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 ...

Most NAS products can create drive pools with any 2.5 or 3.5-inch internal drives, and that was true for all consumer Synology products released before 2025. However, the 2025 models of Synology’s ...

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 ...

If you're looking to sync your folders and files to a cloud storage account, you'll find plenty of options in Linux.

You might think Linux is just an alternative to Windows, but there are lots of operating systems based on it in places where you wouldn't expect.

USB drives can be repurposed for a wide range of creative, practical, and surprising tasks, many of them simple enough for anyone to try.