blackvoid Synology DSM 7.4 and AI future

It has been eight months since Synology released a new version of DSM, not including incremental updates that came after October 2025.

Now, following the Computex 2026 expo, we have info on the upcoming new DSM 7.4 that should arrive starting mid June all the way till mid August, as well as some updates on the productivity packages.


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[DSfuchs]

Today, I managed to get DSM 7.4 running on my RS3621xs+ using non-Synology drives, a process that required a lot of effort. To cut to the chase: there is absolutely no new function here that didn't already work in version 7.3!

After updating to 7.4, DSM no longer accepted my existing Volume 1. Since I don't own any genuine Synology drives, I had to add the drive to the internal database. In the end, however, I went ahead and performed a complete fresh installation with DSM 7.4.

As far as I'm concerned, DSM 7.4 is completely useless. Its only purpose is to force users into the Synology ecosystem. I would have at least expected my Nvidia GPU to be properly integrated for AI usage.

I will now follow the modern DSM approach and run DSM 7.x in Docker on ZFS. For this, I am using OMV7 on Debian 12 with the Proxmox kernel.