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The Best ‘Price per TB’ NAS HDD Deals of Black Friday 2024 This Black Friday brings a range of exceptional deals on NAS hard drives, offering substantial discounts for those looking to upgrade or expand their storage solutions. Whether you’re building a new NAS setup or adding capacity to an existing one, these discounts on top-tier drives from Seagate and Western Digital provide a great opportunity to secure reliable, high-performance storage at a lower cost. Below are the standout deals, featuring both consumer and enterprise-grade drives, designed to cater to a variety of needs and budgets. Continue reading... - - -

Choosing the Best Hard Drives for your NAS When choosing a NAS server for your home or business, selecting the right hard drive is essential. Just like every tool in a toolbox has its role, NAS-specific drives are engineered to meet the particular needs of network storage environments. Using the wrong type of drive in a NAS can lead to decreased performance and potential issues with reliability. In recent years, manufacturers have developed specialized NAS hard drives (including SSDs) that are designed for 24/7 use, high durability, and optimized read/write cycles to suit NAS workloads. As we enter 2024, the storage landscape has evolved significantly, with hard drives now reaching capacities of 24TB and 26TB, and innovations in...

Taipei, Taiwan—August 6, 2024—Synology has been recognized as the leading data storage and management brand in the Swiss market according to the IT-Ma Continue reading... - - - Source: synology.com

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One of the oldest sync tools in Synology's DSM is by far Cloud Sync. Unlike the Synology Drive Server that offers personal device (desktop and mobile) backup and sync options (Dropbox, Google Drive, and One Drive alternative), Cloud Sync focuses exclusively on maintaining data synchronization with 3rd party cloud destinations. Continue reading...

Your Questions for UGREEN about their New NAS Solution With UGREEN still in the process of launching their Kickstarter campaign for a new NAS Storage Solution (the DXP NASync series) to market, many users (myself included) have a lot of questions about the product. Let’s face it, we are not talking about a standard ‘over the counter’ purchase where – this is CROWDFUNDING! Therefore, users need to take extra care and caution before considering putting down money (remember, crowdfunding is not the same as eRetail!). Alot of users want to know just what the UGREEN DXP NAS Storage solution can do, what it can’t do, UGREEN’s plans for the future and…at a very basic level… is the UGREEN NAS actually a ‘thing’! People have been burnt by...

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While the BeeDrive has been around since May of 2023, the new current Apple iPhone 15, has been out only for a few months. On top of that, the Pro version model is still a hard buy in some parts of the world. Regardless, the topic of this article is to see if and how the BeeDrive will perform connected with the new iPhone 15 Pro when shooting ProRes video content. Continue reading...

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Cloud storage has become the go-to choice for businesses, with over 60% of enterprise files now residing in the cloud, and a staggering 94% of businesses worldwide embracing cloud storage solutions (GoodFirms, 2023). However, with nearly half of cloud-stored data classified as sensitive information, including employee and customer data, financial records, and intellectual property, it […] Continue reading... - - - Source: blog.synology.com

Taipei, Taiwan—9 August 2023—Synology today announced the DiskStation DS224+ and DS124, the two newest additions to Synology’s range of data solutions Continue reading... - - - Source: synology.com

While Synology is not always associated with a hypervisor platform, even though it provides one, it can still be used with several world-known solutions. This short two-part series will show how we can use a compatible Synology NAS with VMWare ESXi host, as well as how to back up and restore virtual machines running on that same host. On top of that, we will see how Active Backup for Business and Synology's SAN manager packages work in this type of scenario. Continue reading...

Taipei, Taiwan—02 June 2023—With Computex 2023, one of the world’s leading technology trade shows was back on, and with it Synology’s traditional product showcase. Held from May 30 to June 2 at Taipei’s new POPOP Maker Space, the Synology Solution Exhibition presented the brand’s newest solutions for data management, backup, video surveillance, and cloud services. […] Continue reading... - - - Source: blog.synology.com

Taipei, Taiwan—22 May 2023—Synology today announced the release of DSM 7.2. DSM 7.2 offers a range of innovative enhancements to address IT challenges Continue reading... - - - Source: synology.com

Taipei, Taiwan— 17 May 2023—Synology today launched the 4-bay DiskStation DS423, its newest addition to the Value Series, designed as a multipurpose s Continue reading... - - - Source: synology.com

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Taipei, Taiwan—3 May 2023—Synology today launched the SA3610 and SA3410, two highly scalable storage systems that allow organizations to store large d Continue reading... - - - Source: synology.com

For those who are not familiar with Synology C2 Object Storage service, it is Synology's new cloud-based S3-like service that was introduced following the roll-out of DSM 7. In this article, the focus will be on a recent change that happened before the end of 2022 in terms that Synology's Object Storage is now officially compatible with the Veeam Backup & Replication solution. So let's see how we can use Veeam to backup data from our endpoint devices directly to C2 Object Storage. Continue reading...

World Backup Day – Get Your Data in Order! ALERT – This is your reminder that it is World Backup Day and you should have your backups in order! It may seem like a slightly contrived event, but the motivations behind World Backup Day are arguably more generally positive than alot of manufacturer celebration days. World Backup Day’s origins are more than a decade old and started over on Reddit when a user wrote about losing their data via a defunct HDD and wishing someone had reminded them about how important it is to backup data (though there is also debate that it was started around a Maxtor ‘Backup Month‘). The campaign started in 2011, and every year brands, tech professionals and industry bigwigs will push the subject of backups as...