For anyone who waited for the new model, the time has come. Now, was the wait worth it? Well, you will be the judge of that. To be clear, anyone using the X23 model can rest assured that no upgrade is needed because the DS925+ arrived with the same 2020/2021 AMD CPU, and while a different SOC is indeed being used in the current edition, there will not be much difference.

The biggest and only change is on the inside, while we can also see certain modifications on the back of the NAS in terms of its ports.

This is still a powerful device that can, with a few upgrades, offer a lot of various features and different deployment scenarios.

: Specifications

The DS925+, this time around, has had a bit of an "upgrade" by switching from the R1600 AMD CPU to the V1500B. This is a jump from a 2-core to a 4-core/8-thread CPU that is a logical choice for a device of this caliber. With the same 4GB amount of ECC RAM (up to 32GB) and two NVMe slots, the main difference is the network support.

This type of model always had a dual LAN port, and up until now, those were 1GbE interfaces. For the X25 devices, Synology finally decided to step up and upgrade them to 2.5GbE.

While this was a long time coming, compared to the previous generation, Synology also decided to completely eliminate the 10G support using their mini 10G adapter.

As can be seen from the comparison images above, there are several changes on the back side of the new NAS model. First off, the mentioned expansion 10G slot is completely missing, while the same USB 3.2 Gen 1 slot was reallocated to the left-hand side.

Finally, the expansion slot that was eSATA for a long time is this time replaced with USB-C. This also confirms that the new DX525 expansion device will not be compatible with older models, as was the case with DX517, for example.