Synology NAS

With any new hard drive you receive, disk break-in is necessary to ensure that the drive is fit to hold data. The process is no different, but finding the right disk path is.

You can run

 fdisk -l 

which will output a lot of mounts.. which in the case of the DS220+ I own, isn't much in theory. But, after a lot of trial and error, I have found that /dev/sata is the correct mounts to reference for full access to the disk. To list those disks in your NAS, run

 fdisk -l | grep /dev/sata 

Note, that due to how Synology utilizes a disk to get the OS functional to use, you won't be able to break in all the drives at once. If you have a spare drive you can toss in, that might help so that the OS can stay functional. The commands do not eat up a lot of RAM, so they can be run simultaneously. The disk can not be in use with the NAS.

https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/17/post/96581

https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/17/post/96581

https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/cgtrr3/testing_drives_prior_to_setting_new_nas/