You probably define ownership as something that is running on premise. Even if you are going down the DIY route using only open-source technology, you always depend on others test continue to test and develop the code. You are at the merit of that vendors implementation and formats. How much of your NAS do you really control, when using some off-the shelve solution. I guess this comes down to personal perspective. This, I feel, is Synology’s true quality - darn reliable hardware.
After 5 years it is still going strong without ever crashing or showing a fault.
The DS will remain in place for some low-prio data and scratch space until it dies. Thanks to Gigabit Fibre upload isn’t a problem anymore. I thought about it for some time now and ended up deciding that I am not going to renew my DS415+ and go all in on cloud offerings. Wife acceptance factor is extremely high. The experience is just so much better and reliable. If you factor in the hardware cost for the NAS you end up with an ROI of 10-15 years.Īs a result, I use GSuite and Google Photos for almost anything now and I am not even on Android. are as expensive as the electrical bill of running a NAS, if you live in the EU and stay below 2 TB total usage. So I am left with the bare storage which, thanks to many affordable cloud storage solutions, I rely on less and less on these days. I did not even bother to try their Office after I found that it uses its own proprietary file format that basically nobody else uses and their extremely basic UI compared to Office 365 or GSuite. I only tried Moments for a few days because it caused CPU starving on my DS415+. I then ditched Synology Photo Station because of performance and usability issues. It essentially drove me away from Synology over time.Īt one point I stopped using Drive because of its many subtle failures: duplicate files, out of sync folder structure, files not syncing because of path length limitations and generally high resource usage making my notebooks fan spin all the time. Not sure if others had the same issues as me with Drive, keen to know peoples experiences and also hopefully the sync center option is something that may benefit others that are having trouble with Drive
SYNOLOGY DRIVE SHARESYNC SERVICE STOPPING WINDOWS
No aggressive CPU usage and both windows and the NAS don't need anything additional installed. It works well and tbh I am not sure why I didn't use it before. This allows a drive to be mapped to an SMB, appearing in windows as a drive, with the added benefit if the SMB is not available, then the files are both still available and folders can be saved to with syncing resuming when the connection is restored. No alert to tell me there was any issue.įollowing this I have resorted to using Windows Sync Centre. So my local and NAS were totally out of whack. This then put me in a situation where I had no idea which files had been saved / edited and which were not.
SYNOLOGY DRIVE SHARESYNC SERVICE STOPPING FULL
This appeared to work fine, showing a full resync, however discovered to my dismay that the files were not actually syncing, rather just showing as synced. This seems to be an ongoing issue with drive and one thats not solved with updates.įollowing a format I tried to re sync a folder that was already on my drive. Cloud drives do not need to do this, unless they detect a change. I managed to improved this by disabling advance integrity checks but still far from ideal. This typically takes hours and cannot understand the need for it.
This uses CPU and drive access (significant amounts), and generally I have 40,000 files which even if they are only placeholders only need syncing, every boot. There are however some issues:ĭrive takes a long time at boot, and every boot to sync (90% CPU usage) I have lots of files on the NAS I would like to access on an adhoc basis, and being able to do this without accessing the SMB share is a godsend. The ability to be able to sync files to the NAS in a 'Onedrive' like manner, and even with the prospect of on demand access (to save space) is one I relish. The principle of synology drive is fantastic.
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