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Short and sweet: how to choose a RAID/HBA controller for the server

RAID controllers have not left and are not going to, on the contrary, hardware controllers for NVME and PCI Express drives (including M2 format drives) are entering the market. The abundance of drives and software features of RAID/HBA make you approach this choice as responsibly as possible, otherwise you may lose data. RAID controllers have not left and are not going to, on the contrary, hardware controllers for NVME and PCI Express drives (including M2 format drives) are entering the ...
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What can Synology be replaced with in the conditions of sanctions. Part 2: Choosing a software

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 ...
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What can Synology be replaced with in the conditions of sanctions. Part 1: Choosing a stable platform.

You are very lucky if you used the NAS's of this company only for storing files: you will easily find a replacement for yourself. It's much worse if your business is actively tied to DSM services, including those related to virtualization, video surveillance, backups and fault tolerance. After the events of February 2022, Synology was one of the first to file for divorce and leave the Russian market. This means that any other market is not immune from the fact that the company does not fall ...
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Exclusive interview with Synology GmbH CEO Jeffrey Huang

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 ...
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Impregnable NAS: hardening and protecting Synology

A modern NAS is quite capable of protecting itself from most attacks and guaranteeing not only the continuity of the service, but also the inviolability of the stored data. Even with minimal settings and following the manufacturer's recommendations, the NAS can become an impregnable fortress for an attacker, so reliable that you can connect the device directly to the Internet without a Firewall, leave it literally in an unguarded place (which is important for peripheral installations), being ...
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Synology RS4021xs+review. An inexpensive NAS that has everything!

... able to run in the Synology Virtual Machine Manager virtual machine or in the ... . This is usually achieved through read caching algorithms, but in some ... heads in RAID arrays. It is not specified what technologies Synology used ... Password) and data storage (C2 Storage) have been launched within Synology C2. You ... operate in two modes: read-only and read/write. In the first ... into more complex arrays, including RAID 5, the main thing is ... minutes after startup. As for read/write caching, the behavior here ...
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What's new in Synology DSM 7? We analyze 7 improvements for a business customer

... Fibre Channel Protocol, acceleration of RAID functions, a redesigned SSD ... is turned off. Please note: Synology Virtual Machine Manager allows you to migrate virtual ... read/write cache (for more information about SSD caching in Synology ... in the SSD read/write cache fails, Synology DSM automatically resets ... Much more interesting is that RAID 6 was accelerated, both functioning ... of the performance of RAID arrays in Synology. But to maintain ... cloud, which is used for data storage and is characterized by very ...
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Synology FlashStation FS6400 review - testing speed and getting to know Synology branded SSDs

... Read our article " Studying SSD and RAM caching in Synology ... high response stability in random read and write tasks, and ... and Virtual Machine Manager would put an end to the development of Synology ... Suite As for the basic, root capabilities of the NAS, ... show the reference stability of read access, but with a ... remind that we have RAID 5 out of only ... You can read about them in our storage reviews Synology and Huawei ... In the Oracle pattern, the data storage system shows remarkable results, being ...
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We test the function of face recognition in video surveillance on Synology DVA3219

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 ...
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Synology SA3200D review: dual-controller NAS with all services, virtualization and Docker

This model is the only NAS of its kind that achieves Active-Passive fault tolerance not only for file protocols, but also for embedded software, including video surveillance, virtualization server, backup and containers . The ink hasn't dried yet in our review of the dual-controller iSCSI storage we are already testing Synology a logical continuation of the two-controller series of storage systems from the same manufacturer: a full-fledged NAS, made according to the fault-tolerant Active- ...