Synology HDD db

Description

Add your HDD, SSD and NVMe drives to your Synology's compatible drive database.

The script works in DSM 7 and DSM 6.

What the script does:

• Gets a list of the HDDs, SSDs and NVMe drives installed in your Synology NAS.
• Gets each drive's model number and firmware version.
• Checks if each drive is already in the Synology's compatible-drive database.
• Adds any missing drives to the Synology's compatible-drive database.

Planned updates:

• Detect any connected expansion units and get the model(s) and edit the correct expansion unit db files.
  • Or add support for users to specify their expansion unit model(s) as arguments.
  • Or maybe use the shotgun approach and update all expansion unit db files.
• Add support for SAS drives? Are SAS drives listed as /dev/sata# or /dev/sas# ?

Running the script

You can either run the script in a shell, or add a "User defined script" task to Synology's Task Scheduler to run as root.

sudo /path-to-script/syno_hdd_db.sh

Note: Replace /path-to-script/ with the actual path to the script on your Synology.

If you run the script with the -showedits flag it will show you the changes it made to the Synology's compatible-drive database. Obviously this is only useful if you run the script in a shell.

sudo /path-to-script/syno_hdd_db.sh -showedits

Note: Replace /path-to-script/ with the actual path to the script on your Synology.

Credits

The idea for this script came from a comment made by Empyrealist on the Synology subreddit.