Synology

In this article, we’re going to take a look at Unraid vs. Synology. Unraid and Synology NAS devices are two NAS systems that you can use on your local network. There is a huge difference between these systems, however, and the main difference is that Synology NAS devices run the DSM operating system, while Unraid is the operating system. This means that if you want to set up your own NAS, you cannot purchase the Synology DSM operating system separately and must purchase a Synology device. If you’d like to purchase a Synology NAS, you must purchase the NAS device...

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...

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...