point, all the “Synology” drives have been 100% pure rebadges with zero customization or proprietary Synology stuff done to the drives. They’re literally just bargain bin rebadges sold as “Synology” drives.

 

[Notton]

That is a bold choice by Synology when there are better and cheaper NAS's out there.
Outside of the top two, Asustor, and Terramaster offer competitive NAS's,
but if you want extremely competitive... Beelink, and Aoostar.

 

[Ananimus]

RIP Synology. When this move started it remained to be seen just how much cost/benefit would be affected.

I'm not sure how even a big business can justify that cost though, and they're far and away from any potential personal use.

 

[satai]

En****fication at it's best.

 

[craigss]

I have a Synology unit and its ok but it has a lot of limitations as well as the stupid fact your hard drives cannot be read by anything other than a synology unit, this move for me spells the end of the line for synology purchases, nobody ever learns in the industry look at Sony and the stupid standards they imposed on memory cards and anyone remember the minidisc lol RIP Synology I think

 

[Balda666]

RIP and goodbye, Synology, I was a big fan, not any more. The only thing you did right was your NAS OS, all the rest was gradually becoming an excersise in greed and stupidity. Why don't you just split your lineup into enterprise, where costs doesnt matter and enthusiasts, where they can choose which way to go. Obsolete hardware in newly presented models, just because it's good enough? Screw you, darlings. I wonder how long you'll ride the train of success of your OS.

 

[nrdwka]

RIP and goodbye, Synology, I was a big fan, not any more. The only thing you did right was your NAS OS, all the rest was gradually becoming an excersise in greed and stupidity. Why don't you just split your lineup into enterprise, where costs doesnt matter and enthusiasts, where they can choose which way to go. Obsolete hardware in newly presented models, just because it's good enough? Screw you, darlings. I wonder how long you'll ride the train of success of your OS.

Escpecially now, when there is hardware agnostic user-friendly os is developped on top and with green light from truenas

 

[DS426]

Sad because this is stuff that some overpaid execs and upper management chatting in a meeting room came up and chose to implement; the typical customer-facing people, engineers, devs, low-level managers, and folks like that get screwed over by those at the top.

Yes, this would actually be acceptable on the enterprise side, but it appears Syn has let this apply even on consumer-grade models. Play with a bee's nest and you get stung.

 

[SomeoneElse23]

Unraid FTW.

 

[snemarch]

It's amazing they dare do this, considering just how easy TrueNAS is to manage – and it comes with a *real* filesystem...

 

[wmehojah]

Reminds me of the infamous Denon 500.00 ethernet cable. Guess no old scam is too old to try again!

 

[mazzsss]

Well goodbye newer Synology models then, i like the freedom of choosing my drives - just bought recently an 8tb used hp enterprise ssd for 350usd..... prefer to change nas when it comes to it

 

[spongiemaster]

I'm not sure how even a big business can justify that cost though, and they're far and away from any potential personal use.

Though I agree with your overall point, what home user is building a NAS using 1.6TB SSD's?

 

[altered-ego]

Unraid FTW.

... how easy TrueNAS is to manage ...

but I don't want to run this on a normal PC. I want it in a dedicated NAS box.

 

[Amdlova]

but I don't want to run this on a normal PC. I want it in a dedicated NAS box.

Dedicated = higher price

 

[tristanx]

So many SSD brands and models out there. This one will be invisible to everyone. The greed will kill Synology.

Built my own NAS long time ago. I can manage it myself. Never fed them any money.

 

[COLGeek]

Though I agree with your overall point, what home user is building a NAS using 1.6TB SSD's?

Typically, SSDs are used for caching. Not storage.

Regardless, this pricing is beyond excessive.

 

[USAFRet]

Though I agree with your overall point, what home user is building a NAS using 1.6TB SSD's?

Some people think they need that performance.

They are generally wrong, but that's what they think.

My movie library lives on my QNAP NAS, all spinning HDD (except for the system drive - SATA SSD)
A 2 hour movie takes 2 hours to watch, no matter what drive it is on

 

[Amdlova]

Guys find some sabrent rocket 3 2tb for $89,99 ebay cheap cheap. Has 21 drives

 

[Findecanor]

Hey, as much as people are wanting to dump on its price...

Enterprise-grade SSD:s tend to be overprovisioned quite a lot so that they would survive a few times more write-cycles than consumer grades would.
The measurement is in TBW - TeraBytes Written.
You won't find any consumer-grade drive sized 1.6 GB with 2900 TBW.

Whenever I am shopping for a SSD, I calculate the ratio TBW / price × 100 for every SSD I'm looking at and compare that ratio for drives at the size I want.
Unfortunately, for many brands you can't find the TBW figures on the store's web site or even on the manufacturer's web site, making comparisons difficult.

From what I can find (without spending too much time), there are drives out there with both better and worse TBW/price ratios than what this drive has. It's about average.

But an enterprise-grade drive might have other reasons for its price than just TBW.
And I could find other enterprise-grade drives at about the same size for about the same price.

 

[lmcnabney]

I don't think Synology is cool enough to act like Apple, but let's see what happens.