Synology Intros DiskStation DS725+: Compact 2-Bay Storage Solution

[Nomad76]

Synology today announced the launch of the DS725+, a compact 2-bay storage solution. "The DS725+ offers users a compact and capable storage platform that can accommodate future growth in storage demands," said Anya Lin, Product Manager at Synology. "This makes it an ideal choice for home, home office, and edge environments."

The 2-bay DS725+ offers scalability for growing data needs with support for one DX525 expansion unit, providing up to 5 additional drive bays for up to 140 TB of raw data. For network connectivity, the DS725+ features a 2.5GbE port along with a 1GbE RJ-45 port. Additionally, it supports M.2 NVMe SSDs for either SSD caching or high-performance all-flash.



DS725+ 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 DS725+ requires compatible hard drives for installation.

Versatile features for business workloads

• Powered by Synology's DiskStation Manager (DSM), these systems offer 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.

Availability
The DS725+ will be available starting July 8, 2025, through Synology's network of partners and resellers worldwide. For more information, visit the DS725+ product page.



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[Hant]

Well, half way there!
Still waiting on a modern CPU and only M2 storage in a really small package.
Coupled with 5G-Lan

 

[Chaitanya]

Well, half way there!
Still waiting on a modern CPU and only M2 storage in a really small package.
Coupled with 5G-Lan

Atleast you are getting ECC memory out of the box. Its still quite rare to find consumer NAS with ECC memory support.

 

[sauria]

Interesting thanks for the update. I don’t like the proprietary Drive requirement.

 

[dgianstefani]

Well, half way there!
Still waiting on a modern CPU and only M2 storage in a really small package.
Coupled with 5G-Lan

TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus Review - Compact and Quiet

A book sized NAS that not only fits eight M.2 SSDs, but also offers 10 Gbps Ethernet to make the most out of the drives. On top of that, it's extremely quiet during operation and boasts a compelling feature set.

www.techpowerup.com

 

[BArms]

It's locked to Synology re-badged drives. Junk.

Compatibility List | Synology Inc.

Centralize data storage and backup, streamline file collaboration, optimize video management, and secure network deployment to facilitate data management.

www.synology.com

 

[Hant]

TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus Review - Compact and Quiet

A book sized NAS that not only fits eight M.2 SSDs, but also offers 10 Gbps Ethernet to make the most out of the drives. On top of that, it's extremely quiet during operation and boasts a compelling feature set.

www.techpowerup.com

You buy Synology for the software, nothing can compete with the stability of Synology. But Hardware is terrible old now.

 

[Hant]

Atleast you are getting ECC memory out of the box. Its still quite rare to find consumer NAS with ECC memory support.

Maybe, haven't had a memory issue since I started my NAS, 3 years ago. Not om my previous Homeserver 2011rig either, it ran 10 years

 

[lexluthermiester]

TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus Review - Compact and Quiet

A book sized NAS that not only fits eight M.2 SSDs, but also offers 10 Gbps Ethernet to make the most out of the drives. On top of that, it's extremely quiet during operation and boasts a compelling feature set.

www.techpowerup.com

TerraMaster is the better option by far and for the following reason;

It's locked to Synology re-badged drives. Junk.

Compatibility List | Synology Inc.

Centralize data storage and backup, streamline file collaboration, optimize video management, and secure network deployment to facilitate data management.

www.synology.com

Before they locked their NAS and DAS boxes to their own branded drives, they were competitive. Now they're junk.

 

[TheGeekn°72]

Well, half way there!
Still waiting on a modern CPU and only M2 storage in a really small package.
Coupled with 5G-Lan

my gamer in Gaben, BeeLink is literally right there and does everything you just described (although it's 2x2.5G) for 200$
why are people "waiting on" Synology to provide any improvements when there are other brands way ahead of them in their own field ???
Synology chose the path of vendor lock-ins, highly proprietary shit, older, very lacking, non-upgradable, non-repairable hardware, consumer hostile tactics and exhorbitant prices, just fckn ditch them already !!

 

[Hant]

my gamer in Gaben, BeeLink is literally right there and does everything you just described (although it's 2x2.5G) for 200$
why are people "waiting on" Synology to provide any improvements when there are other brands way ahead of them in their own field ???
Synology chose the path of vendor lock-ins, highly proprietary shit, older, very lacking, non-upgradable, non-repairable hardware, consumer hostile tactics and exhorbitant prices, just fckn ditch them already !!

Software is outclassing evrything else on the market.
Hardware less important. You use a NAS until its done. Zero issue with my 3 year old Synology NAS. What is there to be reparied?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Software is outclassing evrything else on the market.

Not at all.

Zero issue with my 3 year old Synology NAS.

Yeah, but with that unit you have the CHOICE of using the drives YOU choose. With these new units, people are forced to use only Synology's own branded overpriced and underpowered/underperforming drives.

Their software could be the bee-knee's and it would still be FAR overshadowed by their new very consumer-unfriendly and near predatory business model. Everything they make just became garbage to be avoided.

 

[TheGeekn°72]

Software is outclassing evrything else on the market.

I've used 3 different Synology units over the past decade, I have absolutely no idea what in their software can't be replaced by something else readily available on the FOSS market. There's so many options, it makes your take look like trolling.

Hardware less important.

Hardware is very important, are you seriously planning on waiting until Synology finally makes an NVMe-only NAS to get one ?

You use a NAS until its done. Zero issue with my 3 year old Synology NAS. What is there to be repaired?

Let's see what you'll say when it breaks years from now (or maybe tomorrow, who knows) and repairs (for probably something very dumb and would-be easy to fix on other brands) cost 70-80% the price of a new Synology unit, which will probably cost, without exaggeration, x2 to x4 times the price of the competition : watch Synology release 4-8 years from now an NVMe-based NAS with an N100 (which will by then be outdated) with vendor locked-in drives costing 200$/TB *minimum* with the barebones unit for 450 for 4-drives, 750 for 6-drives. Oh, and vendor locked-in RAM too.

They took a look at Apple and Nvidia, found out what worked out for them that we hate the most about and decided to apply that for themselves, this is the end result.

Their software could be the bee-knee's and it would still be FAR overshadowed by their new very consumer-unfriendly and near predatory business model. Everything they make just became garbage to be avoided.

Even though I answered that on my own in my previous reply and in the other Synology thread, I too wonder how tf do they keep selling with these tactics.

 

[Hant]

I've used 3 different Synology units over the past decade, I have absolutely no idea what in their software can't be replaced by something else readily available on the FOSS market. There's so many options, it makes your take look like trolling.

Hardware is very important, are you seriously planning on waiting until Synology finally makes an NVMe-only NAS to get one ?

Let's see what you'll say when it breaks years from now (or maybe tomorrow, who knows) and repairs (for probably something very dumb and would-be easy to fix on other brands) cost 70-80% the price of a new Synology unit, which will probably cost, without exaggeration, x2 to x4 times the price of the competition : watch Synology release 4-8 years from now an NVMe-based NAS with an N100 (which will by then be outdated) with vendor locked-in drives costing 200$/TB *minimum* with the barebones unit for 450 for 4-drives, 750 for 6-drives. Oh, and vendor locked-in RAM too.

They took a look at Apple and Nvidia, found out what worked out for them that we hate the most about and decided to apply that for themselves, this is the end result.


Even though I answered that on my own in my previous reply and in the other Synology thread, I too wonder how tf do they keep selling with these tactics.

Hardware is not important. I wrote, my +720 does the job good, I have 10 Lan-Cameras, backups etc. Software do not crash. It is safe. These two factors thrumps everything else. Yes I buy Apple phones for the same eason.. Synology have enogh of apps for most uses. For that 1G Lan is okey, but 5G-lan would be better. I always strive after lower energy consumption. Thats why I want smaller package with a small power brick.
Synology drives? It is a small extra cost for a system that will run 24/7 for 5-10 years

 

[TheGeekn°72]

Hardware is not important. I wrote, my +720 does the job good, I have 10 Lan-Cameras, backups etc.

The why are you waiting on an all-NVMe NAS from them then ?

Software do not crash. It is safe. These two factors trumps everything else. Yes I buy Apple phones for the same reason... Synology have enough of apps for most uses.

"Software do not crash." well shit, I damn sure hope it doesn't for the price they charge people. In the meantime, I have yet to witness a TrueNAS SCALE instance to crash, or literally any other popular FOSS NAS OS : just like Synology's DSM, they're all purpose built for NAS and I think it'd be pretty damn well known if any of them were prone to crashing.
Regarding apps, I reiterate, I haven't seen a single app/feature out of Synology that doesn't have a FOSS alternative in TrueNAS' app library or some addon package

For that 1G Lan is okey, but 5G-lan would be better.

You can get 2.5G, sometimes even 10G, on a similar product of any other brand for a fraction of the price : case in point, the BeeLink all-NVMe NAS I linked in my first post, which has 6 M.2 slots and dual 2.5G for 200$, I'd love to see a Synology unit beat that price ratio. Knowing Synology, the day they'll release an all-NVMe NAS, they're gonna put a 1G port on it and people will still fall over themselves to buy it and then complain that they put 400$/unit drives (that you probably can get the non locked-in equivalent for 80-120$ to slot in your PC) in it only to be bottlenecked by the network port.

I always strive after lower energy consumption. Thats why I want smaller package with a small power brick.

Which you can achieve with off-the-shelf component, there's no shortage of low power drives and N100/N150 motherboards with SATA port that can achieve very low floors of idle consumption, making Synology's relevance irrelevant.

Synology drives? It is a small extra cost for a system that will run 24/7 for 5-10 years

it's LITERALLY your standard off-the-shelf WD/Seagate drive, rebadged, with a vendor lock-in firmware, there's absolutely NOTHING different from drives I'd buy on amazon and throw into my handbuilt NAS, they last just as long and have the same performance.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Hardware is not important.

Nonsense. Good hardware is as critical as good software. Please stop with that.