Synology DS925+ NAS Released (In the East!)

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1 Synology DS925+ NAS Officially Launches in Eastern Markets – Full Specs and Features Confirmed
1.1 Synology DS925+ Pricing and Availability
1.2 Synology DS925+ NAS HDD Compatibility in 2025
1.3 Final Thoughts
2 Need Advice on Data Storage from an Expert?

Synology DS925+ NAS Officially Launches in Eastern Markets – Full Specs and Features Confirmed

Following early retailer listings and semi-official leaks earlier this year, the Synology DS925+ NAS has now been formally launched in Eastern markets, including Taiwan, Japan, and China. With full documentation and product pages now publicly available, we finally have confirmation of the system’s complete hardware and software capabilities, as well as early indications of pricing and the compatibility of Hard Drives and SSDs (something of a hot button topic of late). As expected, this system builds on the DS923+’s foundation but introduces key changes that shift its performance profile and position within the Synology portfolio once again!

Specification Details
Model Synology DS925+
CPU AMD Ryzen V1500B (Quad-Core, 8 Threads)
CPU Frequency 2.2 GHz (Base Clock)
TDP 16W
Memory (Default/Max) 4GB DDR4 ECC (Expandable up to 32GB via 2 x SODIMM slots)
Drive Bays 4 x 3.5”/2.5” SATA HDD/SSD
M.2 NVMe Slots 2 x M.2 NVMe Gen 3 (Cache only; storage pools only with Synology SSDs)
RAID Support Basic, JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10
Network Ports 2 x 2.5GbE RJ-45 (Link Aggregation & Failover supported)
Max Link Speed Up to 5GbE with SMB Multichannel or LAG
PCIe Slot Not available
10GbE Upgrade Option Not supported
USB Ports 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5Gbps)
Expansion Port DX525 via USB-C (6Gbps interface)
eSATA Support Not available (replaced by USB-C)
File System Btrfs, EXT4
Max Concurrent Connections ~2,048 (depending on workload)
Virtualization Support VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Hyper-V, Docker
Surveillance Station Supported
Hardware Transcoding No integrated GPU (no hardware-accelerated transcoding)
Power Supply External 90W Adapter
Cooling 2 x 92mm Fans
Noise Level ~20.3 dB(A)
Chassis Material Metal & Plastic
Dimensions (HxWxD) 166 x 199 x 223 mm
Weight (Without Drives) ~2.2 kg
Operating Temperature 5°C – 40°C
Operating System Synology DSM 7.2+
Estimated Price £550 (Amazon UK, including VAT)
Warranty 3 Years Standard (5 Years with Extended Warranty)

At the heart of the DS925+ is the AMD Ryzen V1500B, a quad-core, eight-thread processor previously used in larger business-class NAS models like the DS1621+, DS1821+, and DS2422+. Its integration into a 4-bay unit marks the first time this CPU has appeared in Synology’s enthusiast/prosumer tier, bringing greater virtualization, multi-user performance, and multitasking efficiency to this class. With a base frequency of 2.2 GHz and TDP of 16W, the V1500B is a lower-power but more scalable chip compared to the dual-core R1600 in the DS923+, which has a higher clock but fewer threads. This change benefits users focused on Docker, VMs, or simultaneous file operations.

Specification AMD Ryzen Embedded V1500B AMD Ryzen Embedded R1600
Cores / Threads 4 Cores / 8 Threads 2 Cores / 4 Threads
Hyperthreading Yes Yes
Base Frequency 2.20 GHz 2.60 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core) Not Supported Up to 3.10 GHz
Turbo Frequency (All Cores) Not Specified Not Specified
Overclocking No No
TDP 16W 25W
Cache (L1 / L2 / L3) 384KB / 2MB / 32MB 192KB / 1MB / 4MB
Socket Type BGA1140 BGA1140
Architecture Zen (Normal) Zen (Normal)
CPU Class Embedded / Mobile Embedded / Mobile
First Seen Q2 2021 Q4 2022
Single Thread Rating (CPUBenchmark) 1230 (-28.7% vs R1600) 1724 (Higher)
CPU Mark (Overall) (CPUBenchmark) 4829 (Higher) 3276 (-32.1% vs V1500B)
Estimated Yearly Power Cost $2.92 $4.56

Confirmed in the datasheet is the DS925+’s dual 2.5GbE network ports, supporting Link Aggregation (LAG) and SMB Multichannel, allowing up to 5GbE aggregate throughput—a significant improvement over the DS923+’s 2x 1GbE configuration. Expansion also sees a shift: the DS925+ uses the new DX525 expansion unit, connected via USB-C (6Gbps), replacing the legacy eSATA-based DX517. Internally, the system includes four hot-swappable drive bays (3.5″/2.5″ SATA HDD/SSD), and two M.2 2280 NVMe Gen 3 slots for SSD caching or storage pools (when using Synology’s SNV series drives).

Memory support includes 4GB of DDR4 ECC by default, expandable up to 32GB via two SODIMM slots, and the system supports 200TB volumes (with 32GB RAM) and up to 32 internal volumes. Storage management features are as expected from DSM 7.2+, including Snapshot Replication, Hyper Backup, Active Backup for Business, and Hybrid Share. While the system does not support 10GbE upgrades (removal of mini PCIe slot), Synology appears to be emphasizing strong native network performance and reduced complexity over modular upgrades.

Physically, the chassis weighs 2.26kg, has two 92mm fans, and offers 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, alongside one USB-C expansion port. It operates within a 0°C to 40°C range, supports high altitudes up to 5,000m, and includes all standard Synology DSM security tools: firewalls, encrypted folders, SFTP, HTTPS with custom ciphers, and Adaptive MFA. As a data platform, the DS925+ supports 500,000 hosted files in Synology Drive, up to 80 Office users, and 150 Synology Chat users. On the virtualization side, it supports VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix, OpenStack, and allows for up to 8 virtual DSMs or VM instances (license-dependent). Surveillance support includes two default camera licenses, and scalable support for up to 40 IP cameras at 1200FPS (H.265), with full integration into Surveillance Station and optional C2 cloud backup.

Feature Synology DS925+
Operating System Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) 7.2+
Supported File Systems (Internal) Btrfs, EXT4
Supported File Systems (External) Btrfs, EXT4, EXT3, FAT32, NTFS, HFS+, exFAT
File Protocols SMB, AFP, NFS, FTP, WebDAV, Rsync
Snapshot Replication Up to 128 snapshots per shared folder
Backup Solutions Active Backup Suite, Hyper Backup, C2 Backup
Hybrid Cloud Synology Hybrid Share (with C2 Storage)
Virtualization Support VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix, OpenStack
Drive Synchronization & Access Synology Drive
Photo/Video Management Synology Photos
Document Collaboration Synology Office
Team Communication Synology Chat
Mail Server Synology MailPlus (5 free accounts)
Calendar & Scheduling Synology Calendar
Monitoring & Security Active Insight, Adaptive MFA, Firewall, Auto-block, HTTPS, Let’s Encrypt
User Management 512 Users, 128 Groups, 128 Shared Folders
Surveillance Station 2 Free Camera Licenses, Up to 40 Channels (license required)
VPN Server Support Up to 8 concurrent connections
Browser Compatibility Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge
Language Support 20+ Languages (EN, FR, DE, IT, ES, JP, CN, etc.)

Synology DS925+ Pricing and Availability

Following the official launch of the Synology DS925+ NAS in Eastern markets—including Taiwan, China, and Japan—we now have more concrete pricing details. In China, the base unit without drives is priced at ¥4,999, which converts to approximately £500 before tax. Pre-configured options are also being sold, featuring combinations of Synology’s own-branded hard drives in 4TB, 8TB, 16TB, and even 64TB arrays. For example, a DS925+ with 2 x 8TB Synology drives (16TB total) is listed at ¥8,469 (~£845 pre-tax), while a fully populated 64TB configuration with 4 x 16TB drives is priced at ¥14,919 (~£1,490 pre-tax). In the UK and other Western markets, the DS925+ is expected to launch in early May, with Amazon UK listings already live very briefly last week before it was taken offline, showing the base unit at £550 including VAT. Here’s a rough estimate pricing table for the Synology DS925+ configurations, converted from Chinese Yuan (CNY) to both US Dollars (USD) and British Pounds (GBP) using the exchange rates as of April 22, 2025 (remember this does not precisely calculate tax across nations and their currencies, so these are for rough guidance only):

  • 1 Yuan= 0.1371 USD

  • 1 Yuan = 0.1025 GBP​

Configuration Price Yuan Price (USD) Price (GBP)
DS925+ (Diskless) ¥4,999 $685 £512
DS925+ + 2 x 2TB HDD (4TB total) ¥6,379 $875 £654
DS925+ + 2 x 4TB HDD (8TB total) ¥6,659 $913 £683
DS925+ + 4 x 2TB HDD (8TB total) ¥7,759 $1,063 £795
DS925+ + 2 x 6TB HDD (12TB total) ¥7,479 $1,025 £766
DS925+ + 2 x 8TB HDD (16TB total) ¥8,469 $1,161 £868
DS925+ + 4 x 4TB HDD (16TB total) ¥8,319 $1,140 £853
DS925+ + 2 x 12TB HDD (24TB total) ¥9,679 $1,327 £992
DS925+ + 4 x 6TB HDD (24TB total) ¥9,959 $1,365 £1,020
DS925+ + 2 x 16TB HDD (32TB total) ¥9,959 $1,365 £1,020
DS925+ + 4 x 8TB HDD (32TB total) ¥11,939 $1,635 £1,224
DS925+ + 4 x 12TB HDD (48TB total) ¥14,359 $1,968 £1,472
DS925+ + 4 x 16TB HDD (64TB total) ¥14,919 $2,046 £1,528

Note: Prices are approximate and based on exchange rates as of April 22, 2025. Actual prices may vary due to fluctuations in exchange rates and regional pricing policies with regard to inclusive tax at checkout.

The accompanying DX525 5-bay USB-C expansion chassis—which replaces the legacy DX517 and uses a similar metal casing—is priced at £439. These prices align with Synology’s long-standing strategy of maintaining consistent MSRP targets for its 2-, 4-, and 5-bay Prosumer-tier NAS units year-over-year, even when internal hardware evolves.

Synology DS925+ NAS HDD Compatibility in 2025

One of the biggest shifts accompanying the DS925+ release is Synology’s newly enforced drive compatibility policy on 2025 and newer NAS systems. Starting with this model, only drives listed on the official Product Compatibility List (PCL) will be supported during initial installation. At launch, this list consists exclusively of Synology-branded HDDs and SSDs, though Synology has confirmed that it plans to expand the third-party validation program moving forward. This move represents a broader shift by Synology toward an appliance-like ecosystem, citing increased reliability, faster support diagnostics, and significantly reduced system anomalies when validated media is used. According to the company, using listed drives can reduce storage-related issues by up to 40%, while severe disk anomalies on newer systems have reportedly decreased by as much as 88% under the new policy. Even though the DS925+ NAS has not been globally launched, in the regions it HAS been launched (China, Australia and Jopan, at the time of writing) it has opened up access to the DS925+ hard drive compatibility pages. Here is what you will find:

Practically speaking, this doesn’t mean you can’t install third-party drives (e.g. Seagate or WD), but using unlisted drives may limit your access to certain features—such as volume creation, deduplication, disk health analytics, automatic firmware updates, and even eligibility for Synology technical support. Fortunately, drive migrations from older Synology systems are supported, and older Plus series models (up to and including 2024) remain unaffected.

Still, new users and businesses investing in DS925+ hardware should factor these limitations into their decision, especially if they plan on using existing non-Synology drives. We are still awaiting FULL confirmation on the extent of the utility of 3rd party HDDs in realword use however. For example – can you even initialize a Synology DS925+ NAS with unverified Synology Hard Drives? There have been claims online that you cannot – but until this is fully verified, I/we will need to hold off full judgement!

Final Thoughts

The Synology DS925+ marks a meaningful update to the company’s 4-bay Plus series—bringing improvements in multi-core processing, networking, and system efficiency. The shift to a more capable 4-core, 8-thread AMD V1500B CPU, combined with 2.5GbE networking and modernized expansion via USB-C, ensures this model is better suited to the needs of virtualized, multi-user, and SMB environments. Yet, some users will see the removal of the PCIe slot for 10GbE upgrades as a notable loss, especially compared with the DS923+ which retains this feature.

That said, the DS925+ does benefit from many refinements learned across the Synology portfolio, and its arrival coincides with a broader strategy shift—one that tightens integration between hardware and software while prioritizing platform consistency. This NAS is clearly aimed at power users and businesses ready to invest in Synology’s controlled ecosystem, and for those who are fine with that trade-off, it offers a lot of value. However, prospective buyers who are still committed to third-party drives or planning future high-speed networking upgrades may want to carefully weigh their long-term priorities before making a decision.

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      479 thoughts on “Synology DS925+ NAS Released (In the East!)”

      1. I have a DS918+ system that has become more and more abstract after the update. That is, you need to apply a patch for the external 2.5G network card, a patch for the video station, a patch for H.265 encoding, a patch for external M.2 storage, and a patch for the automatic renewal of the https certificate ACME. If you want to use a camera, you have to apply another patch, and you have to apply it again after each upgrade. Can you count how many patch scripts need to be run for each system update? And this will greatly reduce the stability of the system. The DSM web page is very easy to crash when the network cannot connect to their qc server, and the DS file cannot be accessed. Do you still have to restart the host? The most abstract thing is that from time to time, qc requires you to upload the video of the machine. You have to write a note and put a clock on the mobile phone web page to prove that your machine is yours. I have uploaded it two or three times. This is really no different from a hacked one. Limiting the use of hard disks is an even more stupid decision. Migrating from older models means that users can simply bypass this restriction by using third-party software to write hard disk partition tables and systems, but if users know these complex command line operations, why do they need to spend a high price to buy official equipment? It would be easier to install DSM or even other operating systems directly on obsolete computers!
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      2. I have been and the emphasis here is on been a customer or user of Synology products for many years now.
        I once had problems with a DS1515+ with disks from WD that were not on the compatibility list.
        This was due to the batch of disks. It wouldn’t have made any difference if they had been on the list.
        Then I once had an NVME SSD fail. It wasn’t on the list either. But it also failed completely, so
        the list wouldn’t have made any difference here either.

        For years it has been annoying that you couldn’t transfer the warranty to the new owner if you sold it.
        I got stupid answers from Synology, such as that it could not be guaranteed that the device had been properly packaged,
        when it was sent to the new owner.
        Oh, that’s why the electrolytic capacitor in the power supply burst months later, because the box, which was the original packaging, was not ok……
        Then there were the various annoyances of the customers: volumes only with NVME SSDs, which are on the list,
        the annoying message regarding incompatible drives and so on.
        Now the final bully of the customers, with this ridiculous “only our drives” nonsense.
        As if the customer couldn’t have been given a choice. Support for drive problems when it’s our disks, none when they’re not ours.
        Simply confirm with a check mark when setting up the pool.
        Hey Synology, thanks for making my decision to switch to another brand easier.
        In any case, I’ll vote with my wallet and avoid you in the future.
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      6. Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com has started pre-sale of 925+ .And Customer service confirmed that only Synology hard drives and hard drives that pass the compatibility list can be used.The other hard drives were not recognized at all, unlike the previous enterprise-level 1823xs, which showed an incompatible warning but could actually be used.

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      8. I’ve been wanting to get the UGREEN NAS for ages. It wasn’t available in the UK so I got a Synology for the first time two months ago… now Synology do this and UGREEN NAS is available in the UK. Why oh why!
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      9. Update – The Synology DS925+ NAS is now available in the East. More on this, early pricing, HDD compatibility and the hardware here – https://nascompares.com/2025/04/23/synology-ds925-nas-released-in-the-east/
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      10. The biggest joke is not even the enforced hdd-policy, but that my DS1522+ from 2022 has the same AMD CPU that they’ll put into most of the 25+ series and the DS1522+ has 8GB ECC and you’re lucky to see that in the 25+ lineup… Basically zero reason to upgrade to begin with.
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      11. First, I hope everything goes well in the hospital appointment, God bless her.

        Now about knowledge, I have a DS715 for so many years I love my unit and I have 2x 8 TB drives Western digital red , of being housing for a long time before upgrading I was prepared to spend thousand pounds in a new unit, this makes me very frustrated because the hardware is expensive from knowledge and they leave us very tight in terms of what we can and cannot do now they’re doing this. The lost a costumer are gonna go elsewhere
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      12. I’ve been using Synology NAS for a long time. I have looked at them for a long time the low equipment compared to the competition. But now the patronising in choosing the HDD or SSD is too much for me.

        If Synology really implements this, I will change the manufacturer. Bye Synology
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      13. Sad to see how Synology is manoeuvring itself into irrelevance. Who in their right mind wants to be locked in into their a) underpowered and b) overpriced hardware? DSM is good, but not as good to override the severe hardware disadvantages (not just w.r.t storage) one has to accept when choosing Synology.
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      15. UPDATE #3 – (22/04) – I have been in communication with several representatives from Synology regarding this matter to get further clarification on this from them. The following statement was provided by a senior Synology representative and provided publicly with their consent :

        “Synology’s storage systems have been transitioning to a more appliance-like business model. Starting with the 25-series, DSM will implement a new HDD compatibility policy in accordance with the published Product Compatibility List. Only listed HDDs are supported for new system installations. This policy is not retroactive and will not affect existing systems and new installations of already released models. Drive migrations from older systems are supported with certain limitations.

        As of April 2025, the list will consist of Synology drives. Synology intends to constantly update the Product Compatibility List and will introduce a revamped 3rd-party drive validation program.”

        Reason for the new Synology HCL Policy:
        Each component in a Synology storage solution is carefully engineered and tested to maintain data security and reliability. Based on customer support statistics over the past few years, the use of validated drives results in nearly 40% fewer storage-related issues and faster issue diagnostics and resolution.

        – Each validated hard drive on the compatibility list undergoes over 7,000 hours of comprehensive compatibility testing across platforms to ensure operational reliability.
        – Technical support data shows that validated drives result in a 40% lower chance of encountering critical disk issues.
        – For models that have adopted the new hard drive compatibility policy, severe storage anomalies have decreased by up to 88% compared to previous models.

        By adhering to the Product Compatibility List, we can significantly reduce the variances introduced by unannounced manufacturing changes, firmware modifications, and other variations that are difficult for end-users and Synology to identify, much less track. Over the past few years, Synology has steadily expanded its storage drive ecosystem, collaborating with manufacturing partners to ensure a stable and consistent lineup of drives with varying capacities and competitive price points. Synology intends to expand its offerings and is committed to maintaining long-term availability, which is not available with off-the-shelf options. We understand that this may be a significant change for some of our customers and are working on ways to ease the transition. Synology is already collaborating with our partners to develop a more seamless purchasing experience, while maintaining the initial sizing and post-install upgrade flexibility that DSM platforms are renowned for.” – Senior Synology Representative on the record.
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      17. I wish for the EU and pretty much any country to take an official position, making unlawful to lock spare oarts compatibility or limit functionalities to “genuine” parts.
        They partially demonstrated they can do it with USB-C and right-to-repair. They should fo the same fir everything!
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      19. I’ve bought two NAS over the last years. Both from Synology. There’s no way I’m buying a locked one… Time to look at the competitors. Vote with your wallets 😉
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      20. Imho not a smart move. They’ve always been a little bit behind the ball on hardware relying on their software to carry them. Others are catching up and now they’ve just opened the door to a flood of alternatives whose hardware is superior and software is quickly catching up. Some alternatives even allow you to install third-party software such as trueness or unpaid. Bye-bye Synology.
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      22. synology became uninteresting a few years ago when they began using amd chips without any transcoding features.. and it was evident even back then that they were going in a more “business” oriented route.. aka fuck home users
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      24. I love watching the videos on this channel, ❤ but I always end up with build your own NAS. I want to be able to replace every part of my NAS at will OS, hard drives, SSDs, motherboard, case etc. If one part fails I want to be able to swap out that part with another off the shelf part. Synology just want to reduce features and lock in users. Yeah, no thanks, I will pass. ????
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      28. That’s okay I’ve got a DS718+. Boycott! Going down the NVIDIA route! JUMP SHIP! This is where they forget about the users that made them and chase enterprise! lol RIP Synology! We have 30TB on the market right now. Synology’s drive compatibility is never updated! and years behind! Can we get a review for free NAS now? Updated…
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      30. I can’t be the only one who got into NAS, after already having a bunch of disparate HDD enclosures (or disks sitting on shelves alone) and figured I might aswell group them in a box and have raid support. If you have to get in with full ticket price with 4 brand new drives, the situation is completely different, not to mention they already do like 10000% margin on their trash bottom of the barrel hardware.
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      34. Looking to tech refresh my DS1019+ w/DX517 soon. Sadly, Synology has lost my business. Currently looking at the QNAP TVS-h1688X-W1250-32G but it looks a bit dated.
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      40. If true, this is going to be a real stupid move… As a manufacturer, you can recommend your own drives, but forcing them down your clients throats only serves to alienate your clients from your brand. Many years ago, I bought a Western Digital My Cloud NAS. It had Western Digital drives in it, which is fair, but you cannot sell me an empty NAS and then tell me that I MUST buy your hard drives as well. If Synology wants to do that, then they must start selling their NAS units with the hard drives included.
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      44. This is a huge betrayal for the loyal synology fans. I loved my synology. I would happily scoff at the likes of qnap and asustor, but now synology turns around and stabs people like me in the back. Screw synology. I won’t be recommending them to anyone anymore.
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      46. All the harddisks will still work just like now there only will be a warning like there already is when you add non synology drives.. what a big amount of fear is being spread. being able to migratie your discs form the old to the new says enough. just some silly functions like firmware update and lifespan prediction crap wont work
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      47. Congratulations to Synology. After being a customer for 14 year you are now on the permanent ban list. This is the 1+1 how to maximise money move. This has NOTHING to do with compatibility PERIOD.
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      48. Tis happening. Purchased a new 1821+ to replace my 920+. My hc550 wd 18 tb drives are not on the compatibility list therefore they don’t work… they worked fine foe years in my old nas. Reached out to syno, they gave me bs about testing and compatibility, bla bla. I am very disappointed. It was the last synology product I buy. I was a loyal customer for over a decade. Nas-s, even security cameras. They gave me the finger.
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      50. locked in – its a negative word because it is negative for its consumers and we should not stop using it but call it out for what it is, another money grab. synology has not started “manufacturing” drives, they whitelabeling existing wd drives (may be with a special touch from them).

        this should be called out, and yes, negatively called out.

        also this is not hardware based, its simple software detection, as of writing this you can setup your drives in an OLD synology (pre 2025) and use the drivearay in the new nas w/o issues.
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      52. I wrote to them and here is their response: With the launch of the new Synology 25 Plus series product lineup, Synology is introducing a streamlined compatibility policy designed to enhance reliability and improve user experience. Synology-branded drives will be needed for use in the newly announced Plus series, with plans to update the Product Compatibility List as additional drives can be thoroughly vetted in Synology systems.

        Additionally, Synology will be introducing a carefully curated drive compatibility framework for those wanting to integrate third-party drives into their Synology systems. Users can submit drives for a comprehensive testing and documentation process. Drives that meet Synology’s stringent standards may be validated for use, offering flexibility while maintaining system integrity.

        It is important to note that existing Synology products released prior to the ‘25 series will continue to support third-party drives in accordance with current compatibility guidelines, and this change does not affect J and Values Series models. Additionally, users will be able to migrate older drives from previous Synology models into the new ‘25 models, ensuring that their data is still accessible and protected.

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        If you would like to recommend a third-party drive for future consideration in our compatibility lists for the 2025 product line, you can submit your suggestion through our website using the following link:

        https://www.synology.com/en-us/form/suggest_device
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      57. Well two can play the locking game. When I need new NAS devices, I will be locking my money away from Synology and I suggest others do the same. We cannot allow companies like Synology to get away with this shit. Vote with your money. It’s the only thing these companies understand!
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      60. Maybe such leaked information is just a marketing ploy to more easily sell-off the current generation of products, thinking that will be still able to run third-party drives on current generation, and that everything will be different after the new generation will be released? Anyway, if this is reality, I’m already annoyed that when I was equipping myself with several NAS models 1-2 years ago, I should have tried QNAP.
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      64. So glad I got rid of my 918+. And, if they keep it up, my 220j is next. There are at least 3 other brands (Asustor, Ugreen and Terramaster) that haven’t come over all stupid like. Synology has lost the plot and their software is not worth the squeeze of having to buy ‘their’ (sic) own brand HW.
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      68. American’s don’t list tax on online items being sold because they expect you to figure it out. All the states have different sales tax (their equivalent of GST) and online companies have never listed sales tax for every state.
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      71. I don’t mind good manufacturers doing this sort of thing. As long as they have the quality and performance to back up such decisions, I just roll with it. I’ll be expanding my Synology NAS soon with an extra 5 bays expansion of the (NON 2025)series. That buys me about 12-18 months before I have to seriously revisit this matter.
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      73. Fuk synology. They haven’t been consumer friendly for years. Overpriced underpowered hardware with more unnecessary consumer unfriendly decisions. I left them 2 years ago after almost 15 years. Good riddance.
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      77. I have bought three Synology NAS boxes as I upgraded over the years. My next upgrade will NOT be Synology if I am forced to buy specific storage.

        Bye bye Synology ????????????
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      80. I latey built an DIY 8bay/10gbit/x64/UnRaid NAS for less than I paid for my DS423+ and their stupid proprietary 10gbit addon-card that doesn’t even support WOL. Should have gone that route a long time ago.
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      81. If this is true then Synology as a solution for me is off the table. I do not want to be locked into one specific brand. Plus, capacity and pricing is important to me.
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      86. I have been waiting forever for a ds1825+… and when I heard this news it really depressed me. In all honesty I was waiting to give Synology another 1500 Canadian for my next NAS. Now what I’ve done, as of today is put in motion and bought a new server with an Intel i5-12500 based system with 10Gb capable Ethernet connection. Well, that ended up costing me about $2,000 and I’m going to have to pony up another $200 for an UNRAID licence. Obviously my hardware will be better and I’m hoping the UNRAID software system will be just as impressive. For me, the worst part is I really do like Synology. But if UNRAID is anywhere near as good as other people are saying, I will never go back to Synology. As a side note I have three other synergies running in my office as well, and they also may be my last ones.

        Synology, I have to say, you’re really shooting yourself in the foot. But thanks for the last 12 years anyway. Bye.
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      88. I used their Plus models for my sole personal use simply because they are not annoyingly slow. Normal and j models were slow as hell. Bye Synology, you were great, but not anymore.
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      89. Thats because people buying SMR drives running them in RAID and hammering the drives until they fail.

        Not everyone is educated on buying PMR drives that actually work properly.

        Synology don’t want lawsuits from people putting crappy SMR drives into their NAS and using it without understanding the technology differences between the drives and how they would perform relative to the drives use case.
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      95. Haha, i was going to buy expensive synology but now, I’ve will simply go with competition.

        Synology is getting greedy. To greedy.

        Thank you synology for helping me choose correctly.
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      99. Meh. Apple has been doing this FOREVER… trying just grabbing an off-the-shelf… ANYTHING, and get you Mac to accept it. People want simplicity in use, and having a closed ecosystem ensures that, especially if they’re ALSO running their own RAID tech on their drives. I get where people might be upset that they’re “taking away” choice here, but I seriously doubt this is going to cause much of a blip in Synology’s sales (again, see Apple). Hate it if you want, but it’s a sound business move that will pay off for them.
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      103. So Synology is really going down the path of restricting NAS features unless you use their blessed-by-Synology hard drives?
        That’s not just vendor lock-in 101, it’s also flirting with anti-competitive behavior, especially in the EU.
        Locking out standard SATA drives or limiting functionality unless you use their SKU? That’s not security – that’s control.
        This move undermines what NAS systems should be: flexible, user-configurable, and hardware-agnostic.
        EU laws around Right to Repair and unfair business practices are getting tighter – and this kind of nonsense is exactly what lawmakers are starting to target.
        We get it: cheap drives can be a problem. But punishing advanced users for wanting choice and control over their own hardware? Big nope.
        This is how you lose the Homelab crowd – and once they’re gone, they’re not coming back.
        What’s your take? Reasonable ecosystem strategy or full-blown anti-consumer move?
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      104. How to ruin a company in two simple steps. Step 1 : embrace the Woke Agenda ; step 2: make all the accessories only work with your approved brand. If this happens RIP Synology
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      105. Watching the situation unfold, I’m honestly glad that QNAP still is the strength competitor to Synology on the global market and now I just hope they’ll make the most of it – and most importantly, that they won’t completely screw it up like Synology has managed to do over the past few years, with some decisions that felt outright against their own users ????
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      106. The Synology business and popularity was built on home users. Home users want the option to use WD Green, shucked external, or refurbished enterprise drives if we want.
        Synology is still the popular option – possibly the best turn-key option based on the software. I’ve said it before, but if TruNAS could recreate Synology Hybrid RAID, I’d have no interest in Synology.
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      111. Wow mediocre hardware and now hardware lock in, this is crazy levels of arrogance. They really do’t want people to buy their NAS’ ? A lot more options rolling out now, companies like UGreen are improving their OS at a good rate.
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      112. Wow that’s terrible. I used to use a synology for a media server but swapped to using my Mac Studio with an external drive and it’s all backed up to Backblaze. But if I had a need for a NAS again, certainly looking at alternatives.
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      114. If the NAS stops working with my WD drives then I am done with this company and it’s products. As simple as that. You lock it down you lose your customer. I have zero brand loyalty when it comes to this. Same applies to all companies Apple, Tesla etc if synology wants to be added to this group of companies it will have consequences
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      115. Every dumb decision a company makes can always be traced back to one singular reason. Money. I’m sure they will try to use fancy words or round about bullshit explanations of how this is “best for the consumer”, but we ALL know this is only about their profit margins. They want the added profit of selling you THEIR drives, which they dont get when you buy Seagate or Western digital from a retailer. This also opens the door for them to add in ‘planned obsolescence’ and/or ‘planned failure’ into their drives to get you to buy more of them. “Hey, i see your 16TB drive is starting to fail, this would be a great time to upgrade to the new 30TB drive. And hey, since you wouldn’t get full advantage out of it by itself, why not by enough to replace ALL your drives? Oh, and for reasons ‘beyond our control’, we’ve had to increase the prices of *our* drives. We know other brands sell 30TB drives for $50-100 less, but *unfortunately* those will not work in your… err i mean *our* system. ;)”

        Just wait.. It’ll happen.
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      119. I predict they will back out of this once they realize that people no longer will buy their devices.

        I think the approach is fair on the professional models, but not on consumer devices (plus series)
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      120. I really don’t like closed systems. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to buy a Synology in the first place if it meant being locked to them. I know that there is a way to take the disks out and convert them to be used in another system, but I really wouldn’t want to try that. I like DSM. It does way more than I need and I now use more functions than I thought I would use.

        My fears were put to the test at the beginning of the year when I had a UPS fault that ended up with the dreaded blue flashing light. Thankfully, with a bit of research, I was able to strip the unit down, remove and replace the CMOS battery, and have it all back to normal. It didn’t end up being a costly Synology only purchase.

        However, limiting where the disks come from would be another push into building my own NAS when it comes time to replace the unit.
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      121. With all my love to Syno products, this is “no go” for me for its future devices, since I know how these things always end. No competition – no reason to make things better or even good enough/”hello” to performance tests on Synology SSD(another route is adding price for nothing/either features not all customers actually need).
        Earlier or later it always goes to this scenario. Simple as it is.
        P.S. is Synology manufacturing its own HDDs btw? I mean from start to end, without relabeling OEM products or adding own chipsets/firmware just to have better control over HDD state and analyse it…
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      125. This is sad news I have to say. I ha e always recommended Synology with iron wolf drives to all my small business clients for their backups and C2 options, but this will be a step too far imo if those drives are any more expensive than those ironwolfs. I have many Synology xs and plus systems privately as well that I was considering replacing this year. Now that won’t happen
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      132. Theres no doubht that Synology is not doing this for reliability or performance reasons. Its fully commercial. However, this move together with usage of old hardware is going to reduce the number of home users and change the customer base into small companies or people who is working from home and want to put down such money. Private users will find alternatives. This is quite obvious and Synology has probably foreseen the growing market from UNRAID, ASUSTOR, UGREEN etc. as taking over this segment anyway and dont want to focus/compete on this. It makes seance considering that the only reason for this segment to choose Synology is for the DSM software and the competition is narrowing the gap in this area too! -So Synology will be for small businesses mainly and thats their focus! Every company has the right to chose their direction.
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      133. This is just BS. We all know who actually makes HDDs these days. Synology isn’t one of those companies, it is just putting a sticker on a commodity drive made by someone else. It isn’t a special drive or a better drive or a drive specifically tweaked to their exacting specifications or anything like that. They think their customers are locked in and can’t easily switch away, so they are basically imposing a big price increase on them and daring them to go to UGreen or QNAP, etc. They are just about to find out they aren’t as special as they think they are. All they are really selling is networked storage, after all. We all know that you can even roll your own here if you are sufficiently unhappy with the commercially available options. Like most existing Synology customers, I am willing to pay a SMALL premium for the convenience/security/etc. of the Synology ecosystem, but I will be damned if I am going to be locked into some stupid proprietary drive scheme. This is going to be a huge opportunity for Synology’s competitors, because nobody wants to eat a big price increase on this stuff right now, the timing of all this couldn’t be worse.
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      140. If these Synology proprietary systems and proprietary drives fall short of at least equalling to if not bettering what’s already out there in price and quality THEN I believe we are seeing the beginning of the end for Synology. Greedy companies that go from a democracy start to a dictatorship or communistic approach always wind up going bust sooner or later. Too much by way of selection/choice out there for them to pull this off. The fact that they are even attempting this shows the internal toxicity that is Symbology. WAIT, just checked and said Synology is a Taiwanese company. So Taiwan wants to be democratic and independent yet their companies actions are that of a communist approach? What absolute hypocrites you are!
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      143. My old DS410j has been dying, so I’d been looking for a new Synology NAS for the past 6 months. I’d been sold on the idea of a new Synology until I started reviewing the landscape. I’m glad I pulled the trigger on a UGreen 4800 plus during National Backup week
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      144. Synology has such a solid ecosystem that it is a real shame that they are offing themselves with stupid hardware decisions and restrictive choices. Hey Synology! Your stupid rebranded drives will never outperform my Exos drives! Your RAM is nothing special!

        They could just make the same thing and do fine, but they’re determined to anger every fan.
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      147. How to tank a company in 2 seconds. If I hear of one person being locked out of thier Nas over this I will get rid of the Synology and move to some other brand. This is a really bad move.
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      150. Is it far fetch to think that the next step for Synology is it make their drives “only compatible with their unit and OS? If that’s the case, they can have all of our data hostage.
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      151. So they basically are saying “Don’t buy our product.” I wouldn’t consider a NAS product that forced me to buy their drives. It’s like a printer manufacturer that won’t let you buy generic ink/toner. F that.
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      152. Synology has fully gone the Apple iPhone route by locking down their software and now the hardware. The problem is that no one tinkers with the inside of their phone but most NAS users are technology savvy and by nature need to tinker and swap drives as needed. The used Synology market is going to be main source for 2024 and older units.
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      153. Based on how Synology has lackluster hardware for the NAS itself I can only assume the disk drives are the same sort of lackluster hardware. I don’t want it their cheap crap. I’ve been a loyal Synology user since 2011, but if this announcement is true I’m finished with Synology.
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      154. So the EU goes after Apple for using a proprietary power cable, but they don’t go after a PC manufacturer for forcing the use of their branded (not MANUFACTURER just BRANDED) higher priced products? Because we may call it a storage device, a NAS is essentially a PC.

        Didn’t we already have this court case in Europe and the US a couple of decades ago?
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      158. *The background is pure greed… many millions of servers use Linux – just like Synology. And it would have been known for a long time if performance, reliability or functions were worse with certain disks.* But… there is no sign or indicators.
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      159. *The background is pure greed…* we are a company with 800 employees and for almost a quarter of a century we have NEVER had problems with disks – *that’s the great thing about Linux, on which Synology is also based.*
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      161. So, a cut-down open source smartctl’s header file, that’s what we now call “compatibility” and “high standards”? This is a shameless money grab and we should fight it; if we don’t – the next thing we remember will be terramaster or ugreen or qnap branded drives for the respected systems
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      162. *The background is pure greed, HP also has a lock-in strategy with their extremely expensive storage systems. “Other drives don’t work”, HP declared, which was and is a shameless lie:* We have operated HP storage servers in our data centers exclusively with NON-HP disks and have never had any problems. And we saved far more than 50% because other manufacturers also offer a 5-year warranty.
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      166. I wanted to like Synology, I really did. But I wasn’t feeling the vibe and went the QNAP route in 2022, despite the clunkier software. I have yet to regret my decision, especially after announcements like this!
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      168. Assuming true, and I have little doubt it is, that’s the end of Synology for me. Time to move to UniFi for raw storage, and a NUC-style PC for VMs, instead of bothering with this baloney.

        At work, I feed our 6-figure Enterprise RAIDs with Seagate enterprise drives, and there is no malarky about vendor lock-in adding to system reliability.
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      178. This change is nonsense. For one, it is anti-competitive and Synology will be sued or banned. This is the equivalent if google were to block Bing searches in Android.

        Secondly, Synology drives are crap. This will incentivise them to make even worse drives if you have to buy from them. I belive this could be construed as a blatent disregard of right to repair laws.

        They dont even know what they have got themselves into.
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      182. imagine me having 40 free HDDs /from my Chia farm/ ranging from 5TB-16TB and using all Truenas, Xpenology, Synology, Storj etc… I was hoping sometimes in the future to have them all in 8-bay Syno NASes… Now jast basicly fok them. We in our company will stop selling this brand as they have ZERO support in real problems. This company is a joke now. CPU from 6y ago in 2025 models, 2.5GN NIC after maybe 7y later than QNAP, HDD lock-in ? How stupid people must be in this company ?
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      187. Another comment for Synology: may be (just may be) I will be OK with branded hard drives but then please update and stop removing apps and functions from the DSM. So users will be milked by the branded hard drives and the value of DSM will be lower because of lots of poorly made and poorly maintained software. So decrease of value and loss of reputation.
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      188. Ok. Next NAS upgrade will be again self assembled and self installed software. It was nice five years with Synology, but recent Synology moves makes it completely vendor-locked, and then software packges removed and so on. And still 1 gbit ports and no NVMe NAS for home… So, ok, end of an era. Bye-bye then.
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      194. I just completed my Synology setup, after 6 years of saving up a main DS220+ and a DS223 as a backup and now this. F**k me! I’m using this shitty hardware untill it dies on me and I’m going to explore Unraid in the meanwhile. HexOS needs to be ready NOW! Tons of home users will be jumping ship, I will too eventually
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      211. I currently have a DS1821+ With 8 Seagate Ironwolf Pro 10tb drive and if Synology is no longer supporting 3rd party drive i will never use or buy there products again and sell the one i have and buy something like a Qnap or maybe the new OPNNAS or build my own rack mount system. What they are doing is being greedy.
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      213. What are the chances? I picked Drobo 15 years ago and they self imploded. Then I head Synology is the best NAS by far so migrated 5 years ago. Now, I’m getting that Drobo feeling again! ???? What the heck Synology? ????????‍♂️
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      216. I have been looking at getting a NAS, and the Synology 2025 products have been in the mix. If Synology follow through on the hard drive lock in, the choise got quite a bit easier since I don’t need to consider them anymore…
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      217. Can’t wait for them to charge a subscription to use shr, raid5, etc… disk redundancy should be a premium feature. Also make upgrade to new major version a subscription. If you don’t buy subscription from first activation of the nas, then don’t allow to upgrade to a new major version, because these peasants could just buy a new box later on. That will ensure synology has enough funding to pay for supporting legacy(yuck!) hardware.
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      218. Ну це порушення антимонопольного закону в деяких країнах. А також це буде поштовхом для розвитку китайських брендів, а також опен сорс проектів OS для NAS систем. Коли корпорація нагло веде себе щодо користувачів, то вона може спіткати долю Nokia чи blekbery.
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      221. Some of these Nas makers are going to go bankrupt or get out of the business, so who knows how this will play out. They will need to raise prices on the NAS itself or do something to deal with added costs (at least in the US).
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      224. Oh wow I was about to jump on board the synology platform but I’ll avoid if they are doing this as they are not a drive manufacturer this is just greed, certified compatibles i have no real issue with buy locking out like Apple used to in the 1990s with ‘their’ hard disks for internal storage on macs both scsi and PATA – sorry its just greedy practice
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      229. If they manufactured the drives themselves, I might believe their claims, but they are using normal drives with custom firmware and any claims about “their” drives giving better reliability etc is just bollocks. Good thing there is not one brand less to choose from with NASes.
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      230. I was considering getting a NAS for personal use and Synology was on the list of potential candidates. But if that’s the way they are going to do things they are off the list.

        Once they lock-in everyone they can it’s only a matter of time before they start charging more and more as they improve less and less. The line must go up!
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      231. I’ve been a loyal Synology user for over 14 years, but any good relationship ends when one of the parties doesn’t know their limits! Goodbye Synology, hello Terramaster F6 424 Max with TrueNAS Scale
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      232. They don’t manufacture drives… They buy them from… Oh look .. Seagate. They pop a label on top and voila, Synology…. Maybe even get them made with their own FW specs.
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      233. LOL well say goodbye to synology… they cant keep up with hardware as it is with their network cards. 1gig nics on a nas now a days is crazy… now you have them controlling your storage no thanks!. They just gave other vendors a massive bonus.
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      235. Synology is segmenting, BSM for home and ActiveProtect for business are clear… Whether this is a move to sunset DSM or they plan to keep DSM for small business is unclear. @nascompares
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      236. This was a key reason a friend went QNAP instead of 8 bay Synology. Probably the one I own will be the last one. I wouldn’t have as much heartburn if the drives were not way overpriced. If they remove current capability on working systems, seems a legal response would be needed.
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      237. I’ve been looking into options for upgrading my 5-year old Synology NAS. If Synology’s memory upgrade pricing is any indicator, it appears my relationship with them has finally come to an end. The ease of use for their OS can’t outweigh this.
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      238. Synology just shooting themselves in the foot over and over and over again. I almost guarantee within the decade Synology with cease to exist as a home consumer company.
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      240. It’s like they are saying please don’t buy us. Synology is just getting worse and worse.
        I just don’t want to set up my family folders again with someone else and Synology is pushing so hard to do so.
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      241. I was waiting for the new models just to be lazy and not assembling a new computer with unraid to use mixed size disks that I have all around the house. If this confirms I guess I’ll have to go for the unraid router but nice cases for hotswapping disks are expensive and not very easy to work on them.
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      243. My DS1821+ will be the last synology I purchase. If I need expanded storage beyond that, it’ll be the Ubiquiti UNAS and I’ll keep using Active Backup for Business until the model is no longer supported. I will not pay twice the price for a rebadged drive with special firmware.
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      247. It seems to be a classic case of the tail wagging the dog. Is Synology not capable of making their hardware and software work equally as well with the majority of HDD’s ?
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      248. I guess that Synology don’t see the home/enthusiast market as a market they are interested in anymore. It is annoying but ok, will be a few more years before i change again so I have to look at available options at that time
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      249. synology 15 years behind others, poor hardware charges for adding your own! cameras, and this bullshit what a joke im glad I ditched them years ago, build your own is the way to go
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      251. What I find disgusting in the ‘Enterprise 3rd party’ is that Synology is leaning more, if not pushing their HA drives over the Seagate EXOS and IronWolf. Now I used to build larger storage arrays and the EXOS series was a few years old at the time, but these were the BEST DRIVES for a NAS with their MTBF almost double that of the IronWolf Series and much better than the HA series pushed by Synology. I just don’t get it, I don’t understand. I am willing to pay for a BETTER DRIVE because I need my data to be secure and available, which is why I have EXOS drives in my DS920+. But going forward, I need better bandwidth and I am seriously excited about the new DS925+ with 5 bays and 2.5gig and optional 10gig ports and the ability to have a HotSpare (finally in a 5bay)… but if I have to play THIS GAME of their Preferred Drive, I would rather build my own system and go with another NAS OS for my own reliability, security and flexibility. The only reason I went for the DS920+ was due to the amazing support and reliability for what I would refer to as a Pro-Sumer (upper level consumer) device that ticked all my boxes… barely. I have been very happy with my NAS for the past several years, except for the Network bottleneck, but that is being really picky as I work with very large image files. But Come ON Synology, you will find PROSUMERS LEAVING you if you Forces us to use only HA approved drives at your own self imposed tariff (10% higher) vs a quality NAS Enterprise drive of the EXOS series.
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      258. Most users knew this was coming. It’s a money grab and nothing else. Ugreen, Asustor, and others will benefit from this stupid move. They will loose a lot of people and businesses because of their stupidity. Not only NAS sales but C2 subscribers will fly away. Robocopy has always been my best friend. Corporate greed.
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      259. I wont be buying replacement Synology units for my DS214+, DS1019+, and DS1520+. And I wont recommend them anymore either. Bye Synology, it was fun while it lasted. Anyone have recommended brands I could migrate to?
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      260. Who has 2 thumbs and is never buying another Syology? This guy ????????

        Why would they even sell them without drives? Someone mentioned the possibility of forcing a drive refresh every few years. Maybe Synology could get into harddrives as a service with a monthly subscription.
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      267. I hope this decision will be the end of Synology. They had a good run, but your OS can’t overshadow the greed. I’ve tried Synology, TerraMaster, and settled on Asustor. Aside from a Seagate NAS HDD crapping out after a year, I’ve been very happy with my choice. I’m mixing Seagate Exos Mach2 and WD Purple Pro in my NAS.
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      269. Perfect timing. I was running a couple of Syno boxes, with 2tb of C2 storage for backup. Was midway playing with a F8 SSD Plus Terra master and MSP360, and Backblaze b2…. Time to dump these clowns.
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      273. Heres a question.
        If Synology is doing this, and at this point ‘saying’ that the change will not affect older plus systems … that means that they could change their mind and make it so if we have a drive failure in our older system, we may not be able to replace the drive outside of the Synology brand drives.
        Obviously this would be a new limitation baked into a DSM update. The question is, should we turn off all updates to our older systems?
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      274. Eh? This seems anti-competitive, work with HDD vendors to standardise (I thought they were mostly using established industry standards ala ACS-5) if you want support certain features/support then make good hard drives to convince customers to use them.
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      275. And.. I’m getting out of the Synology business. Time to build my own NAS. I’ve been watching your other videos, and I am ready to make the jump. Now I just need to decide on an OS (TrueNAS core vs others).
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      278. This decision saves me money as I was going to buy 925+ to replace my ancient DS415play. But I refuse to by a complely new set if drives to go with. Poor DS415 will be worked until it dies, it is only a backup for me.
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      279. I’ve felt for quite a while that Synology wants together ride of the non-enterprise user. It’s too bad. I’ve had several units over the years and I’ve bought a couple for my son’s families. I don’t know where this ends up, but if they go this way, I’ll go elsewhere where.
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      281. These tech companies get too big and forget their consumer. If true Synology saw Nintendo’s Switch 2 announcement of how to piss off own consumer and said: -hold my beer.
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      283. I’ve used unraid for well over a decade. Last year I bought a Synology to compliment my unraid, mainly to store all my important files and photos. I also bought a second Synology to use as an offsite backup and then bought a third as an archive for a duplicate copy of absolutely everything I own. Some of the changes that Synology has made since my purchase has made me really concerned and if this announcement is true then I’ll be having to investigate how I separate myself from Synology photos before I get too imbedded into the ecosystem. I’m out.
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      286. WD Red Pro’s are mandatory for bulk server storage in my cases. I have run them in a semi for 3+ years, with them making active read/writes while driving on the worst roads America has. Not one of them have ever failed or corrupted any data. Not using anything else, unless I go buying enterprise class hardware. (Can’t really afford bigger enterprise drives, or same size flash drives right now.
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      287. First they removed the codecs, then the disk support, then they will remove Synology Photos, they will say that few people use it, and then they will remove everything in general. and they will say just store the data there.
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      292. Well, I was already most likely going to go for a different brand for myself, but my parrents don’t have a lot of needs for their NAS so I was thinking getting an other Synology. This changes that completely. Because while the hardware doesn’t bother me that much, this type of bs is completely unacceptable. They can keep their overpriced drives and underpowered boxes.
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      296. I have gotten the 1821+ and other 8 bay Synology Units from past purchases, and I have the DVA3221 in my home as well. I do not believe Synology would mandate this, as it would be a deal breaker for me, and if i feel that way, then i have to assume others feel the same way as me. I would never buy another synology device for my personal use nor for my clients. And once synology forced me to get use to a different architecture, I would remain with the new company for decades until they forced me me off their system. So i just find it hard to believe Synology would just throw it’s users to another company, for no real reason. But if that is the hill synology wishes to die on, then so be it. I personally will never own another Synology again, as i am replacing the current hardware with non synology hardware as it fazes out. I just absolutely hate being tied to to any one company when it comes to hardware that can/does fail. and knowing I could not go to any store and replace a failed drive in an emergency is a deal breaker if that is taken away from me.
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      297. Migration of hard drives from older Synology NAS models to the new plus models will continue to be possible without restrictions. If that weren’t the case it would have been a deal-breaker.

        Third party drives that are certified by Synology will continue to be fully supported as well. Of course this is a reduced set compared to allowing any third-party drive, but I’m sure it saves them on certification as well as support costs.

        The restrictions on certain functionality “in the future” including pool creation and volume wide deduplication is definitely a bummer.

        That said, I don’t use cheap hard drives for mission critical data. I’ve seen comments on here that people are buying refurbished and renewed drives to put into their NAS. If that works for you, great, but if you’re going to risk your data on a refurbished drive then you don’t need the ironclad reliability and performance of Synology in the first place.

        Sure, maybe you’re running SHR2 and figure that you have two drive fault tolerance and maybe you can take the performance hit during a multi-day rebuild that will occur more often due to using those drives, but that’s not my profile or the profile of most of my clients.

        As long as Synology support some additional certified third-party drives so I can mix and match across a few vendors and not have all my drives come from the same production lot then I’m okay.

        Will this push me to recommending other NAS models for some of my lower end clients? Most definitely! But for the vast majority of my business clients I will still recommend Synology.

        I’ll be upgrading my own DS1512+ to a DS1525+. I will say this will be my last Synology NAS, but that’s because I expect I’ll probably be in my 70s by the time it dies. It may even outlast me. ????

        I fully respect people’s opinions on here and completely agree that some of the decisions Synology has made will lose them customers. It would have been nice if they could have found a middle ground. In the end, I suspect their home user prosumer market is fairly small compared to their enterprise market, but proportionally cost them more in support costs, so it’s a business decision.

        Happy for constructive comments but flames > /dev/null
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      299. I love my 1520+ and wanted to get another Synology. If this turns out true though, I will not purchase their brand anymore. I don’t want to put all my eggs in one basket.
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      300. Bluntly, They wouldn’t have been considered and I would have gone with another companies products. This is likely the end of consumer sales and a focus on business sales. Who will be more likely to pay more for the extra security/reliability.
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      302. Just wait until they announce that you will need to swap out your drives every 2 years to maintain data reliability. I’m sure someone at Synology is already thinking this.
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      303. I need to see the “third-party hard drives certified according to Synology’s specifications” list before I can react to this news at all. I have a suspicion that the new list is going to be the same Toshiba, WD and Seagate drives that are already on the “Synology Products Compatibility List” today.
        I would guess that this “lock” is Synology’s way of handling the entire CMR vs. SMR debacle of the last few years.
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      304. Thank you for the very useful information. I am considering to migrate from custom server with Truenas to Synology because of Electricity Cost. Look like I should wait and see about this harddisk vendor lock stuff.
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      307. Hmm. Just in time. I was looking to upgrade my Synology NAS which is getting a little old. I went ahead and bought a UGREEN NAS instead. I don’t have time for Synology’s bull. Ugreen has better hardware, the software is not in a great place but Ugreen lets you install TrueNAS if you really need something more mature and I’ve heard you can even get DSM running on it. The only thing I need from Ugreen in-terms of software is a built in way to back up to Backblaze B2. But looking around it was recommended I use Duplicati in a Docker.
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      308. I bought the 923+ during Cyber Monday last year. I felt like my 220+ was taking on too much. And the 2 drive thing was annoying me. I was thinking I should wait until this year but when the tariff talks started I decided to get it , especially since it was on sale. So glad I didn’t follow my secondary instinct to wait. After this , however, it’ll be a “build your own” scenario for me. Maybe ugreen. But they’ll probably get the Synology mentality after while and I’ll have to wait for another new-comer to try and take them out.
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      310. When we were considering a big upgrade to our main servers last year we went down the super micro/truenas route vs our initial thoughts of getting one of their larger racks because of this issue.
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      311. Right now on the US site. You can’t buy a Synology Enterprise series Hard Drive of any size. The Plus series is sold out over 12TB. The Enterprise drive is over $700 on amazon. How can Synology think going proprietary on Drives is a good idea. They can’t supply their customers enough drives. Fascinating move. I think they will have to walk this decision back in the next month or so.
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      313. I’m conflicted with Synology, for storage alone it’s ok.. Synology Drive is good (but not great), Active Backup is simply awesome and couldnt believe how amazing it really is till my laptop needed a bare metal rebuild.. saved me and was so much easier than I thought it would be.. Synology Photos could be amazing if they allowed the look and feel to be rebranded.. I would use it as my main portfolio, but I dont as it doesnt and seems to be another synology app that I simply wont use… I dont mind paying a premium for the unit, but I object to being forced to pay a premium on everything inside it.. I was thinking of adding a second Synology as a backup but primarily due to both the drive lock in and for some units the limited 3rd party compatibiility there are better options that I can simply use as a backup storage unit that doesnt need all the other bells and whistles. It feels like a company doing their own thing and not listening to their customers… a dangerous place to be.
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      314. I hope that’s not the case. I’m a massive WD fan and only trust them. I was waiting for the 25 series and if it’s the case I’m just going to wait for ubiquiti to release a better nas
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      315. Rubbing an 1821+ with 64gb Kingston ecc ram, 6 hgst hdds, 2 Kingston server 2.5″ SSDs, 2 Kingston m2 SSDs as read cache.
        Looks like it is the last Synology I will ever own. *uск you very much, Synology, I’ll sooner diy a Nas than buy your e-waste again.
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      316. As a user with a full DS223+ who just bought a couple seagate 28tb exos enterprise drives who is looking to update the NAS and making the 223 an offsite backup this news is forcing me to the UNAS pro more and more every day…
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      323. I have a DS918+, but I don’t use any of the Synology apps besides the backup one (just haven’t been arsed to switch that over to Duplicati) and I run everything with Docker Compose, and had to edit the damn .mustache files to change the port on their shitty built-in nginx to open ports 80 and 443. So I’d already decided not to buy Synology again, but this definitely cements it.

        I’ve now got a Minisforum MS-01 running Proxmox, and I am in the process of setting up a Docker VM on there and redoing all my Docker infrastructure on that simply due to how utterly ancient the Docker version on DSM is, and I ultimately plan to put in a HL15 when I get room for a rack, then the DS918+ will be repurposed to hold local backups.
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      324. 2 months ago I had to choose between Synology and QNAP and I’ve choosed QNAP.
        Now when all the leaks have pointing that Synology will be the “closed” system, I’m kinda
        happy that I have QNAP.
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      328. Synology continues to stab itself in the gut to the home prouser. It’s time to move on their outdated hardware and Apple-like mentality of trying to enforce their walled garden.
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      331. Loved my Synology DS918+ but this just confirms I’ll not be considering Synology moving forward. QNAP is looking likely where I’ll be going. Asustor support on my FS6706T network dropping has been pathetic (as with many others having this problem). Tech companies are really failing to provide high value and reliability these days.
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      332. Oooh! we need some clarification on this. I’ve a DS1817+ with a dead motherboard. I’ve been waiting for the DS1821+ to be replaced before buying a new NAS with the expectation that I can get my 8 * 8Tb drives into a new unit and be up and running again. It sound like this might not work and I’ll need to get a DS1821+ before they become unavailable?!
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      336. Was thinking of buying a new Synology, just lost my interest and gained a newfound hate.
        Synology keeps pushing old CPU’s, low specs machines, 2 or 4 GB of RAM in 2025 and now this. Won’t be looking at them again.
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      338. I wont be buying synology in future, i had 2 boxes 1 was DSM 7 and the other DSM 6… I moved 3 old drives from DSM 7 box to 6 and it had tagged them, even though wiped and formatted ! I had to do some faff and delete some files on the DSM 6 machine to re-use them!
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      340. This is something you’d expect from Broadcom. They need a root and branch change of management and product managers. What is wrong with these people. Old chips, poor hardware specs. They’re going the way of Blackberry.
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      341. AFTER sticking with severely underpowered obsolete hardware and giving dismal incremental updates that is boring as plain water for decades, removing functionalities like hardware transcoding, HEVC support, discontinuing apps that is one of the reasons they are charging a premium, now doubling down on locking customers to buy overpriced OEM labelled drive in their non-enterprise line up? They may as well just ditch the consumer/ prosumer segment to reduce costs lol.
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      343. Well if I was any of the other NAS manufacturers this would be the best news possible. What other manufacture will willingly give up market share for the fat cost of nothing.
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      346. for me, one major inconvenience is uncertainty when migrating existing pool from older Synology (with third-party HDDs) onto new Synology NAS,
        looks like I will really have to start exploring Proxmox virtualized xpenology in case any of my old NASes dies? :/
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      347. This is how companies die – failure to innovate (or at least keep up with competition) and also piss off your loyal customers. Welp, nice knowing you Synology, your software was great but your hardware was underpowered and overpriced. Not gonna miss ya.
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      348. Further proof that Synology is completely out of touch with its target market.

        I’d been holding out for an upgrade and was eyeing the 1825+, but with this news I’m absolutely taking my business elsewhere. With 45Drives, Minisforum, Ugreen, and numerous others now entering the market, I will gladly give up the convenience of Drive and Synology’s admittedly solid backup solutions.

        I’m guessing there’ll be numerous others who are in my shoes; I’m also guessing Synology won’t care, because they’re fully committed to their enterprise business, which means taking a hit on unit sales to sell more drives to normal consumers isn’t going to matter too much. They are shifting margin while reducing support resources.

        So while I get the decision from a business perspective, I will no longer support this company with my wallet.
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      352. I’m not paying their hard drive tax. As it is I buy used and renew drives to save a ton of money since I’m buying 26tb drives now. I currently have six Synology units in use. Screw this noise.
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      356. I was a huge Synology fanboy. Time now to move on. There are too many decent alternatives built on better hardware with more-than-adequate software to stick with a brand where my cost for storage is double what I can find on the wider market. Not time to predict the death of the brand, but this will continue to hack away at sales and, if their enterprise hardware push doesn’t pan out over the next few years, Synology’s revenues are going to shrink. Best to the gulls, Robbie.
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      362. Furthermore, migrating hard drives from existing Synology NAS to a new Plus model will continue to be possible without restrictions. <- If thats true, at least the initial HDD would have no restrictions...
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      363. Bold strategy, let’s see how it works out for ’em. It will likely turn out to be a great idea, taking something as open source and matured as hard drives, and forcing it into your own overpriced ecosystem. Great. Idea.
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      364. I reckon Qnap have infiltrated an agent on to the Synology board and are killing them from the inside! I really can’t think of any other explanation for their quite baffling decisions over the last 18 months or so! ????
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      367. If they fully lock people into Synology drives they should do what video game console companies have done in the past and reflect that in the price.

        Personally, I have the drives already so I’ll buy elsewhere if that’s the case.
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      368. I was planning on moving away from Synology for home use as the hardware is under powered for some use cases I’d like. I will keep my 918+ till it dies for active backup and surveillance station when I upgrade to something else.
        This would be a very poor move on their part. Lower powered hardware coupled with locked in drives, this will shoot themselves in the foot.
        I do love DSM, but this would be enough for me to go full truenas.
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      371. Time to look at the competition now. I’m guessing ugreen but more research is needed. Having “the best software” isn’t going to prevent people leaving this time round.
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      372. It’s a peculiar way to go forward, especially given that they’re not making any big changes to the platform itself (at least from what I can tell in the spec sheet).

        For the security claim, the only feature that would be interesting is if they were introducing some kind of ransomware protection at the drive level, requiring specialised firmware on the drives. That would set Synology apart from the competition in this market segment.

        It would be interesting to know who will be manufacturing the drives for Synology.
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      373. I already have a ugreen dxp4800 plus it’s great and is much better spec and cheaper than my 923+, I was considering upgrading my 923+ to a 25 series because 2 cores just isn’t enough but if Synology do this then I will be buying another ugreen nas
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      375. Time for someone to write a guide on how to move/mount a 8x20TB raid6 array (synology uses mdraid), on a Linux computer or a Ugreen nas. To CONTINUE using the volume there instead. It’s not like ppl going to buy 8 new drives to copy any data. ????
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      381. I’d originally been waiting for the 925+ but picked up a 923+ last month, arriving the day before the ‘original’ leak, which was very annoying! I’d wanted the 2.5gbe but aside from that the 923 was fine for my purposes and it did cross my mind there may be further hardware lock ins announced with the new systems.

        So glad I stuck with the 923+…. And I did upgrade the network card as I wondered if they would become scarce as they weren’t being used in the new model.

        This new system should last as long as I’ll need it for work. After I retire I may be more open to the DIY market for tinkering but in reality the competitor software in the next 5+ years ought to at least have caught up with DSM.
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      382. Apple kind of mentality. Make everything incompatible with other brands, put limitations on purpose and make sure is not user upgradeable.

        I think Apple users going to love the new Synology ???? they are used to this kind of abuse ????

        #ChillGuysJustKidding kind of ????
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      383. At this point I think everyone should stop using Synology devices and making videos about them. The only discussion regarding Sunology is to never use them , if this info is true
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      386. I have never seen anyone strangling himself and still be happy like Synology does, @NASCompress is putting it mildly when he says “”little bit more expensive”…. I just check the pricing for the 20 TB drives in my country and its whopping OVER TWO TIMES more expensive than Ultrastar 20TB
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      387. Wanted to purchase a new 8 Bay Synology NAS to add to my current 8 bay NAS (Also Synology) , However seeing their stats for the upcoming hardware and the rumours of what you are saying, I have just bought the the UGREEN DXP8800 Plus 8-Bay Desktop NAS, added NVMEs and extra memory – very happy with my choice.
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      390. If UGREEN brings out a future 5 bay expansion unit for their NAS units, I’d switch over when it’s time to upgrade my old DS1019+
        Better hardware already, Software I’m not too bothered about I don’t really need all the features of DSM, Only use it for backups, transferring files from one pc to another on local home network and then also would use it for Plex to stream my media onto tv.
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      392. You are naïve or pretend to be, is ALL about profit, and this obvious will only going to hurt them on the long run. In fact I think theirs best days as company already passed.
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      393. The way this has floated into view smacks strongly of Synology trying to quantify the level of backlash before jumping in with both feet. I can’t think of a direction to go that would call into question using Synology professionally more than this one would.
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      396. Just saw the posted update. What’s the betting Synology will roll out this policy to non-plus models in time, citing all the same blurb reasons they have just done.
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      401. The moment Synology announced their own drives, the writing was on the wall. They touted the benefits of upgrading HDD firmware on the fly (something very few people ever do with HDD’s in my experience). There had to be another key reason to introduce their own range of drives, and here it is.

        Of course, this isn’t a surprise to me. I purchased a DS223 about a year back, my second NAS from Synology, and threw in a pair of Crucial MX500’s. Skipped the usual nag warning about not being recommended drives, and happily installed DSM. however, an inexplicable instability began to show itself, only on a restart, where one or the other drives failed to be recognised. This often resulted in a total re-creation of the volume/pool and a reload of data. Months would go by without an issue, then a reboot was required and the same would occur again.

        Finally, in frustration I purchased a Synology HAT3300 HDD after checking to see that the drive compatibility list for this newer NAS only now showed Synology HDD/SSD’s as being compatible.

        Removed the MX500’s, installed the HAT3300 and all has been flawless since, multiple reboots and all.

        The moral of this story is that it’s clear to me that Synology have deliberately ensured incompatibility by not playing nice with non Synology drives. I do not believe it’s the fact I was using SSD’s. Of course,I could be wrong here, which begs the question, why was there issues with SSD’s.

        Anyway, the course Synology has taken was inevitable and, for me at least, will ensure I look elsewhere for my next NAS. It feels as if Synology has lost touch with the mainstream consumer, gotten too big for their boots and done so in a market that now sees serious challenges coming at them.

        Good luck with this attitude Synology, we warned you.
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      404. If TRUE: they ended home & small office system users going forward!
        The plus for users is Synology assumes full responsibility for any & all failures!
        There will be No One Else to Blame.
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      405. UPDATE #2 – There is now an official Synology detail on this:
        ” *Synology is increasingly relying on its own ecosystem for upcoming Plus models – Following the success of the High-Performance series, the company is now increasingly relying on Synology’s own storage media for the Plus series models, which will be released starting in 2025. Users will thus benefit from higher performance, increased reliability, and more efficient support.  “With our proprietary hard drive solution, we have already seen significant benefits for our customers in a variety of deployment scenarios,” said Chad Chiang, Managing Director of Synology GmbH and Synology UK. “By expanding our integrated ecosystem to the Plus series, we aim to provide all users—from home users to small businesses—with the highest levels of security and performance, while also offering significantly more efficient support.”  For users, this means that starting with the Plus series models released in 2025, only Synology’s own hard drives and third-party hard drives certified according to Synology’s specifications will be compatible and offer the full range of functions and support.

        There will be no changes for Plus models released up to and including 2024 (excluding the XS Plus series and rack models). Furthermore, migrating hard drives from existing Synology NAS to a new Plus model will continue to be possible without restrictions.  The use of compatible and unlisted hard drives will be subject to certain restrictions in the future, such as pool creation and support for issues and failures caused by the use of incompatible storage media. Volume-wide deduplication, lifespan analysis, and automatic hard drive firmware updates will only be available for Synology hard drives in the future.  Tight integration of Synology NAS systems and hard drives reduces compatibility issues and increases system reliability and performance. At the same time, firmware updates and security patches can be deployed more efficiently, ensuring a high level of data security and more efficient support for Synology customers.* ” – Germany, Düsseldorf – April 16, 2025
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      406. I just put a new 8tb Ironwolf into a 420+ and even though the drive database is up to date, its telling me that the drive is not supported. If suggestion for the 25 series is true, they will lose countless sales, and they are trying their best to persuade home users to never buy any more Synology devices, was looking for a couple of 925+/1525+ but no chance now . . .
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      408. Must be some clever programmer who could code to bypass these locked drives, not bothered myself as I will not be buying a synology unit now ,will just carry on using what I have for the last 5 years
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      409. Synology is gonna dissapear like Drobo eventually. They are making the same mistake as VMware who are now reverting back the free offering after most people moved to other solutions like Proxmox.
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      413. Shame. My 1520+ has been great but when I do upgrade, Synology will be off the table. More power to them, but that’s the end of the pro-sumer/home user market for them.
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      414. Wow. I wasn’t too bothered about things a lot of other people complain about with Synology, and was looking forward to getting a DS1825, but if this is true it’s the final straw for me.
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      416. If they fully block using uncertified drives, its like shooting themselves in the foot. Ugreen and others are trying to penetrate the market the only buying point (for me at least) is the maturity of DSM. They can always just turn down any support questions or request for devices using non-certified drives but completely not allowing it is just bollocks.
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      417. time for “how to desynolify your nas” …? If this isn’t a sign to vote with your wallet, than I don’t know what is. First they remove features, now they force you to exclusively their hardware, what’s next?
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      418. В мене he 4kn hitachi 4x10Tb. Працюють добре. Брав вживані 4 роки в дата-центрі Амазону відпрацювали бо бачив фото сервера з якого вони. Такі Амазон використовує
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      420. I have a DS918+, I see nothing here that entices me into upgrading.

        This really needed to be a N150 based system with options for the N350. AMD make excellent processors and I have a Ryzen in my rig but those Intel options are better for this use case.
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      422. USA Retail doesnt display prices including Taxes because every state has a different tax amount, so retailers calculate this based on the shipping address during checkout.
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      424. It’s hilarious that the 925 is aimed at people like me who have held onto their superior 918+. Especially when I finally woke up and realised how garbage Synology has become with their hardware and also abandoning their software. So now both Synology hardware and software are widely known to be trash, I’ve done what everyone else has done and moved onto either the superior Ugreen or DiY Unraid. Synology is officially dead.
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      427. Can’t be bothered to be honest. The best NAS are the one you build from scratch, using Debian and configuring each and every service. That gives you all the control, the performance and the quality you need from a NAS
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      428. IMO the Synology software is overrated as well. I bought a DS2012j in 2013 and their QuickConnect apps never worked (2,5 out of 5 in the appstore). It was painfully slow even on purchase and then I couldn’t use QuickConnect because of a bug they’ve never fixed. Now you can at least find a workaround in the forum, so finally I got a QC-number instead of using DynDNS, but still no connection via app and it seems, the QC-method is slowing down the speed even more into an unusable state. But even without and directly connected to my Mac, it’s so slow, that the net-drive always disappears when there is traffic and the HDD never sleeps when this thing isn’t completely shut down.
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      429. Still happily using my 918+, jacked with max ram and 2x nvme cache drives.
        Besides stuck with 1GbE network connection … which is mostly fine as this is just a home file server,
        dont run plex, dont do video edit on it or anything draining. Everything we do runs instantly.

        The question is if 2.5 GbE is enough to warrant an upgrade. In my case … no … not enough.

        Sure, maybe some slightly quicker ops with the quicker CPU and increased ram capacity and speed … but its not all that large.
        This is just not exciting.
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      430. Bummer. I guess I’ll need to find software replacements for Synology Drive and Active Backup that I can run on a minisforum box. My 1019+ still works, but while I can run a 5GbE adapter over USB, it’s horribly handicapped by the Celeron CPU.
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      431. DSM will only go so far …at this point I’d say even with its limitations Unifi NAs is a better buy …. the Chinese will dominate …. Ugreen etc …. Again I lament Asustors ridiculous pricing on the Lockerstor Gen 3 …if they had of released that at the Gen 2 prices they would dominate …. They have no market share and at this point they need to buy it. Qnap are weird and do nothing interesting …it is really only Ugreen that is a forward growing competitor ….
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      437. I’ll be replacing my DS918+ with a UGREEN DXP4800 Plus (or DXP6800 Pro) device running unRAID. My DS918+ acts as my Plex server so I need the H/W transcode support. My mate said he’ll be placing his DS820+ with a comparable UGREEN NAS as well. I feel Synology will lose alot of upgraders to UGREEN by not using a CPU with integrated graphics support.
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      446. I need some help on choosing a NAS. Im stuck between Ugreen & Synology for home use for all my media, pictures, etc. After extensive research, im hearing that synology is no longer the best choice due to lack of software support. Who can guide me? Ugreen seems to be a great option but lately, ive been seeing a whole bunch on Ugreen on YouTube but they’re all sponsored. Any suggestions?
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      456. Any NAS without a CPU iGPU should never be considered for general home users. I don’t understand why Synology switched over to AMD without iGPUs to power their consumer line.

        I’ve been super happy with the UGreen DXP4800 Plus and have recommended it to friends and family.
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      457. Many thanks for the info, appreciate the update, I am looking for 2 new DS nas but essentially even more disappointing specs and another downgrade. What is synology’s issue with network bandwidth and usb support ????
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      459. They removed the 10Gbe and removed support for 3rd part 10Gbe probably because the chinese from aliexpress sold a cheaper product in more quantity than they did with they’re one
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      463. Considering how long these products last alongside the constantly updated DSM, I’m not surprised they are pushing higher prosumer users to the enterprise models. I’m not that tech savvy, or price sensitive and happy to trade 10GbE for 2.5 to stay with DSM.
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      467. In the target buyer and I will not be purchasing. Even w/ out hard drive limitations I see no reason to buy. No iGPU is an immediate do not buy. Synology has abandoned the consumer market to chase enterprise customers. They need to pull out entirely at this point.
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      470. No IGP so I have zero interest in it. It’s an essential component for these machines with weak CPUs. I can run a Plex server and Unmanic on virtually any CPU, as long as it has an IGP. Otherwise, nope, I can’t be spending over a year software transcoding my archive. They’ve practically admitted it themselves by pulling transcoding from their Surveillance Station software and shifting the load to the cameras to make up for their weak NAS boxes.
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      474. I’m increasingly convincing myself (probably erroneously so) that the 25+ range is a stop gap, low investment, faux-“upgrade” range for the purpose of “let’s get rid of those old components”, and that in 1.5 – 2 years tops, they will roll out a “AI CPU” NAS range, and probably using a new chassis design as well. The appearance of the the AI Console in beta does nothing to dissuade me on this.
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      476. I only use a nas for media, Synology software seems overly complicated. Would I be better off with ugreen? Or qnap? Mine doesn’t have transcoding nor does plex work, after instal just tells me I don’t own the server and no way to fix it.
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      477. The reason that the US Amazon web site does not include tax is because there is no US federal sales tax. There are sales taxes in most (all ? ) states but they are not all the same. In Canada, we do have a federal sales tax and most provinces have a provincial sales tax which vary in amount and in some cases they are blended with the federal tax. Confused yet ?
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