All things relating to Synology, a Taiwanese maker of network-attached storage (NAS) servers and home Wi-Fi routers.
Today, Synology officially made its new BeeCamera feature available on its BeeStation Plus network-attached storage (NAS) server via a free upgrade to the latest BeeStation OS (version 1.5-65918). (The feature was in beta for a couple of months, and the company quietly made this release available on March 20 for a manual …
If you have one of those BeeDrives and BeeStations as your simple backup solution, here’s some good news: It’s going to get a bit more sophisticated. Indeed, Synology today announced two additional features, including improved AI-powered Deep Search and online backup. Let’s find out more. Synology BeeDrive: Now with Deep …
The Synology DiskStation DS925+ network-attached storage (NAS) server, first available in the US on June 4, 2025, is more than just an intended incremental upgrade to the previous DS923+. It has undergone major changes in a matter of months, with the latest and most significant being Synology’s DSM 7.3 release. …
Today, October 7, 2025, Synology announces the availability of the latest incremental release of its DiskStation Manager (DSM) operating system, DSM 7.3, for its network-attached storage (NAS) servers. This update adds security fixes and some notable improvements, but you’ll likely be more interested in what it removes. Indeed. DSM 7.3 …
The DiskStation DS225+, available in the US market on July 23, 2025, is Synology’s 2025 continuation of its 2-bay Plus series. I found this release somewhat unexpected, given that the DS224+ came out in 2024. Generally, Synology refreshes its Plus servers only when a model is at least two years …
Years ago, somebody asked me about my most important piece of tech and was surprised when I said it was my NAS server—the Synology DS410, to be specific—and not the iPhone I was holding. That was true then. And it’s even more so now. In fact, with the benefits of …
The Synology DiskStation DS1525+ network-attached storage (NAS) server, first available in the US on June 25 is arguably the best among Synology’s new and controversial 2025 releases. Here’s the bottom line: The contentious storage requirement aside, the DS1525+ is an excellent NAS server to buy today, worth its $799.99 retail …
Synology today officially releases its two additional DiskStation NAS servers in its Plus family, the DS1825+ and DS725+. Judging from their hardware specs, while the former can pass for a minor four-year upgrade to the previous DS1821+, the latter, like the recently available DS925+, is an outright downgrade compared to the …
Together with the 2025 NAS models, starting with the DiskStation DS925+, Synology has an unpleasant surprise for its fans: The NAS maker now implements a strict hardware compatibility (HCL) policy, which, for the time being, is basically a storage lock-in approach. To put it bluntly, apart from the server, you …
Today, Synology announced the availability of its second NAS server for 2025, the DiskStation DS425+, for the US market. It’s a four-bay server, similar to the DS925+ that was released earlier this month, but with lower hardware specifications and capabilities. Synology DS425+: A straightforward 4-bay NAS server The first thing …
