[Liverpool] Synology NAS advice

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 05/02/19 16:00, Andrew Bates via Liverpool wrote:
> Hey Seb, I might be a bit out of date here but the last I looked into 
> these they were fairly proprietary and a pain in the proverbial to sort 
> out if there’s a problem.
> 
> As such, I scrubbed them off my potential NAS purchase list.

Thank you Andrew - that's what I remembered about them as well. But the 
client has just bought it recently at the advice of the third party, so 
we'll have to try and make use of it, at least for a while.


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> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 14:34, Sebastian Arcus via Liverpool 
> <liverpool at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:liverpool at mailman.lug.org.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello all,
> 
>     It does look like there will be no talk tomorrow - but I'm sure we
>     won't
>     be short on topics of conversation - as usual!
> 
>     On a different topic, does anybody here have anything to do with
>     Synology NAS's? I haven't had reason to use them as I normally deploy a
>     Linux server, but a client has one installed by their previous IT
>     support people, and I'm trying to get my head around it. It is a DS218j
>     model. To me it seems a bit slow and clunky in terms of performance -
>     even serving files or browsing directories on the internal network. Is
>     that what they are supposed to be like? Any other notes on their
>     foibles
>     or quirks, if you've dealt with one?
> 
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