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When I upload a folder to Synology Photos using drag and drop, 95% of the time, the app auto sorts these folders into a Year/month folder format. This has saved me a ton of time, and I LOVE this feature and the app as a whole. Occasionally it hangs up while loading, so i have to babysit the...

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Why is the Synology RT6600ax Router’s use of the 5.9Ghz band such a big deal? It is a valid question. Synology has talked a big game about their new RT6600ax supporting the 5.9Ghz band and 160Mhz channel support, but what do they mean in real terms to the end user? To get to grips with this, we...

It would be fair to say that the lion share of the attention that has been directed towards the Synology RT6600ax router has been about its wireless capabilities, however, the physical connectivity and general LAN standards of the system are a good mix too. That said, the RT6600ax does appear to...

Just installed the beta for Synology Drive mobile 3.0 on my Android device. I really like what I see. However it makes me wonder what the eventual strategy is of Synology, as this app now features very light Photos, DS Audio & DS Video features. Are they planning to migrate all mobile apps into...

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Synology RT6600ax Router Review – Premium Networking? Reviewing the new RT6600ax router was always going to be quite a tall order. Routers, unlike the NAS drives I so often talk about, are far more common in every home or office in the world. Then there is the fact that they are available...

I am not seeing a way to share a folder within Synology Photos, only single photos. Can others confirm this as well?

Hi, In Synology Photos (shared space), Automatically Created Albums (People, Places, Tags, Videos, Recently Added) aren't shared with "downloader" users or groups. I have to give a full access permission to a group or user to give access to these albums, but it give also access to others...

I want to expand my 920+ from 4 x 4TB to 2 x 4TB + 2 x 16TB using SHR1. After a fair bit of research and compatibility*, noise levels (I don't want anything louder than my current WD Red Pros) and obviously price being key, I have settled on the Ironwolf Pro 16TB. I've found what I think is a...

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Hi, Does anyone know if the Seagate Ironwolf Pro 10 TB is compatible with the Synology RS4021xs+? I am trying to set up High availability between my RS4017xs+ and a yet to be purchased RS4021xs+, but my RS4017xs+ is running Seagate Ironwolf Pro 10 TB hard drives, and I can't see an option...

Even though that C2 services were around for a while, it was not until the June of 2021 that we got DSM 7 and with it five new C2 services. More details on the whole collection you can read in the following article. Today, one of the most important Synology app got its own dedicated support...

Hello, I just got a brand new DS1821+ (7.0.1-42218 Update 3) and I have started to set it up. It came with the original 4GB RAM and I have inserted for the time being only 2x WDC WD80EFBX. As usual, I am running all tests before starting to fill the DS with data. When running the Memtest from...

QNAP TS-464 or the Synology DS920+ NAS Drive – Which Should You Buy? Choosing Between the Synology DS920+ and QNAP TS-464 NAS is more than just about how you are spending your money at checkout! Making the move away from 3rd public cloud storage can be a big, BIG decision for some users. The...

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I have the Drive client installed on a Linux desktop and in the user's home directory I find ~/.SynologyDrive/data/session/ that has accumulated over 800MB of files in a year or so. Does anyone know the purpose of these files and whether I need to keep them around?

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The Synology E10G22-T1-Mini Adapter – What is it? What IS the E10G22-T1-Mini? It is quite a mouthful of a name, isn’t it? What makes it so special? If there is one area of the network storage market that Synology has always seemed to keep at arms length, it has been 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE)...