Did you know DSM 7 offers the possibility to benchmark your HDD disks, your SSD disks and your NVMe disks? Today I’m going to teach you how to automatically benchmark your disks yourself from home, and find out which disks are better than others. STEP 1 Please Support My work by Making a Donation. STEP … Read more about Synology: How to Benchmark Your Disks
Did you know some NAS models support Data Deduplication? What is Data Deduplication? Data Deduplication allows you to store more data in less volume space and achieve better storage efficiency in virtualized environments. Data Deduplication is only supported on Synology SSD disks and Btrfs volumes. You need to create a storage pool consisting entirely of … Read more about Synology: Which NAS Supports Data Deduplication
Are you thinking of buying the latest LG 4K TV, but worried because its webOS operating system does not allow you to install the Synology app called DS Video? As you well know, LG’s operating system “webOS” has a separate store for its applications , but “official” Synology applications are not available on it at … Read more about Synology: Can I Use DS Video On My webOS LG TV?
Did you know that Synology offers a free tool named RAID Calculator? Synology’s RAID Calculator tool can provide an estimate on space utilization with various mixed HDD/SSD configurations and RAID types. If you have a Synology NAS, you can choose a different RAID type on your HDD or SSD disks. For those who don’t know, … Read more about Synology: Online RAID Calculator Tool
On June 23, 2019 I asked in the Official Synology Community Forum if they could add a really useful option for all Synology NAS owners – and that option is the option of scheduling the fans. As you can see in the list of new DSM 7.0 features, there is no entry for such an … Read more about Synology NAS: Fan Speed on Schedule
After installing the latest DSM version 6.2.4-25556 some users have complained about receiving an Admin Account Security DSM notification telling them the following: Admin Account Security: The default account “admin” is vulnerable to brute-force attacks, which may lead to ransomware attacks. Click here to create another administrator account, sign in with the new account, and … Read more about Synology: Admin Account Security