A New and Easier Way to Mod Your Synology NAS Synology’s gradual shift towards business and enterprise users has changed what some home, enthusiast and homelab users can do with DSM, particularly when it comes to 3rd-party drives, SSDs, network adapters, hardware transcoding and other unofficial modifications. Community-developed scripts have helped restore or extend many […]

10 WAYS that NAS is Getting Screwed Over the past 18 to 24 months, the consumer and prosumer Network Attached Storage (NAS) market has undergone a noticeable shift in design priorities, hardware architecture, and software accessibility. While broader industry pressures—ranging from component supply constraints to shifting manufacturing priorities—have introduced genuine engineering challenges, many recent market […]

Synology Release the RS1226+ 8-Bay Rackstation NAS Synology has now formally introduced the RackStation RS1226+ and RS1226RP+, its latest compact 2U, 8-bay rackmount NAS systems for small and medium-sized businesses, branch offices, communications cabinets and other deployments where rack space is limited. Released in July 2026, these are not intended to be large, full-depth enterprise […]

A New DIY NAS Software Challenger! But Does FygoOS Deserve Your Data? Fygo OS is a relatively new NAS operating system aimed at users who want to build their own storage server without relying on a traditional turnkey NAS brand or a more technical platform such as TrueNAS, Unraid or OpenMediaVault. It runs on x86 […]