The sole author on this site is a long-time running system engineer working in the banking IT sector (IT Operations). Passionate about Mac, NAS/SAN, virtualization, and Docker environments.
review
Table of Contents Introduction Appearance and content Expansion for RAM and NVMe cache Peripherals and ports DSM installation 7.1 DSM configuration Copying data via local network (1G LAN) Hyper Backup Synology Photos Plex Virtual Machine Manager & Docker Conclusion Introduction Although it is 2022, a review of one of
dsm7
📢UPDATE: 22/02/2022 - DSM 7.1 links are now LIVE! I will be updating this and related articles depending on how the testing goes. 📢UPDATE: Since 19th of February, no links are operational. Synology might be waiting for the 21st (Monday) to make them available. Today, Synology has
dsm7
📢UPDATE: 20/04/2022 - The new Synology Drive 3.0 (beta) app is now available on mobile platforms. Keep in mind that this is still a beta version and you will have to have Drive server 3.0.2 or higher installed in order to be able to use
security
As every year, since 2004 the "Safer Internet Day" aims to draw attention to frequent and current Internet problems such as sexting, hate speech, privacy protection and the like. More than 200 countries around the world are actively participating in this campaign, which is committed to promoting safer
synology
Today, Synoforum.com was honored by sur.ly with a "Brilliantly safe" award for 2022! Coming as a total surprise, but then again, no surprise considering how the platform was built and is currently maintained, this award was well deserved. Now, into its 3rd year of existence, Synoforum.
dsm
📢UPDATE - patch KB5009557 replaced with KB5010791; patch KB5009546 replaced with KB5010790; patch KB5009555 replaced with KB5010796 I know what you are thinking. Windows post, on this blog? Considering how important it is, let's leave it at that. About a week ago as the new Windows updates for
apple
Some of you might know that I am an avid fan of Apple and their products. Been using the platform since 2008, but considering how much info about this company and products there is online, personally I tend to not write about it here very often. Still, saying this, I
backup
Table of Contents Hyper Backup Snapshot Replication Active Backup for Business Cloud Sync Conclusion Everyone who uses Synology NAS (or NAS in general) mostly does so out of a few basic needs. One of the primary ones is backup. What is characteristic of all brands of NAS devices, including Synology,
SA3400
SA3400 series articles: Intro - review and testing Part 1 - Installation and configuration Part 2 - Backup and restore Part 3 - Virtualization Part 4 - Multimedia In the last article of this series, I thought about dedicating it to multimedia. Why? So let's say that this
SA3400
SA3400 series articles: Intro - review and testing Part 1 - Installation and configuration Part 2 - Backup and restore Part 3 - Virtualization Part 4 - Multimedia So far, we've seen how to set up the SA3400 NAS, configure it, and how it behaves and works with
docker
Back in October 2020, Docker launched image scanning functionality powered by Snyk. Shortly after that, in November this function made it to the Docker Desktop versions as well. So what is this all about? Log4Shell bomb Following the recent exploit inside Log4J 2.14 or older versions, many in IT
SA3400
SA3400 series articles: Intro - review and testing Part 1 - Installation and configuration Part 2 - Backup and restore Part 3 - Virtualization Part 4 - Multimedia In the second part of this series, I would turn to specific tests to show how the NAS works, and how much