Choosing the Best 2-Bay Synology NAS Drive
Choosing the best NAS drive for your needs can often be a difficult or imposing job. Network Attached Storage has evolved a lot over the years to a point now where they are less like basic storage devices and more like fully functioning computers, with...
Comparing the Synology DS220+ vs the DS218+ NAS Drive
Choosing to buy a NAS drive can often be be a tricky investment choice to make. Although the development of network-attached storage in 2020 has far outgrown the rather simplistic ideas of it being a brainless hard drive you can access by...
The Synology DS920+ 4-Bay NAS Drive Hardware Review
When the new Synology Diskstation series was revealed a few weeks ago, I think it was safe to say that it got peoples attention! The previous 18+ series of NAS had been around since September 2017 and many users were starting to get worried...
I use Drive between various computers, iPhones, and iPads to my DS1019+, but I've noticed when setting it up on a new computer (all the different synced folders) it takes days for it finish syncing. This week on my MacBook Pro Drive seemed to lose it's settings so I've had to set up all my...
Synology M2D20 NVMe SSD Card Coming Soon
The last month or so has been an absolute landslide of new release information for Synology, generally a frightfully tight-lipped company. From the announcement and release (in Japan at least) of the DS920+, DS720+, DS420+ and DS220+, to the impending...
Personally I don’t user torrents. My preferred choice is Usenet. Still every now and then people tend to ask me how to setup docker containers and most often is how to set up a torrent client with VPN protection.
I have wrote in the past how to utilize VPN on your NAS and one method of...
Hi there. Have almost settled on 1019+ as the reviews say it's super fast and super quiet.
What is the absolute quietest option for me (for total memory of around 16 to 24 TB) and one disc safety? What is the absolute fastest drive in the <$1000 range? Am I better with a 1019+ (with 5 Bays...
Comparing the Synology DS720+ vs the QNAP TS-253D NAS Drive
Trying to buy the best 2-bay network-attached storage (NAS) drive used to be so simple. Just over a decade ago, NAS was (for the most part) a glorified hard drive that you access over the network or internet that you and your PC...
In the Community, there are countless posts complaining of the inability to see the NAS in Windows Explorer... My experience points to something murky with DSM (or my own ignorance... who knows?).
Here's what I see presently.
Dbl-clicking the NAS icon displays a window with all Shared...
Comparing the Synology DS920+ vs the QNAP TS-453D NAS Drive
These days, whatever you are doing, it creates data. It is becoming increasingly hard these days not to leave a digital footprint, A trace of your whereabouts, or a few you bits and bytes of what you are doing. In fact, many of us do...
I'm nearing my renewal date for aaa.synology.me, and want to change that to a wild card... do I enter *.aaa.synology.me as the domain name, and assume that aaa.synology.me falls under the wild card, or ... do I enter *.aaa.synology.me as SAN with aaa.synology.me in the domain field?
Has anyone...
Hi everyone, I am trying to create a simple network consisting of Synology Network Attached storage (NAS), TP-link POE switch and UAP HD and it wont have access to the internet. I have activated the DHCP server on the NAS and assigned An IP address for the access point. To configure the AP. I...
Comparing the Synology DS920+ vs the DS918+ NAS Drive
Buying a brand new NAS in 2020 is a lot easier than it would have been as little as five years ago. The hardware landscape of network-attached storage has changed dramatically for the better and now most modern NAS solutions are...