Synology recently presented its new eight-bay NAS. The DS1821+ is an absolute powerhouse with high capacity. Data Management with Synology The new DS1821+ is made specifically for high-capacity, high-performance data management and storage. DS1821+ is already the second model from the Plus series and has a powerful AMD Ryzen quad-core processor on board. With the …
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One advantage of using an NAS station like the ones from Synology is that the accompanying software can make both the setup process and file management quite a bit less taxing than a DIY solution. Synology is making its DiskStation Manager (DSM) more aesthetically pleasing by revamping its interface and all the associated apps. In line with that, some of those redesigned apps have already landed on the Play Store for you to download right away.
In case you hadn't heard, there is a big sale going on right now. Don't worry, we won't hold it against you if this is somehow the first time you're hearing about it... in late November. But you know the deal, if there's even a hint of something going on sale, Amazon will have a few pages of deals on memory cards, SSDs, and hard drives. These are all Deal of the Day offers, so the discounts technically go away at midnight (PDT), but it wouldn't be surprising if many of these reappear over the weekend.Some items are going for almost half-off, so there's a good chance you'll find something worth picking up. There are two separate pages on Amazon with different selections of products featuring something from just about every major brand in the storage game, including SanDisk, LaCie, Seagate, Western Digital, PNY, Synology, and others.
In the past when I’ve covered my experience with Synology NAS products, it’s usually been from the perspective of using one of Synology’s more powerful offerings as a media server for Final Cut Pro X libraries. Today, I’d like to flip the script and talk about Synology’s entry-level NAS, the compact DS220j. I’d also like to begin regular discussions of more common needs for the everyday Mac user, such as Time Machine backups, private cloud storage, etc.
Being an entry-level model, the DS220j is marketed as a personal cloud solution for data sharing and backup, and I find it to be a good fit for those applications. In this first hands-on video, I’ll walk you through what it takes to set up the DS220j as a Time Machine backup solution for your Macs.
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Dynamic DNS, or DDNS, is an easy way to maintain an up-to-date address on the internet, even if you do not have a static IP address from your ISP. Synology DSM has the capability to act as a DDNS server, which can automatically update the IP address of a custom google domain name and most other domain registrars. This tutorial covers how to use a Synology NAS to automatically update a domain name registered with google with Synology’s DDNS server. Overview Having a constant address on the internet that leads back to your home network is a critical component for...
When using a RAID / SHR on Synology NAS, you do not have to fill all of your drive bays at the same time. Instead you can buy something like a DS1819+ and start out with just as many drives as you need. Then once you start running out of storage space, you can simply expand the RAID pool on your Synology NAS by adding additional drives to your RAID pool. In this tutorial we are going to cover how to expand a RAID Pool on Synology NAS by adding an additional drive to it, as well some important things...
This tutorial will demonstrate how to set a hostname on your Synology NAS. A hostname is a unique name that you can set to your NAS, which you can use in place of an IP address on your local network. This can save you a ton of headache by giving your device an easy-to-remember name, and by allowing you have a consistent address on your network without having to set a static IP address. Overview Setting a hostname on your Synology NAS is easy, and it allows you to access your NAS without entering an IP address. For example, the...
Setting up a Static IP Address on Synology allows for your NAS to stay at same IP address on your network. This alleviates the headache of having to find the new IP address of your NAS every time it reboots when you want to connect to it from your computer. Background: There are two different ways to get a static IP address from your router: either through the NAS itself or using DHCP reservations. This tutorial will show you how to do the setup through the NAS itself. DHCP reservations are setup via your router and will be the subject...
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....