![]() ![]() They are supposed to keep me logged in, but I continue to have to re-login on my own. It’s great that Synology has so many mobile applications, but these are buggy as well. They either ignore bugs or introduce new ones with every release, it seems. Cloud Station creates conflict files all the time, it often freezes Finder, etc. For example, iWork files are treated as folders, rather than files, and the internal package contents get updated separately, causing iWork to constantly ask you to re-save the document during use. I have reported these bugs repeatedly, and they still don’t get fixed. For example, how about that time when everyone found bitcoin miners running on their boxes? Their CloudStation solution is great for sync’ing files, but there are still loads of bugs with it, especially on OS X. There have been some major security bugs with Synology. I’ve had my DS1513+ since it was first released, and while it has definitely done its job, there are some things that bother me about it. It’s easy to set up, and Synology Hybrid RAID is auto-expanding and very cool, a la Drobo.They have a suite of applications that can run on DSM.Having a commercial product would keep me from being able to constantly open the NAS up and mess with it. I chose Synology for a multitude of reasons I pondered the options for a long time, and my final decision came down to buying a Synology device or building my own device with FreeNAS. I also wanted to have some kind of home theater strategy with my ripped media. Even before the Snowden controversy, I didn’t love the idea of my files being stored in a cloud like Dropbox. I had been thinking about getting a network attached storage system for years.
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