In essence it consists of a box with two 3TB hard drives and some software.
The two hard drives can be used in series to give 6TB of storage space or connected to work in parallel as a raid. Any files sent to it are stored on the first drive. Its internal software then makes an exact copy on the second drive. What use is this method of operation? Well, if one hard drive fails there is still a complete record of the files sent to it. Replace the faulty drive and its software sets about copying everything from the good drive to the new one so we are back to two copies of everything.
I use it to store my photos, videos and music files. As I had run out of new ideas for my weekly WidsMob Montage puzzle photos I was able to search through the NAS and pick out some old photos to use over the next few weeks. I raided my raid!
The Synology is connected to my wired LAN (local area network).
File transfer speeds can top 400Mb/s on long video files.
A great bit of kit, how I wish I were organised enough to use one. I can't even find stuff on the Transcend and often struggle on my desk top.
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