Synology

Overtime the free space on you hard drives can get spread out on the physical drive, slowing performance. In order to combat this you should defragment your hard drives on a simi-regular basis. This tutorial will cover how to defragment a hard drive array on Synology NAS. Overview Hard drive fragmentation is caused by the fact that when you delete something on a hard drive, it does not actually write over the data that was there. Instead the drive essentially forgets that data was ever stored there. This allows the data in this location to be overwritten the next time...

Synology is a powerful home NAS with terabytes of storage available. This tutorial will show you how to connect your Mac directly to your NAS, which allows you to access this additional storage directly from Finder. This process is simple and can work over either a wired ethernet connection or even wifi, though you will get better performance over a wired connection. There are three different ways to connect your Mac to your Synology NAS: SMB, AFS, and NFS. Between these three options I would recommend SMB, as AFP is depreciated, and NFS is slow and more difficult to setup....

Overview Link Aggregation allows you to combine multiple 1GbE connections to get higher performance when multiple devices are connecting at the same time. One important thing to note: You cannot use Link Aggregation to gain a speed advantage when only one device is connected. Meaning you cannot use 4, 1GbE ports to get a faster than 125MB/s read/write on a large file transfer. Instead you can get up to 4 devices all getting the full 1GbE speeds. This is the primary reason why most Synology models come with at least two ports. This not only allows for higher multi-user performance...

SSH Keys on Synology NAS SSH keys are a great way to securely login to your NAS without requiring password authentication! In this tutorial we are going to cover setting up SSH Keys on Synology NAS from DSM. This will work with both MAC and PC (and linux of course). Configure Settings First, log in to DSM. Open your Control Panel. Under Advanced Mode, go to Terminal and SNMP and click Enable SSH Service. Leave on Port 22 and click Apply. Back in the Control Panel, go to User -> Advanced and click Enable user home service. Click Apply. SSH...