The most difficult thing is not even to pick up packages to replace Synology services with free ones, but to support their work, promptly responding to glitches and updates. This is not an easy, but doable task that can be completed in a few weeks. Installing applications, configuring services Having planned the storage, I proceed to installing the software. Docker is already installed, and now I will install MergerFS and SnapRAID file system support for the archived data array. For example ...

... server platforms or self-assembled computers. For two decades, Synology ... with cascading, powerful backup server and fast deployment with easy ... choice would be to buy a neutral server and install and ... to buy a regular server: here you have a huge used market ... future storage array So, the task is set: to replace Synology as ... very lucky if you used Synology only as a file ... modern hardware installed in the server (unlike VMware ESXi). In ... management support for accessing the server behind a NAT provider, ...

Will Vendor Lock be implemented, how did the company survive the mining fever, how does it look at Web3 and decentralization, ZFS and RAID 2.0+, will DSM be sold separately? We are talking about this and other topics with the CEO of Synology. - I would like to start the conversation with a question about the home user market. When Synology was just starting out, the NAS was a mystery to the average person, and most PC and laptop owners did not understand what it was for. Now, after so many ...

Synology's new flagship enterprise segment, a dual Xeon Silver model with 24 SSD bays and built-in virtualization. We will test how it works on it and get acquainted with the new branded SSD from Synology. In general, it's time to stop talking about Synology's top models as NAS-s for medium-sized businesses. A few years ago, the company set a course for unification and hyperconvergence, deciding that many customers will be able to transfer their local services to storage using virtualization ...

Your business has already grown so much that you need your own server for CRM, MySQL or virtualization, but the prices for server hardware upset you? In this article, we will tell you how to save up to 100 times on buying used server hardware and not regret buying it. Server equipment has a huge safety margin, it can operate 24/7 for years and decades. And if you are not worried about the lack of warranty and support, but there is a desire to buy a top server at the price of a good mobile phone ...

Artificial intelligence is marching to the masses, and now NAS has the ability to recognize faces and classify objects in the video surveillance system. Now you can configure and send alerts for security guards, automatically open locks or use IoT algorithms depending on who exactly is in the camera's field of view. Many corporate buyers of Synology NAS are choosing these video surveillance solutions because, since time immemorial, the company has provided a simple and effective security ...

First dual-controller storage from Synology, marketed as iSCSI storage for virtualization hosts. We will test how quickly it switches between controllers and how it recovers back. Perhaps since Synology released its first rackmount NAS, at all press conferences the company has been asked when will they release a 2-controller solution? The manufacturer himself explained for a long time that the company has a High Availability solution for organizing NAS into a cluster, that in the modern ...

Many specialists of small organizations clearly understand the advantages of ZFS and can justify to the management the savings from software LZ4 compression and deduplication when buying a new storage system, but there were no inexpensive solutions for this file system. But a holy place is never empty, and QSAN decided to combine in one device everything that we love in Linux and everything that we value in ZFS. Today, many technical experts believe that ZFS is something that works only ...

With the release of a dual-socket storage system with 24 SSD drives, Synology announced: here is our product on which you can build fast high-availability systems and hyper-converged virtual systems, where storage and server are combined in one device. It is one of the fastest NAS devices to go on sale today. Promised performance - up to 500K IOPS in 4K Random Read, minimum power consumption like two light bulbs, horizontal and vertical scalability, including available expansion components. We ...

This SAN storage system has many features that make it worth paying attention to. First of all, this is the RAID 2.0+ technology, thanks to which in our testing, RAID 5 survived a fall of 6 drives! In addition, this is an extended work with snapshots, because each of them can be mounted as a separate LUN, automatic LUN reduction and much more. Huawei storage systems are relatively new, and today the Chinese manufacturer successfully competes with brands such as Dell/EMC, Netapp and HPE. ...