Synology released an update to their Disk Station Manager software. It is mainly minor fixes, at least for me, but only took about 10 minutes to install. Read the rest »
Synology NAS: UPS Sharing
AFter gathering cobwebs all year there's finally signs of life. Between losing a UPS and wanting to rearrange my electronics I needed to get creative with power protection. The built in Synology network ups service was perfect for my needs. Read the rest »
Synology 4.2 Beta
Synology released the DSM 4.2 beta today which I jumped right on. The enhancements sound great, but still need top be proven. Read the rest »
iTunes – A Big Pile of Stink
iTunes 11 was released recently. I had hope that it would address some of my frustration with iTunes. It didn't. All the old frustration remains and a couple new bugs arrived. My thoughts on iTunes and my plans for music moving forward. Read the rest »
The OS Quest Trail Log #76: What I Use – October 2012
It's time to update what I use since my May posting is a bit outdated.. This covers the hardware and software I currently use. This includes Macs, Windows and Synology devices and their related software. Read the rest »
Field Notes: Synology Photo Station 5
I've been using Synology's Photo Station application for awhile. I've compiled some notes based on my experience. Read the rest »
First Hour: Synology 4.1 Beta
I was both excited and frustrated when I saw this tweet from @homeservershow this morning which linked to his post about DSM 4.1 beta. It was frustarting because I’ve been exploring Synology a lot recently and now it would likely change. I was excited because this more than a minor upgrade and has a lot of cool sounding enhancements. Here's my impressions after about an hour of use. Read the rest »
Synology Shared Folder Encryption
While I’m religious about encrypting my data when I move it offsite I do nothing to protect it in my house. If someone steals my Home Server it’s fairly trivial to get the data. It’s just a matter of finding it. The home server (and it’s backups) are the only places my important files reside and they are a small subset of my files, so folder encryption seems like a good fit. Read the rest »
Synology Apps: Cloud Station, Amazon S3 Backup, WordPress & More
I’ve been looking at several of the Synology DSM 4 apps (a.k.a. packages). I’ve only looked at a few but I’ve been rather disappointed. Since I’m unlikely to use them enough for a full review in the near future I’ll cover my frustrations here. For the record, this is on a DS212J running DSM 4.0-2219. Cloud Station Synology describes this a “Your Personal Cloud” and says its: …actually a private cloud that always prepares itself up-to-date. There are clients for Windows and OS X. The release notes do indicate that [...] Read the rest »
Synology Time Machine Backup – The Quota Option
Back when I first wrote about using the Synology NAS for Time Machine backups I had decided to go with a volume dedicated to Time machine. A recentcomment to that post, asking about quotas, got me thinking about alternative configurations. Especially since this coincided with me reconfiguring my DS 1511+ NAS. A dedicated time Machine volume on that was more limiting than I want. So I did some more testing and came up with a quota method on existing volumes which I'm now using. Read the rest »