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 ...

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 on it. The Apple Silicon-based Macs have the storage soldered in, so there'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 has backed down from only allowing certified hard drives that it conveniently sells in its 2025 network attached storage device line — but the new 7.3 DSM update is far from a complete ...

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

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 introduced a controversial policy with its 2025 DiskStation models where it prevented the use of WD and Seagate HDDs. Thankfully, it's walking back those claims, and you can use any hard ...

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

Following intense customer backlash and plummeting sales, Synology is reversing a controversial policy that restricted third-party hard drives in its 2025 NAS models. The change is effective with the ...