What if the hard drive you’ve been relying on for years suddenly became incompatible with your Synology system, or, conversely, what if a long-awaited update finally allowed you to use drives from ...

Synology has announced a policy to restrict the use of HDDs (hard disk drives) other than those manufactured by Synology or certified by Synology in the 'Plus Series' NAS models released after 2025.

Bad news for prospective Synology NAS buyers -- the company is now making its drives de facto mandatory for Plus-series NAS boxes launched in 2025 and onwards. Citing compatibility issues, drive ...

Synology is pushing for consumers to buy its own brand of hard drives for its newest NAS appliances, with only certified drives getting the full suite of software support. The cost of a ...

Synology DSM partitions a 2tb drive as 2.38g for the OS 2.00gb for the swap file and an 127mb "unallocated" before user created partitions and 99mb "unallocated" after. I think the space for the OS ...

To test this "slow" theory, I downloaded an ISO from my NAS to my computer's desktop. The sustained transfer rate was shown in the download window as 3.4 MB/s. According to the performance chart ...

Synology has outed its latest NAS, and the DiskStation DS1511+ certainly doesn't skimp on storage space. The five-bay box can store up to 15TB alone, but will also link up with Synology's DX510 ...