Tag: Compatibility

In the world of storage, the hard drive is often seen as a commodity. It's easy to assume that any drive with the right interface and capacity will "just work" in a NAS. But after decades of supporting millions of Synology systems across home, SMB, and enterprise environments, we’ve learned otherwise. The hidden cost of unrecognized or incompatible drives Behind every reliable storage deployment lies a finely tuned chain of interdependent elements: hardware, firmware, operating systems, and workload behavior, all working in harmony. But what happens when that integration is missing? We've seen it firsthand through years of customer support

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link One thing many people overlook in a storage system is how the actual drives that go into the system play a vital role in determining the overall dependability of the solution. At the same time, business environments also demand more. They require performance and predictability. Why we're introducing our HAT5300 enterprise hard drives Synology can control what components we use in our NAS. We also design and thoroughly test our DiskStation Manager (DSM) operating system and software ecosystem on our devices to ensure they work well together. But how do

Compatibility makes all the difference System memory is used by practically everything on a device with compute capabilities. For a NAS, it is responsible for not only allowing the processor to run core services, additional packages, or even other operating systems via virtualization but also caching the data that is being accessed. System memory provides a small but extremely fast, temporary storage to buffer incoming and outgoing data to improve performance. Many Synology devices support system memory upgrades. Installing additional memory modules may help your device become snappier and will potentially allow it to support additional users and services. It’s a relatively simple