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Due to the COVID-19 situation, all Synology workshops were converted into webinars. Most of them stated on the 31st of March, World Backup Day. What a coincidence ha? I tuned in to one of them, South Central US regional, that was supposed to take place in Texas. The whole workshop
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March 31st. World backup day. If you are unaware, this is the day to raise awareness regarding your data it's backup and your overall peace of mind knowing that all those digital bit and bytes are safe. Synology as a brand that works day and night to make
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UPDATE: 04/09/2021 - Acronis True Image Mobile as of version 5.1.2 will no longer support backups to the NAS. So be sure not to update to this version as you will have problems with your backups! Keep in mind that you will still be able to
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Have you ever managed to upgrade the hdd setup in your nas without the need to backup anything and still get the result you wanted? Let’s see how you can upgrade a 2bay NAS from a single disk to a two drive setup without the need to reinstall DSM
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If you are unaware, Synology has a Beta channel program for their various applications. Since they have started to pull away some apps from the core of their NAS OS, DSM, they also started to introduce some apps inside this beta channel for testing before rolling them out to the
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📢UPDATE 19.01.2022 - Added 16GB of RAM to my second RS unit. Got it from ComputeRAM After my first attempt at upgrading the memory in my RS3614RPxs unit has failed, this time I got my hands on a certified memory that officially works with this model. After 24h
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UPDATE 13/07/2020 - In the past 5 months, nothing has changed on the DSM7 front regarding the preview release date. I have from a reliable source that in May of 2020, the release date for the preview version is September 1st. Let's see if this will
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📢UPDATE: 15/06/2020 - NEW Tizen app has arrived!! I have added images and a short description at the end on how to set up and use the new Samsung Plex app that also now features the LiveTV grid/guide view! With high-speed internet and almost everything else running
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UPDATE 31.03.2020 - added information at the end of the article on UPS network configuration with multiple NAS devices using the same UPS 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
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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 got. Well, the good news is that RS units are working just fine. 4Gbit LAG also detected and working as
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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 these two devices. For my DS units everything is configured as well but I will move them into the rack
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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 an end of 2019. Synology just posted on their community site that the new upcoming DSM 7 OS is now