Synology at 2025 CES: BeeStation Plus, Compact New NAS Servers, and Surveillance Solutions

[btarunr]

Synology at the 2025 International CES showcased updates to its popular consumer network storage products, beginning with one for its popular BeeStorage line of flash-based personal cloud devices. The new BeeStation Plus comes with 8 TB of flash-based storage—double that of the original BeeStation from 2023—and updated system hardware that includes an Intel Celeron J4125 processor with 4 GB of DDR4 memory, USB 3.2 Gen 2 type-A and type-C ports; and an updated software frontend, including the BeeProtect software that makes snapshots and other forms of backups of your machine. The device continues to lack Wi-Fi, and relies on wired Ethernet to connect to the network.

Next up, the company showed off a couple of its entry-level desktop NAS solutions under the DiskStation brand, the DS224+ (2-bay), and the DS423+ (4-bay). Both feature SATA 6 Gbps drive bays, and you can expand storage using any USB mass-storage device that plugs into its 5 Gbps USB 3.2 port. The DS224+ comes with two 1 GbE interfaces. Under the hood are a Celeron J4125 processor backed by 6 GB of DDR4 memory. The DS423+ can hold up to 72 TB of storage, and besides the four SATA 6 Gbps bays, has two M.2-2280 slots with Gen 3 wiring. The NAS can access any of its drives at up to 226 MB/s reads, with up to 224 MB/s writes. Networking interfaces include a pair of 1 GbE. Lastly, the company showcased a series of "direct-to-cloud" WLAN and PoE surveillance cameras under the C2 Camera series.



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[Alan Smithee]

The DS224+ and DS423+ were launched in 2023. Maybe google for 5 seconds.

 

[Rexter]

No way this is the only products they are showcasing. Less than a handful from last year? Did Synology think they were getting too popular and start to make it difficult for themselves? Overpriced products with old hardware, software stripped of features?

 

[Chaitanya]

Stupid Synology and their obsession with 1Gbps NICs.

 

[Timbaloo]

Stupid Synology and their obsession with 1Gbps NICs.

This. I'm currently looking to get a 2-bay NAS, I'm not in a hurry, but with the lack of 2.5GBit ethernet on their devices, I'll most likely shop at Asustor or else. And yes, @Rexter does have a point.

 

[Mr. Perfect]

Networking interfaces include a pair of 1 GbE.

Again?! Maybe in two more years when they refresh again...

 

[Timbaloo]

Again?! Maybe in two more years when they refresh again...

When 10GBit has trickled down to consumer level NAS from the competition

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

Stupid Synology and their obsession with 1Gbps NICs.

Not making excuses for them, since they are on a roll when dropping the ball seems to be their goal, but they havent released anything new, at least on the DS line for at least a couple of years, so these are just old.

But yes, they need to do something proper soon or they will lose all the good faith they had earned all these years.

 

[thedigitalhobo]

Stupid Synology and their obsession with 1Gbps NICs.

How are they gonna sell any of those 2.5 and 10gbit cards if they install them standard?

 

[Timbaloo]

How are they gonna sell any of those 2.5 and 10gbit cards if they install them standard?

They don't. People are just using 2.5GBit USB-NICs on their Synology NAS. They're just lazy on the HW side of things, and if they stick to that, they will sooner loose the market leader status. Also a lot of the consumer products don't even have expansion slots.

 

[DaemonForce]

Stupid Synology and their obsession with 1Gbps NICs.

I would be okay with this if it were the fallback connection or whatever potentially sees the Internet but these boxes need expansion support or built in 10GbE SFP+. Synology and other NAS appliances are still sitting on very shaky history with the corruption, loss or other compromise of data as well as other issues that make these choices an unwelcome solution for anyone with even half a brain. This is partly why I UNretired an AM2 era eMachines box.

Low power 64-bit CPU: ✔
Decent clock:
Virtualization: ✔
Containerization: ✘
Multi-Core: ✘
Large memory: ✘
Dual SATA: ✔
Gigabit Ethernet: ✔
PCI-E x1 expansion: ✔
PCI-E x16 expansion: ✔
USB 2.0: ✔
USB 3.x: ✘
Fan curve: ✘

If you dig deep enough and get familiar with eWaste, try using it for a bit.
You'll be really surprised by what fits and what doesn't.
Especially if you terminally main a big honkin chonker desktop.
The day I need more is the day I move everything into an older 2U rack.

When 10GBit has trickled down to consumer level NAS from the competition

Won't get here soon enough. Pick up a card.