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The Synology comes factory default with 1GB RAM and has a spare 200-pin slot available for expansion. There has been sofar no confirmation what DIMMs work, but I can assure you that if you purchase a 2GB 200-pin 800Mhz DDR2...
To my knowledge, no DiskStation model currently exists where the kernel supports inotify. This represents a huge problem for people who have custom scripts to add multimedia to your DiskStations. While the DiskStations media indexer supports automatic indexing of files...
It does not pay to be impatient. The longest 5 days in a while – fresh off the factory and just arrived from Taiwan: This is probably the first DS1010+ in the country. Noise-levels are acceptable and unlike other people...
The Popcorn Hour C-200 is the most powerful and versatile Networked Media Tank yet and has moved in with us to replace the PS3’s duty of streaming media. The C-200 sports a 667MHz CPU, 512MB RAM (a further 256MB NAND...
The recent release of Synology’s 2.2 beta firmware includes Time Machine support. For all Synology users, my tutorial OS X: Time Machine backup has now really become a piece of cake: Create a shared folder called “TimeMachine” Create a user...
Although still in beta, the new firmware sounds promising. I installed the beta-firmware yesterday and have not noticed anything not working. Surprisingly network transfer is faster (I attribute this to a new version of Samba). The new Media Server supports...
Network response and ping-time are the most important factors when it comes to gaming. In South Africa (and perhaps other countries) the so called “unshaped ADSL access” is extremely expensive (twice as much as normal, shaped access). Axxess DSL has...
If you are one of the many users who have followed my guidelines “OS X: Time Machine backup to Synology DS107+“, I strongly urge you to revisit the article. A number of users reported some issues which require your attention:...
If you have followed my guidelines on how to install Squid, you might have noticed that the assumption was, that your home-user base would not abuse the net. You add a ten-year old on school-holidays and YouTube to the mix...
My article OSX Time Machine backup to Synology DS107+ has been really popular over the last few months. The comments on the posting alone should provide a feel of how well this worked for most of the OSX users. I...
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