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Although Synology already announced its first plus series NAS in its 2025 range a month ago with the DS925+ and its accompanying expansion unit, the company had no less than six new devices on display at Computex. We also talked at length with the company and got an explanation as to why the company decided to move to supporting its own brand drives only and it turns out the situation isn't quite what Synology's press release made it seem like, but more on that after we go over the new devices.
The new range starts with the DS225+ and the DS425+, where the DS225+ is the new base model of the plus series. Both models are built around an Intel Celeron J4125—a chip that launched at the end of 2019—which is paired with 2 GB of DDR4 which can be expanded to 6 GB in total. Both models come with one 2.5 Gbps and one 1 Gbps Ethernet port, two 5 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports and two or four drive bays. The DS425+ also gets a pair of M.2 2280 NVMe SSD slots, but unless the CPU information provided is wrong, these will only be PCIe 2.0 and will most likely not sport more than one or two lanes.
Next up is the DS725+ which is built around an AMD Ryzen R1600 SoC which comes with 4 GB of ECC DDR4 memory as standard and it can be upgraded to 32 GB. Synology has equipped the DS725+ with a pair of M.2 2280 slots as well, but this time they're PCIe 3.0 at least and possibly even four lanes wide. There's also what Synology calls an expansion port here, which is a USB Type-C port which most likely supports 10 Gbps data transfers, but Synology doesn't mention the actual transfer speeds anywhere in the specs.
Next up we have the DS1525+ and DS1825+ which are five and eight bay versions of largely the same hardware. Both models are based on the same AMD Ryzen V1500B SoC as the DS925+, but ships with 8 GB of ECC DDR4 memory instead of 4 GB for the DS925+. Once again the PCIe interface is of the 3.0 variety and both models have a pair of M.2 slots for NVMe SSDs. The two Ethernet ports are both 2.5 Gbps and the DS1525+ has what Synology calls a network upgrade slot, whereas the DS1825+ has a PCIe 3.0 x4 PCIe expansion slot. Both models have a pair of USB Type-C expansion ports and the DS1525+ gets two USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, whereas the DS1825+ gets three.
The last new model is the FS200T which is a niche product, once again based on the aging Celeron J4126, although paired with 4 GB of DDR4, upgradable to 8 GB. It has six 2.5 SATA drive bays and it's intended to be used with SATA SSDs. Around the back is one 2.5 Gbps and one 1 Gbps Ethernet port, as well as two USB Type-A 3.2 Gen 1 5 Gbps ports. Apart from the DS225+ and the FS200T, you should be able to find all the new products on Synology's website now.
As for the debacle with the plus models only being certified for use with Synology branded drives, it appears that the company communicated its plans very poorly and there's no excuse for the press release that was put out. Synology will allow other drives to be used with its plus range of NAS appliances, but it's under the condition that the likes of Seagate, Toshiba and WD validate their drives with the specific model in accordance with Synology's validation program. There are quite some gotchas with this, as for starters, it's unclear if these companies will agree to this and if they do, it might only be for a few limited drives, like their NAS specific products.
As it was explained to us, Synology got tired of trying to validate third party drives, as the hard drive makers change things without notifying Synology about changes to their drives and the company felt that they were spending too many resources on validating drives for the hard drive manufacturers. Not doing so is a big gamble from Synology's side, but clearly also a push to try and sell bundles to their customers. From our understanding, the feedback has been good from their business customers, but Synology is aware of the feedback from its consumer customers and the company is listening to feedback, but the question is if that will be enough to retain many of their consumer customers.
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The new range starts with the DS225+ and the DS425+, where the DS225+ is the new base model of the plus series. Both models are built around an Intel Celeron J4125—a chip that launched at the end of 2019—which is paired with 2 GB of DDR4 which can be expanded to 6 GB in total. Both models come with one 2.5 Gbps and one 1 Gbps Ethernet port, two 5 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports and two or four drive bays. The DS425+ also gets a pair of M.2 2280 NVMe SSD slots, but unless the CPU information provided is wrong, these will only be PCIe 2.0 and will most likely not sport more than one or two lanes.
Next up is the DS725+ which is built around an AMD Ryzen R1600 SoC which comes with 4 GB of ECC DDR4 memory as standard and it can be upgraded to 32 GB. Synology has equipped the DS725+ with a pair of M.2 2280 slots as well, but this time they're PCIe 3.0 at least and possibly even four lanes wide. There's also what Synology calls an expansion port here, which is a USB Type-C port which most likely supports 10 Gbps data transfers, but Synology doesn't mention the actual transfer speeds anywhere in the specs.
Next up we have the DS1525+ and DS1825+ which are five and eight bay versions of largely the same hardware. Both models are based on the same AMD Ryzen V1500B SoC as the DS925+, but ships with 8 GB of ECC DDR4 memory instead of 4 GB for the DS925+. Once again the PCIe interface is of the 3.0 variety and both models have a pair of M.2 slots for NVMe SSDs. The two Ethernet ports are both 2.5 Gbps and the DS1525+ has what Synology calls a network upgrade slot, whereas the DS1825+ has a PCIe 3.0 x4 PCIe expansion slot. Both models have a pair of USB Type-C expansion ports and the DS1525+ gets two USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, whereas the DS1825+ gets three.
The last new model is the FS200T which is a niche product, once again based on the aging Celeron J4126, although paired with 4 GB of DDR4, upgradable to 8 GB. It has six 2.5 SATA drive bays and it's intended to be used with SATA SSDs. Around the back is one 2.5 Gbps and one 1 Gbps Ethernet port, as well as two USB Type-A 3.2 Gen 1 5 Gbps ports. Apart from the DS225+ and the FS200T, you should be able to find all the new products on Synology's website now.
As for the debacle with the plus models only being certified for use with Synology branded drives, it appears that the company communicated its plans very poorly and there's no excuse for the press release that was put out. Synology will allow other drives to be used with its plus range of NAS appliances, but it's under the condition that the likes of Seagate, Toshiba and WD validate their drives with the specific model in accordance with Synology's validation program. There are quite some gotchas with this, as for starters, it's unclear if these companies will agree to this and if they do, it might only be for a few limited drives, like their NAS specific products.
As it was explained to us, Synology got tired of trying to validate third party drives, as the hard drive makers change things without notifying Synology about changes to their drives and the company felt that they were spending too many resources on validating drives for the hard drive manufacturers. Not doing so is a big gamble from Synology's side, but clearly also a push to try and sell bundles to their customers. From our understanding, the feedback has been good from their business customers, but Synology is aware of the feedback from its consumer customers and the company is listening to feedback, but the question is if that will be enough to retain many of their consumer customers.
View at TechPowerUp Main Site
