The plan for 2012 was to bring in more NAS products from a wider range of manufacturers. That was the plan at least, but somewhere along the line a flood of consumer SSDs took over our lives. Still, ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Synology makes some of the most robust and feature-rich NAS servers on the market and one of the reasons their products shine is because of the software behind them. Their Disk Station Manager (DSM) ...

The Info Center has all your NAS’ information in a single place. Everything from thermal state to the installed hardware. Networking is a big part of a NAS, and as such, it has its own page. The same ...

Below the surface of any Synology NAS beats a heart in the form of DSM or DiskStation Manager. The operating system has been in development for a long time, proven by the current version 6.1 with 6.2 ...

Synology Photos is a free and powerful media management software tool for your Synology NAS. It allows you to upload, manage, and share your media – and is ideal for photographers and content creators ...

With services like Apple's iCloud and Google Cloud Music, it's easy to assume that the future of our data is putting it safe on someone else's servers. There's another option, however, in hosting your ...

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After scoping out the DS2413+'s hardware, we fired up the latest version of Synology's DiskStation Manager software (DSM 4.2-3202). Version 4.2 brings many improvements over 4.1. For example, LUN ...

We all spend tons of money and tons of time shooting the perfect pictures, making those perfect videos, and writing the perfect term papers, but most of us don’t have a backup plan just in case that ...