From a quick skim, the author seems to have not noted that these are host-managed, so they’re not particularly useful individually.
Instead of holding all of the management logic on the drive itself, that’s done at the appliance level to manage load across disks—so these wouldn’t work in standard NAS devices, unless Seagate provides a binary or API for Synology or QNAP to implement in their firmware.
From a quick skim, the author seems to have not noted that these are host-managed, so they’re not particularly useful individually.
Instead of holding all of the management logic on the drive itself, that’s done at the appliance level to manage load across disks—so these wouldn’t work in standard NAS devices, unless Seagate provides a binary or API for Synology or QNAP to implement in their firmware.