Thursday, April 24th 2025
Synology Announces DiskStation DS925+ and DX525 Expansion Unit
Synology today launched DiskStation DS925+ for professionals and businesses seeking high performance and reliable data management.
"The 4-bay Plus Series models inherited over one million installations and have always been among our most widely-adopted products." said Jeffrey Huang, product manager of Synology. "Not only are they favored by professionals but also deployed by enterprises in remote and branch environments as edge servers. For this reason, we've designed the DS925+ to deliver business-grade performance and reliability."
Efficient and Scalable Storage in a Compact Form
The DS925+ is engineered to tackle demanding workloads. Equipped with dual 2.5GbE ports and two M.2 slots for creating all-flash storage pool or cache, the DS925+ delivers substantial performance gains with preconfigured settings compared to its predecessor—including 149% faster SMB downloads, 150% faster uploads, 131% faster reads, and 150% faster writes.
In addition to its performance, the new 4-bay model also provides high capacity and scalability. When paired with the new DX525 expansion unit, it supports up to 9 drive bays and offers up to 180 TB of raw capacity, allowing users to expand as needed—making it ideal for growing data demands.
The DS925+ is engineered as a full-featured system to deliver consistent performance and reliability with Synology hard drives. It follows a carefully curated drive compatibility framework, backed by over 7,000 hours of rigorous testing. To ensure optimal integration and long-term dependability, DSM on the DS925+ requires compatible hard drives for installation.
Versatile Features for Business Workloads
Powered by Synology's DiskStation Manager (DSM), the DS925+ offers versatile features to meet diverse business data management needs.
The DS925+ and DX525 expansion unit will be available starting April 23rd, 2025, through Synology's network of partners and resellers in the MENA region. For more information, please see the DS925+ and DX525 product pages.
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Synology (Middle East)
"The 4-bay Plus Series models inherited over one million installations and have always been among our most widely-adopted products." said Jeffrey Huang, product manager of Synology. "Not only are they favored by professionals but also deployed by enterprises in remote and branch environments as edge servers. For this reason, we've designed the DS925+ to deliver business-grade performance and reliability."
The DS925+ is engineered to tackle demanding workloads. Equipped with dual 2.5GbE ports and two M.2 slots for creating all-flash storage pool or cache, the DS925+ delivers substantial performance gains with preconfigured settings compared to its predecessor—including 149% faster SMB downloads, 150% faster uploads, 131% faster reads, and 150% faster writes.
In addition to its performance, the new 4-bay model also provides high capacity and scalability. When paired with the new DX525 expansion unit, it supports up to 9 drive bays and offers up to 180 TB of raw capacity, allowing users to expand as needed—making it ideal for growing data demands.
The DS925+ is engineered as a full-featured system to deliver consistent performance and reliability with Synology hard drives. It follows a carefully curated drive compatibility framework, backed by over 7,000 hours of rigorous testing. To ensure optimal integration and long-term dependability, DSM on the DS925+ requires compatible hard drives for installation.
Powered by Synology's DiskStation Manager (DSM), the DS925+ offers versatile features to meet diverse business data management needs.
- Synology Drive transforms the system into a private cloud, enabling cross-platform access and site-to-site syncing for distributed teams.
- Active Backup Suite provides comprehensive protection for Windows, Linux, and macOS devices, virtual machines, and cloud accounts, with flexible off-site backup options.
- Surveillance Station delivers scalable video management and offers real-time intelligent analytics to safeguard physical assets.
The DS925+ and DX525 expansion unit will be available starting April 23rd, 2025, through Synology's network of partners and resellers in the MENA region. For more information, please see the DS925+ and DX525 product pages.
10 Comments on Synology Announces DiskStation DS925+ and DX525 Expansion Unit
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Now, they've screwed over their SMB and consumer models too.
Sorry, Synology - this is the final nail in your greedy bastard coffin - right alongside the lack of 2.5Gbe in any of your consumer models. NASCompares interviewed a Synology rep and confirmed that the Synology HAT SATA series are based on the N300, so you're paying well over double the price in disks, which is the vast bulk of the cost of any NAS these days.
I prefer Synology DSM to QNAP's QuTS variants, but we're talking 10-20,0000 extra money for a Synology rackmount NAS now, and that stupid markup has been passed over to consumers as well. Thankfully Synology don't operate in a vacuum and I suspect people will start voting with their wallets.
To add insult to injury, I would never touch a tower NAS like the 925+ or recommend one for small businesses after hearing far too many horror stories of abysmal customer support and long delays recovering data from cheap failing hardware. You don't need much Google-fu to find such vlogs, blogs, articles, forum threads of people swearing off Synology after a godawful experience that impacted their business or income.
They softened it up a bit in a later release of DSM and permitted you to use third party drives from Seagage/WD/Toshiba etc but you lose some monitoring and management functionality and your dashboard is always full of yellow warning triangles that will never go away, which is a really shitty "f*ck you" move by Synology.
If your DSM dashboard is always flooded with warning notifications, you're going to ignore warning notifications, which defeats the purpose of having them in the first place. It's just aggressively anti-user spam to punish you for not buying their insanely overpriced drives with all that juicy markup that goes straight to their pockets.
The value and j series products aren't locked in, yet...
So glad I built my own NAS a few years ago, as I can have whatever speed Ethernet I want and whatever drives I want.
Either way it will be interesting to see what will happen to Synology in the long run. Clearly, and I don't really see any other reason than that, they want to get rid of consumer level customers and focus all the way on corporate solutions. Which only makes sense if you believe that the consumer NAS segment is small and/or decreasing. Which again does not math since I see more NAS products/manufacturers popping up all over the place. Maybe that's it? They don't like the competition in that segment and try to fortify/maximize their position in the corp segment? Hmmmm...