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My home lab rack reminded me this morning that it exists. Drive announced a time-out today and that was a bad sign. A quick look at the rack and I found that the primary, secondary and backup NASes are flashing blue (power switch). Maybe one yes, but all? No disc was flashed (LED). However, all...

I’ve had a DA916+ for a few years now. Initially, I had it set up and working well. Then, after changing from Android to apple phones I never got around to using it with the new phones. So, it has sat unplugged for awhile now. When I turn it on, it just starts beeping. I have 2 drives...

For what it is worth, with even more than the usual precautions, the SSD vs HDD boot disk comparison: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/are-ssds-really-more-reliable-than-hard-drives/ Interesting to see these statistics develop. My average SSD age is with 4 years higher than Backblaze :-) no...

My RT2600AC's boot speed has decreased to the point where my Security System now shows that it takes at least 3 minutes to re-boot the router, from signal loss to the time the signal comes back. Even after I can bring up the log-on page for the router, I get a message that the router is busy...

TL;DR: "How do I mount/open a vdisk for a VM that doesn't boot?" I want to access files directly from inside the vdisk without it running the VM that was on it. I don't care if I have to access it from Synology NAS CLI or if I have to copy the vdisk image to my local machine to do so. More...

It seems to have borked my run at startup task (it was working prior to this update as far as I was aware): #!/bin/sh # Update inotify.max_user_watches echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sysctl -p Checked this morning and it was still 8192. :( Then I tried (to...

Hello, I am used to use Synology Drive from windows, ubuntu and macOS. But I enter a special case today for which I did not really find any helpful hints on the web. I installed a double boot ubuntu/W10 on a computer. I want my remote data to be synced on that computer in a single directory (do...

Hey everyone I am having issues booting my DS412+ that appeared after I had shut it down for just a while to reposition the unit. The unit does start, the fans work fine, but I am not getting any startup sound, only the blue LED blinking forever. The disks do not even spin up anymore and the...

Hello Friends :) I am new here and i bought a months ago a DS418. I have other 2 bay NAS I am trying to use PXE boot network via synology NAS. I am new also in PXE boot and yesterday i tested PXE boot with windows 10 and windows 7 , i used PXE serva but i only get sucess with win 7 (apperar a...

This tutorial will cover detail instructions on how to configure and setup your NAS to be a PXE boot server for your LAN. Keep in mind that this is a tutorial that I wrote back 5y now, but it still applies. We will see how to setup Syno as your PXE server as well as different methods of booting...