Ahhh, NASes. Wait, what’s the plural of ‘NAS’: NAS’? NASs? Who knows. Either way, network attached storage devices are a great invention: you load them up with various hard drives, then attach them to your home network somewhere.
Then you – and others in your home – can access the files in this simple and convenient central location.
If your Synology NAS seems sluggish or it has slooow file transfer speeds, it’s possible that your data drives are being used too much. This is known as ‘high disk utilization’, and while short bursts of high disk activity is normal, sustained high usage can cause problems – including potentially damaging your drives. Key Points … Read more
I freely admit that my study (and PC) looks a bit… boring: The lack of sparkly RGBs or triple 4K monitors means that I won’t win any style awards. However I’m actually pretty happy with my home computing setup, which includes a fairly powerful 4K video editing PC (that has 12 cores and 64GB of … Read more
Western Digital produce some great quality drives: from massive 22TB hard drives to super-fast NVMe SSDs. They also make a drive that sounds fairly eco-friendly: the WD Green range. Unfortunately using this drive in your Synology NAS can have some big consequences. Here’s why. What Makes The WD Green Drives ‘Eco-Friendly’ WD Green drives claim … Read more
Some people barely notice power outages – especially brief brownouts. But if you own a NAS, you should be very wary of them – because even a small power outage could result in big problems, including potentially losing your data. Here’s exactly what you need to know about power outages as a Synology owner, and … Read more
I have a network switch in my attic, so when I purchased a Synology NAS, it made sense to install my NAS there. That way, I wouldn’t have to hear my NAS’ fans (and drives) spinning, but I could still access and use it normally. Until I couldn’t. One day I couldn’t access my NAS, … Read more
Synology’s NASes are usually fairly reliable. You plug them into your home network, and then you can easily access them via file explorer or a web browser. However, sometimes things… go awry. When you try to access your NAS over a web browser (either to transfer files, or simply to manage it via the DSM … Read more
With electricity prices higher than Elon Musk on Joe Rogan’s podcast (am I allowed to say that?), people have rightly been going around their homes turning off unused appliances. But what about your Synology NAS? It’s basically a computer, right? And people often turn their computers off at night – so it stands to reason … Read more
One of my favorite Synology features is the DSM interface: the admin panel which you can access over the internet, giving you easy access to control your NAS, and also access your files. But sometimes this interface is really slow and laggy, making managing and accessing your Synology NAS almost impossible. Thankfully there are often … Read more
I’m a big fan of my Synology NAS, however one thing that irked me originally is that despite paying over £300 for my DS220+, I only got 2 GB of RAM. What? It’s 2023, and 2 GB is nothing. What gives? I then learned that you can expand the RAM on your NAS, by buying … Read more
I love my Synology NAS DS220+. It all seems much faster than my old D-Link NAS. The admin console is slick, and files transfer quickly… most of the time. Every so often, I go to upload or download a file and it is sloooow. Luckily there are often a handful of things to check that … Read more