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I got an old DS218play to play with. The plan was to try to use that a backupdevice (currently on same network as my DS923+). I configured a backupjob to backup my stuff to the Play-device. However, transferspeeds are pretty average, something between 25-45MB/s (files are mixed in size). I know...

How to Make Your Synology 4-Bay NAS Cooler and Quieter in Just 20 Minutes! The appeal of having your very own private cloud space, accessible much more securely and faster than the average third-party cloud service, is undeniable. Purchasing a Synology DS923+, DS423+, DS920+ or DS420+ NAS to...

A fairly recent beginner to Synology NAS I wanrt to upgrade my iMac to a new model - what happens to my NAS ? Do I have to back everthing up and start from scratch; I understand, I think it will retain all my files, but I also have Hyper backup and what wouls happen to Synology Drive ? Sorry...

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I have a NAS and recently upgraded my storage. I use the NAS as a file store, I use it to backup my computers, I use it to backup any cloud data including email and I use it for surveillance. It's a neat little box, the software is generally good and it works (though I wish the hardware was a...

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Hi there, I have two NASes located in two buildings, they are in the same network. I have ABfB installed on both, ABfB (A) makes backup of few virtual machines and standalone PCs and replicates files to ABfB (B). Restoring from ABfB (A) works fine, but I'd like to be able to restore from ABfB...

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We are about to use Synology NAS and we need a freeway and best practice to migrate from Dropbox to Synology NAS. We found some sites talking about migration tools like CloudFuze, Gs Richcopy 360, AviPoint, and GoodSync, but all are not free. I appreciate your help

Anyone have VPN split tunneling and have functionality as described below, using an android VPN app?... In the VPN app you can define that ONLY specific apps and/or web sites go to the Syno NAS (I use reverse proxy now)? So basically, the VPN app is always 'on' but is not routing any traffic...

I have one DS-214play with a pair of WD Red drives, and it's been working great for about 8 years. But it's now above 75% full, and now I'm also piling my manufacturing business files into the same drive as personal files, not ideal. Our basic setup is nothing special, just favoring...

My DS218+ NAS keeps disconnecting from the network. If I restart it in the evening, it has usually disconnected when checking the next day. Whilst network access can't be granted, the unit appears to be working as all indicator lights etc are running and I can hear the usual disc activity...

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Hi, new to Nas in general, so please be gentle ! I have a legacy Zyxel nas325 with two 1TB drives which have had little use. I was very unhappy with the user interface, so after research, I now have as follows: A Synology DS 223J 2 bay with 2nr Seagate Iron Wolf Pro 4TB drives. I have to say...

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One of 3 NAS's.... and 1 of 2 720+'s added a new line of 7 firewall allows, that already exist in another firewall rule already.. All 3 NAS's are at same DSM version. Verified that this was the case on all NAS's, but also on the one 720+ that added the extra firewall rule.... and after...

Usage type: enthusiast Preferred form factor DS (DiskStation) Number of bays: not sure how many bays Do you have any existing drives that you plan on using? / Prefered RAID array setup for this NAS: not sure This NAS will be used for: multimedia, business (virtual machines, mail...

Synology DS423+ vs DS923+ NAS – Which Should You Buy Buying your first network-attached storage device can be really intimidating! If you have spent the better part of a decade storing your personal or business data on public cloud services or in a drawer full of USB drives, but have now taken...