Consumer-grade drives and those designed for server use come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from 3.5-inch mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs) to ultra-fast M.2 NVMe solid-state drives (SSDs).

Synology makes a wide range of high-end NAS systems for corporate and business users, but it’s also one of the few ...

The NAS supports all the latest hard drives, going all the way to 18TB while allowing for up to 36TB of space in a compact solution. We’d err on the side of SHR or RAID 1, though.

Synology has been producing network attached storage (NAS) technology for over 20 years, and its devices have maintained a consistent look and feel. In that time, the company has ...

Sometimes your NAS hard drives may fail — or you may need to replace them with higher capacity drives — and Synology makes it a simple process to ... Big storage does come in a small package.

The LinkStation 220D is a dual-bay NAS drive that houses two separate hard drives. You can buy it ‘unpopulated’ – with no drives at all – and then provide the drives that you want to use ...

That compares badly with conventional hard drives, but NVMe drives will get larger and cheaper. Only QNAP and Asustor have gone all-in with NVMe NAS at this point. QNAP has an NVMe NAS, but the ...

Synology is preparing to roll out new restrictions on third-party hard drives in its future network attached storage (NAS) devices later this year, the company confirmed to Ars Technica. The ...

We explain what NAS hard drive and SSD are & the differences between them. We also explain which is better for you in which scenario and why.

To backup Synology NAS to an external hard drive, follow these steps: Download Hyper Backup from the Package Center. Open the app and click on the plus(+) icon.

It's more NAS than external hard drive, but with 10s of terabytes of storage space, it's all the space you'll need for just about anything. Image used with permission by copyright holder SSD vs. HDD ...