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NAS Compares Synology E10M20-T1 Hardware Review

Review of the Synology NVMe SSD Cache and 10Gbe Combo E10M20 Upgrade Card Technology moves FAST! If I am fast learning something as I spend another year in the network industry, I have long since learnt that was one though ‘impossible’ will all of a sudden be a doddle! In the network storage industry, Synology has always been a brand that is heavily praised for its software (DSM and all its applications) but in terms of hardware, they have always been a manufacturer that until about 2016/17, played it a little safe. Since 2017 however, we have seen them largely eliminate this school of thought with some impressive leaps in their hardware range (breaking ground on a number of technology standards too). They were the first brand to...
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NAS Compares Synology 2020 NAS PLEX - First Time Setup Guide with the DS420+

**** DO NOT FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS VIDEO **** Rather than deleting this video, this post is left here as a warning so that you know not to follow it's instructions on placing media in the 'plex' Shared Folder. The installation of Plex Media Server will create the 'plex' Shared Folder and its purpose is to hold the operational data used by the Plex. You should use a different Shared Folder for media files and allow the plex user read-only access, ideally, unless you want Plex to be able to delete media files in which case read/write access is needed. The Plex installation places enough warnings in the plex Shared Folder to not place media files in it, as can be seen in the video itself ... it's unclear why this has been...
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Filebrowser is Back! Web File Manager Install and Overview

The popular web file manager Filebrowser is alive and well. The project was recently taken over by new devs and is being maintained regularly. Back in May I wrote this article about Filebrowser. I mentioned how I hoped someone would bring it back to life after it was abandoned for several months. Well, it’s happened! This video shows how it looks now on desktop and I’ll show you what it looks like on mobile as-well. I’ll install it on Synology so you can see how it’s installed using Docker. See the Filebrowser Github here for more info. Subscribe to me on Youtube for more videos and guides like this! Continue reading...
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New Synology x20+ NAS models are coming

blackvoid New Synology x20+ NAS models are coming

Well if we are to believe the documentation on Synology web site looks like we will be getting more then a few new + models soon. The four new models will be divided into two two bay and two four bay models. So DS220+, DS720+ will be an upgrade to the existing two bay devices DS218+ as well as DS718+ and on the other side of the spectrum we have DS420+ and DS920+, upgrades to the current DS918+. Continue reading...
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