Acquire a suitable internet connection. Your home internet is rarely enough for self-hosting. You can easily exceed bandwidth ...

The TerraMaster F2-245 2-bay NAS box has all the media-streaming features you could ask for; plus, security cam support and ...

Back in April, the company announced that it would block all but its own Synology-branded HDDs and SSDs in its 2025 line of DiskStation Plus models, preventing owners from using excellent drives such ...

Earlier this year, Synology announced a major change affecting how customers could populate the company's NAS devices with external HDDs. The Taiwanese corporation planned to restrict ...

Running Pi-hole alongside services like Nextcloud or Jellyfin sounds easy to manage, easy to back up, and perfectly ...

The move was not popular, and half a year later Synology is reversing course. The company has released an updated version of the Linux-based operating system that powers its NAS hardware and while the ...

Synology DSM 7.3 brings third-party hard drive support to 2025 NAS models. Discover how this update changes storage flexibility forever.

As of DSM 7.3, Synology no longer mandates validated drives in 2025 DiskStation Plus, Value, and J-series devices.

Synology has backed down from only allowing certified hard drives that it conveniently sells in its 2025 network attached ...

As many SMBs and enterprises are escaping VMware or Hyper-V environments in to Open source virtual environments such as ...

The convenient cross-platform compatibility is one of the reasons I keep going back to SMB in my home lab. Theoretically, the SMB multichannel feature enables SMB servers and clients to leverage ...

Instead of designing an Access Point from scratch, TP-Link has taken its popular EAP772 design and repackaged it for living ...