Do you want to be notified of drive issues, but not receive a monthly “email” report that says no issues were detected? Are you wondering how to turn off the monthly Disk Health report emails? Follow this simple guide to disable monthly emails about the “optimal” health status of your disks, while you keep receiving … Read more about How to Disable Synology Monthly Drive Health Report
Did you know it is totally unnecessary to have all your computers, laptops or desktops, tablets or mobile phones ask your router to resolve domain names to an external DNS server whenever you click a link or enter a domain name? Why not have something that sits on your local network and forwards unknown DNS … Read more about How to Use Synology as a Local DNS Cache
In order to use FTP on your Synology NAS you must first create an “FTP” user and activate FTP File services. Once the FTP user has been created, read the article where I explain the differences between FTP, SFTP and FTPS. These steps are mandatory if you want to become a real expert in using … Read more about How to Set Up FTP on Your Synology NAS
What is RAID 1? On Synology Nas, RAID 1 is most often implemented with two drives. Data on the drives are mirrored, providing fault tolerance in case of drive failure. Read performance is increased while write performance is similar to that of a single drive. A single drive failure can be sustained without data loss. … Read more about Synology: RAID 1 is not Backup
Are you using phpMyAdmin as your development interface on Synology Nas and keep getting logged out after +/− 24 minutes? That is phpMyAdmin default security policy: if you are not being active or browsing on the browser for more than 1440 seconds, you will be logged out with the message “No activity within 1440 seconds; … Read more about phpMyAdmin: No activity within 1440 seconds; please log in again.
You have unpacked your new Synology Nas DS1019+ and the old one (DS718+) is sitting right next to it. At this point, you ask yourself: how do I get all the data from my old Nas onto my new NAS? In my opinion, the fastest and overall best way is to simply put the old … Read more about Synology: Migration From DS718+ to DS1019+