### Unverified 3rd party drive limitations and unofficial solutions
### UPDATE 7 Oct 2025
**DSM 7.3** has removed the many of the restrictions that were in DSM 7.2.2 for 2025 Plus models.
See https://kb.synology.com/en-global/DSM/tutorial/Drive_compatibility_policies
The restrictions that remain in DSM 7.3 for 2025 Plus models are:
1. You cannot create a cache or volume on 3rd party NVMe drives.
2. You still see lots of warnings in storage manager when using unverified 3rd party drives.
Both 1 and 2 can be solved with [Synology HDD db](https://github.com/007revad/Synology_HDD_db)
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### Unverified 3rd party drive limitations and unofficial solutions for DSM 7.2.2
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### Setting up a new 2025 or later plus model with only unverified HDDs
### Setting up a new 2025 or later plus model with only unverified HDDs in DSM 7.2.2
Credit to Alex_of_Chaos on reddit
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### Deleting and recreating your storage pool on unverified HDDs
### Deleting and recreating your storage pool on unverified HDDs in DSM 7.2.2
You can't download Synology HDD db to a volume because you've just deleted your storage pool. So you'd first need to download Synology HDD db to a system folder and run it from there.
- Installs the modules needed for Plex or Jellyfin hardware transcoding in DS425+ and DS225+.
- **<ahref="https://github.com/007revad/Synology_HDD_db/blob/main/2025_plus_models.md">2025 series or later Plus models</a>**
- Unverified 3rd party drive limitations and unofficial solutions.
- **<ahref="https://github.com/007revad/Synology_HDD_db/blob/main/2025_plus_models.md#setting-up-a-new-2025-or-later-plus-model-with-only-unverified-hdds">Setup with only 3rd party drives</a>**
- Setting up a new 2025 or later plus model with only unverified HDDs.
- **<ahref="https://github.com/007revad/Synology_HDD_db/blob/main/2025_plus_models.md#deleting-and-recreating-your-storage-pool-on-unverified-hdds">Recreating storage pool on migrated drives</a>**
- Deleting and recreating your storage pool on unverified HDDs.
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