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- - - Check out FREE NAS advice section on nascompares.com

- - - Check out FREE NAS advice section on nascompares.com

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What a surprise this is. Synology just announced their very own SSDs! Coming in two form factors. 2,5" SATA and M.2 NVMe these new drives have capacities from 400GB all the way to 1,9TB. New SAT5200 SSDs 480GB - 1,9TB PDF specificiations for 2,5" SSDs are here. New SNV 3000 models at 400GB PDF specificationos for M.2 SSDs are here. It will be sure interesting to see these drives in action am I am sure soon we will. More details can be found on Synology site for both 2.5" and M.2 models. Continue reading...

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Comparing the Synology DS720+ vs the DS718+ NAS Drive When it comes down to it, most users buying their very first network-attached storage device will end up choosing a 2-day device. A NAS used to be a remarkable niche piece of hardware that uses would buy and hardly something that troubled the consumer market, but as time has gone on and the size of our data grew, the speed of our internet has increased tenfold, and the desirability and affordability of owning your own NAS server for home or business have grown accordingly. Whether it is to run backups of all of your devices, host your very own Plex media server or to create a bespoke and security-conscious surveillance NVR setup, NAS drives can often provide the answer to many of...

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We’ve talked about how we can use SSD cache to reduce latency and accelerate transfer speeds. We’ve also explained the differences between consumer and enterprise SSDs, and why for sustained performance reasons we suggest the latter. Consumer and enterprise SSDs are two broad categories that encompass a wide range of performance profiles. Due to differences […] Continue reading... - - - Source: blog.synology.com

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Everything you need to know about Upgrading Synology NAS Memory Generally speaking, Synology NAS has a long-standing reputation for being underpowered when compared to brands like QNAP and Asustor, at least out of the box, choosing to focus on their award-winning DSM software. This is changing a bit in 2019/2020 with the newer Synology drives featuring improved hardware choices, but still, for many, it seems a little underwhelming. One potential benefit that’s highlighted to improve performance considerably multiple users is to upgrade the RAM (Random Access Memory) in the Synology NAS drive. Today’s post will cover my thoughts on the usefulness of upgrading the factory-installed RAM, how to determine if a RAM upgrade is needed at all...

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It’s a great thing to be able to manage all of your self-hosted applications from one dashboard. DashMachine makes this not only easy but also pleasing to the eyes! With this application you can bookmark and have easy access to your apps with icons for quick reference. Features creates a dashboard to view web pages uses a single .ini file for configuration dark mode/light mode and accent colors custom backgrounds and icons web interface to edit the config file and add image files ability to open web pages in current tab, new tab or iframe hideable sidebar with dragable reveal button user login system ‘app templates’ which are sample config entries for popular self hosted apps powerful plugin system for adding data from various...

Ever wanted to test out how fast your site was? Then you probably heard of JMeter? Well, today I would like to turn your attention to an open-source platform that’s not running in a UI under Java (?!?!) but rather from the command line. The best part is, your can Docker it. Loadimpact is now k6 If you ever needed or wanted to run any type of smoke, soak, or stress tests, you probably heard of Loadimpact.com. Well, they have decided to rebrand as k6 Cloud. Still, as much as you can use their services from their cloud, you can use the complete solutions and pull it from GitHub if you want to run it locally. If you are more like me, and running in Docker would be your choice, then just pull this image from Docker Hub. So what is this...

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