This might seem like a no-brainer… I guess the UI is just a bit misleading, I don’t know. I wanted to erase my freenas disks, but I guess “detach volume” didn’t sound convincing enough? Anyways, this is new for me because usually I’m worried about losing my data and avoid Read more…
The package selection Synology offers is pretty extensive. You can add-on anything from Plex Media Server to Apache Web Server or McAfee Anti-Virus for your NAS. But there are some apps we all know and love and Synology simply does not offer. Some of these are not offered because they Read more…
In the process of optimizing a Synology DS1815+ for iSCSI, I opted to defragment the volume containing the LUN. This Synology had 2x Samsung 850 Pro SSDs in RAID-0 serving a cache, but the cache will be skipped for sequential I/O. In this scenario, with the sequential I/O turned off, the Read more…
Not that I use eSATA for any of my peripherals, but I noticed that some Synology models have eSATA ports where other models don’t. Get this: During a tear down of my DS416play, I discovered there’s an eSATA port on the USB 3 module. I haven’t tested it and don’t Read more…
We let our Documents sync to the cloud, download themselves on all of our PCs, and trust that no single person besides ourselves can ever see those files, unless otherwise intended. This may be true that “only you” can see what’s in your Dropbox and other cloud storage, but in Read more…
When I bought my Synology DS416play, I was concerned about the included 1GB of RAM. I eventually decided that it probably didn’t matter that much how much RAM it had When I saw my RAM filling up for no reason, my concerns grew again. I decided I’d upgrade the RAM with Read more…
Performance of Synology devices out of the box can only be monitored in real-time. This is fine, but when you start installing packages, transferring data, and the NAS starts doing its thing — well you might be left wondering at times “what’s going on?”. You can see up to fifteen Read more…
I don’t know about you, but my impression of Amazon Cloud Drive has always been somewhat negative due to the fact that you couldn’t sync the files with your PC after you uploaded them. I mean, this completely defeated the purpose of having that type of storage for a lot Read more…
I was using acd_cli, mounted to my file system last night, and picked up today to finish up. I navigated to the directory I mount ACD in and listed the contents. root@vultr:/var/cloud# ls -alF ls: cannot open directory ‘.’: Bad address Only to see an error that I haven’t seen Read more…
I filled up my 15GB of space on Google Photos. I always thought the photos were kind of stuck in there. I knew I could download them, but I didn’t want to do it through their web interface. That would be very cumbersome as I have many photos. I discovered Read more…