December 7, 2022

What is the Best Synology NAS Alternative?

This article will look at what is the best Synology NAS alternative. If you’re trying to determine if you’d like to buy a Synology NAS, there are really two different routes you can take. The first is purchasing a comparative product like a TerraMaster or QNAP NAS. These are physical devices that you can purchase that will run their respective operating systems. The second route is to set up your own NAS. This requires purchasing components to build your own NAS or using older hardware that you either already own, or will purchase. The benefit to this is that you...

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December 4, 2022

Synology’s upcoming big DSM 7.2 update is filled with long-awaited features

Whenever we talk about Synology, its top consumer NAS enclosures usually come to mind. While the hardware does play an important role in network storage, it’s the software that defines your experience. And Synology’s DiskStation Manager (DSM) is among the most feature-packed NAS operating systems out there. After its major facelift last year, DSM 7.2 is the next big update, brimming with features that users have been asking for a long time. Here is everything you need to know about DSM 7.2.

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December 3, 2022

Synology apps compared: The best options for your NAS

Synology NAS lets you create private cloud storage, which you can use to store, access, back up, and share your files freely and securely. The benefit of using a Synology NAS service over others is that it gives you access to several first-party apps that make it easy to create your private cloud and access the data from any device you own.

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November 27, 2022

How to Configure an NFS Share on a Synology NAS

This tutorial looks at how to configure an NFS share on a Synology NAS in DSM 7. There are many reasons why you might want to set up an NFS share, but one of the biggest is that you can give individual IP addresses access to an entire shared folder by default. This means that you can allow individual servers (like Proxmox, which we’ll look at below) to access a shared folder without authenticating with a username and password. The authentication occurs on the IP address, meaning that the shared folder will be accessible because we are specifying that the...

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November 15, 2022

Synology DS923+ review

⚠️ UPDATE: 23/11/2022 – info on the M.2 NVMe storage volume usage in DSM that is supported by DS923+ Table of Contents : Intro : Packaging : Specifications : E10G22-T1-mini card : SSDs, 3rd party HDDs and NVMe storage pools : DSM setup and apps installation : Speed tests : Virtualization and containerization : Plex : Conclusion : Intro It was 2016 when Synology started to roll out their popular 4-bay NAS models in a version that supported more potential bays and offered more power to the NAS. These models, starting with the DS916+, had an eSATA port on the...

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November 13, 2022

How to move your media from Google Photos to a Synology NAS

When it comes to photo management, no other app comes close to Google Photos. It's ahead of everything else with its many smart features that work as advertised. Even many iOS users cannot live without Google Photos. However, it was a different story when Google decided to charge a monthly fee for something that was previously free, and not many people were happy with this change.

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November 9, 2022

Synology DiskStation DS1522+ review

NAS systems have long been common appliances in businesses and the homes of cable cutters. They’ve grown even more popular over the last few years as many professionals shifted to working from home, while others have chosen to move their files to private storage rather than rely on cloud services. Synology’s new DS1522+ is a high-performance model designed for small businesses, video editors, and many data hoarders.

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November 2, 2022

Use Storj.io with Synology Hyper Backup – 25GB Free

Storj (pronounced Storage) is a decentralised cloud storage provider, it has over 13k nodes spread across the world supplied by people renting out free storage space on their servers. All data is end-to-end encrypted, and all files are diced up and distributed across nodes. Storj are offering the first 25 GB of storage/bandwidth for free of charge, you only pay for the bandwidth and space over...

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