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Synology charges 3-4 market rates for most of there components, so reducing TCO etc is pure fantasy and bull crap. Honestly, this article should have star
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As someone who buys and recommends their rackmount units as backup units for Veeam if they lock down their system to not allow 3rd party drives, we will mo
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If you can't manage to format the email version of your newsletter in a way that allows it to be read in an email program, PLEASE include a link to allow r
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To this I say Goodby Synology instead of Goodby 3rd party drives. There are plenty of other options.
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Still missing Synology low cost Value SSD. Synology Enterprise SSD is too expensive to home or SMB use. And I'd love to see small and fast all-flash Synolo
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With NVMe cashing and volumes, or even 4x 2.5" SSD's, these are quite capable of saturating 10GbE... also keep in mind, those types of speeds are rarely su
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Seriosly ... wtf is with this hardware on 2025 ???
1. No integrated gpu
2. 4Gb ram
3. Ohhh 2.5 LAN ... ohhh ... thanks Syno
4. Limited nvme ssd hardwar
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You should include info about the HDD et SSD themself.
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Which RAM are you using for the DS918+? And which DSM version? I was looking for upgrading RAM from 8GB to 16GB ... but I found a lot of reviews talking ab
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The Sad part in all of this it will hurt the USA the most. Canada, USA, and Mexico redid NAFTA with triumph in his first term and he agreed it was a good d
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Dears,
respect to the tests, but i am looking from this page quickly if the DS923+ has a PCIe 3.0 or PCIe 4.0 NVMe M2 slot? Which should i focus on then
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China has the money and the skills to do what they do well. They also appear from a distance to have competent and intelligent leadership. It can’t be ea
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Why you have set 80MHz instead of 160MHz on 5Ghz band for Lite version? This is limiting the max speeds...
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I'm wanting to use this to create a USB backup of my Terramaster F4-423. Can I use the 423's software to create a RAID for this as a USB backup (not just a
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You've hit the max transfer speed of 1Gbps congrats. Tuning will get you right up to 125MB/s but the b-B conversion is 8:1 so you need faster networking to
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Interesting change in Synology's model numbering system!
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Can this use 4tb nvme gen3?
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So the n355 can do hardware transcoding but the GPU needs to be detected? Will this be a problem with truenas scale?
Also what cooler do you recommend for
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Terramaster U4-500 built in 10GbE. I guess, should be a good 4-bay rack-mount NAS.
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I'm wondering whether I should even put my recently purchased UGreen 4800 Plus (€505) into operation.
The N5 already seems more "future-proof" with it
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