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Synology NAS units make phenominal units for video editing and video production houses. This article goes over the best Synology NAS for a video production house. This guide will start at small editors, and go all the way up large units that can pretty easily handle 30+ editors. This setup will also go over some of the other hardware purchases to make such as 10GbE networking and SSDs vs HDD’s. All modern video editing software including Final Cut Pro, Premier Pro, and Dvici Resolve, can use a NAS for storing video files. What factors should you look into in buying...

Have you been getting the error option_error: sorry, unsupported options present in configuration: UNKNOWN/UNSUPPORTED OPTIONS when connecting a windows machine to a Synology OpenVPN server? This article goes over how to fix this error and get you connected to your Server. OpenVPN clients on Windows have been failing to connect to Synology NAS On July 10th 2023 OpenVPN client released a new change that broke windows clients from being able to connect to a Synology NAS due to the error: option_error: sorry, unsupported options present in configuration: UNKNOWN/UNSUPPORTED OPTIONS This is due to an issue within the OpenVPN configuration file...

Have you been getting the error option_error: sorry, unsupported options present in configuration: UNKNOWN/UNSUPPORTED OPTIONS when connecting a windows or MacOS machine to a Synology OpenVPN server? This article goes over how to fix this error and get you connected to your Server. OpenVPN clients on Windows and MacOS have been failing to connect to Synology NAS Update: This issue appears to be also occurring on both windows and MacOS On July 10th 2023 OpenVPN client released a new change that broke windows clients from being able to connect to a Synology NAS due to the error: option_error: sorry, unsupported...

Overview: gitea is a very lightweight web git client that you can run on Synology NAS using Docker. This allows you to easily manage your git repositories with a web interface, and using username and password, rather than SSH keys to pull git containers. Using Synology’s built in reverse proxy you can also easily add https:// encryption. Prerequisites: a Synology NAS with Docker / Container manager (for DSM 7.2 and later) installed Either a local static IP on the network or a DNS address pointing to the IP of your Synology How to install gitea on Synology NAS Using docker...

Overview Minio allows you to use your Synology NAS as an S3 bucket. In this tutorial we are going to go over how to install Minio on Synology NAS using Docker Step 1: Install Docker / Container Manager We are going to use the Minio Docker container in this tutorial. So you need to install either docker (DSM 7.1 and before) or container manager (DSM 7.2 and later) through the package center Step 2: Download the minio container under Registry We are going to be using the stock minio container. Simply search for it and download it. (link to container...

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...