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 ...

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.

The new third-party hard drive compatibility restrictions finally pushed me away from using Synology again. The TLDR for that situation is that Synology will only support Synology ...

Synology is bringing back third-party drive support with DSM 7.3, but it might be too late. The competition has pulled much further ahead.

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.

Cloning a hard drive on a Mac is a different process. If you have a newer MacBook or iMac, you can't swap out the hard disk ...

Remote desktop apps like AnyDesk and TeamViewer are lifesavers when you need full control over your NAS, no matter where you are. It rarely happens, but there are times when I need to tweak advanced ...