nas Power overwhelming The day has come to power on 1st RS3614 unit. Got myself a 1KW UPS from CyberPower (CP1500EPFCLCD). Considering that each RS3614 with 12 drives (HDDs at 7200 RPM) use
Fire it up! Took some time the other day to fire up RS units and see if the drives are fine as well as to try and use Hynix ECC RAM that I
nas Let there be CAT6 LAN Today I managed to spare some time and connected cat6 cables to both of my RS units. A few days ago I configured the switch and made LAG preparations for
nas DSM 7 preview signups are now OPEN! UPDATE (3rd Jan 2020): A little birdie told me that I have made the cut! Still waiting for the official confirmation but fingers crossed, testing will hopefully begin soon.What
The Mandalorian, season 1 reflections Star Wars The Mandalorian tv show with its season one has ended. Here are my thoughts. This short article will contain written and visual spoilers, you have been warned. I
nas 42U rack assembly has started Finally I have got some time to play around with my rack closet and Synology RS twins. Managed to put in an additional shelf for DS718 and DS918 to be
nas DSM 7 beta, no show in 2019 By the looks of it we won't be getting a beta of DSM 7 this year. According to this ComputerBase.de article, looks like Synology will take some more time
It's STAR WARS month! Winter is coming (and its not GoT related) and with it, SW content is coming on all fronts! With the new SW9 movie coming to cinema tomorrow, its great time
synology Synoforum.com 8 months later Wow, 8 months have passed since this unofficial forum was launched! With its 500+ members, great design and awesome members with various knowledge, it was quickly recognized as a place
nas NETGEAR, take 2 It's been 3 weeks since I have ordered my NETGEAR GS724T (rev4) 24port switch from Amazon. After 2 weeks of no show, followed up by Amazon leting me know that
docker Bitwarden email invites Small and short update on the BW docker image and configuration of SMTP settings. Reason for this is to have your BW setup open to the Internet by having and
nas VPN, or how to access your data securely, the right way In this article, I will talk about setting up a VPN service on your NAS. There are two ways you can set up a VPN service on your NAS. One
nas 42U rack in the basement? Sure! The time has finally come! I have managed to get a used 42U rack in excellent shape and have it delivered to my new place. Why 42? Because it was
New WD RED SSDs have arrived Considering that my new rack installation has been delayed, in the meantime WD has just pushed out brand new SSDs from their RED lineup. Designed for 24/7 workload in
synology 3-2-1 > Active Backup Synology's recent addition to their collection of great apps and solutions include a new version of Active Backup for Business package. In this article, I will reflect on the tool,
docker Commento - commenting done right Since I started this blog, I wanted to have a comments function running on it. It took a while since I got my first response, but it was worth it
iMac + DELL, a great combo Few days ago I got my work DELL display (U2515H) replaced after 4 years. Considering I was using it I got the offer to buy it, so I did. Not
docker Let's Encrypt + Docker = wildcard certs If you ever wanted to use a wildcard certificate with your Synology NAS you probably found out that out of the box that's not possible. In this tutorial, you can
docker Bitwarden - LiveSync feature This update will focus on the "LiveSync" feature that offers BW users instant sync of any updates across platforms. So for example, if you add a new entry using the
docker Synology Reverse Proxy This tutorial will cover a few short steps that you need to know and setup in order to make your apps and services accessible via the internet (or LAN) using
docker Grafana - InfluxDB - Telegraf (GIT) monitoring setup via docker This will be a short post on setting up a great platform for all your monitoring needs. Let me start by saying that using this setup is not limited to
synology Network cabinet and Synology 5G mesh Finally managed to start working on configuring my new network cabinet (not done yet) and my 5G mesh setup from Synology using RT2600AC and MR2200AC routers. So far it was fun and easy, nothing special. Wifi singnal is strong and all over the place
docker Rocket.Chat - SLACK alternative (with MongoDB as backend) Did you hear of SLACK? How about Discord? Microsoft Teams? Great! Then you know what this tutorial will be all about. In this tutorial, we will focus on running an
docker Bitwarden - a self-hosted password manager In this post I will focus on running a self-hosted alternative to some comercial solutions out there, like 1Password for example. Nowdays when privacy is at its peek having your
synology Synology 5G mesh, coming soon New network should be up and running by the end of this week (next one for sure) if all goes to plan. Both RT2600AC and MR2200AC have arrived and are
