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I am buying a disk for my home-made NAS server. I will not access my server very often so I am planning to spin down (put disk to sleep) when not in use. I was thinking about WD Red or Seagate ...

To all companies, data is a vital resource for business operations. Protecting data from corruption, user error, hardware failure, theft or site disaster is widely recognized to be a critical ...

This post brought to you because my current setup needs a bit more space in the near-ish future and I wanted to sanity check my thought process. I've cobbled together my current set up from things on ...

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Careful where you pour that hot water: on the right is a 12oz coffee cup, while on the left is Synology's latest NAS, the 4-bay Disk Station DS409slim. Squeezing up to four 2.5-inch hard-drives into a ...

Just as you wouldn’t use a low-end graphics card for high-end usage, you shouldn’t use the wrong hard disk drive in your storage system either. There is a reason for every product and you should ...

Synology is a world leader in network storage, covering a broad range of products; from consumer focused and budget friendly storage units to save backups and important documents, to full-blown ...

As we continue our march through the digital age, more and more of our traditional media is coming with us. Printed photos are scanned, music is ripped from records, and even home movies shot on ye ...

If you’ve ever tried to store a Final Cut Pro X library on an external hard drive connected to your local network, or via an actual NAS from a company like Synology ...

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