Following intense customer backlash and poor sales, Synology is reversing its unpopular third-party HDD restriction policy ...
ZDNET's key takeaways Synology will again allow third-party drives in its NAS boxes.Users will need to upgrade to DSM 7.3 to ...
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 ...
As of DSM 7.3, Synology no longer mandates validated drives in 2025 DiskStation Plus, Value, and J-series devices.