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 ...

After months of silence and community frustration, Synology has finally decided to loosen the grip it tightened on its rather loyal following of NAS users. And I, for one, couldn’t be happier.

Synology, maker of network-attached storage (NAS) devices, will seemingly remove advanced features from its Plus devices that are not using hard drives provided by, or certified by, Synology itself, ...

If you were considering the purchase of a Synology NAS but were leery of the unreasonably high cost of populating it with special Synology-branded hard disk drives, you can breathe a little easier ...