Synology 2025 Series - Heads-Up

Roon Software Discussion QNAP/Synology NAS
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For those of you who might be in the market for a 4- or 5-bay Synology NAS, be aware that the recently-announced 2025 series is a step backward for the single-core performance that Roon requires.

Read:

Specifically:

At first glance, the DS925+ appears to bring a clear performance upgrade:

  • The AMD V1500B in the DS925+ offers 4 cores and 8 threads, doubling the multi-threading capacity of the R1600.
  • However, it has a lower base frequency (2.2GHz vs 2.6GHz) and no turbo boost, unlike the R1600 which boosts up to 3.1GHz.
  • Based on PassMark scores, the V1500B does outperform the R1600 in multi-threaded workloads (Docker, VMs), but lags slightly in single-threaded performance—which affects day-to-day NAS operations like file indexing, metadata handling, and app responsiveness.

Also, FWIW, the 925+ has removed the 10Gbps ethernet card option.

The same seems to go for the 1522+ vs the 1525+ (Synology DS1525+ NAS Revealed – NAS Compares)

So, if Roon is in your plans for a Synology NAS, act quickly to get a 2022/2023 series unit!

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Don’t run Roon on it, but haven’t updated my 920+ since Feb? when they deprecated the video transcoding functions and removed a lot of media-server functionality, WTAF?! Many posts claiming this as evidence that Synology are now exiting the consumer space, so be warned, YMMV.

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This screams security incident waiting to happen. Though I understand your logic, it’s not recommended.

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Thanks, I know, I know, and I rather wouldn’t, but our 14 yr old plasma can’t decode modern formats, so the Syno has to transcode. But it’s well locked down :crossed_fingers:

I believe the technical term is â– â– â– â– â– â– â– â– â– â– â– â– â– â– â– â– 

:joy:

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Off-topic, but I can’t believe the technical term, now in common parlance, warrants censorship, particularly in THIS day and age!!

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This, of course, is another controversial move:

I have a hard time believing that they won’t support things like WD Red in their “certification” process. Time will tell, or this will be the end of Synology as we know it…

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It feels that they are slowly destroying all the good will that they built up over many years in a grab for a bigger piece of the pie.

In the Enterprise market I understood, as it was about the ability to support their products 24/7/365 (even though they did a fairly poor job at it IMO and I bought a large number of powerful devices for VMware environments).

For home and technical user’s I think many will go elsewhere or build their own, as it is a pity as some of their software tools are really very nice.
I have a device that I need to think about replacing in the next year or two and will watch what happens in that time. I have had 3 Synology devices for what seems like forever up to this point.

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