DiskStation Manager 3.ane

As experience has taught me, possibly the most important aspect of any NAS device is its configuration software. The Synology Deejay Station Manager 3.1 is an impressive piece of software that volition permit yous do nigh annihilation y'all'd expect.

One of the suite's coolest applications is called Download Station 2, which allows you to turn the DS2411+ into a 24/seven download center for BitTorrent, FTP, HTTP, eMule, NZB news server, RapidShare and MegaUpload. Fifty-fifty shutting down your computer won't affect transfers, as files are downloaded directly to the DS2411+.

The eMule download service is integrated into the Download Station 2 web interface and you tin simply connect to whatever eMule server on the list and start searching right abroad. You can besides set the upload/download rates and the maximum connections in the eMule settings. For batch downloads, you can assign multiple tasks by entering more than one ed2k links at one time, or simply upload a text file containing multiple links.

Download Station two as well provides a torrent search function that makes it unproblematic to locate and download torrents. Additionally the RSS Feed feature makes it like shooting fish in a barrel for heavy torrent users to go along track of the latest releases.

Another cool application is Photo Station 4, which comes with advanced photograph wall and prototype flow browsing options. In addition, the flexibility of photo theme customization, visitors' privilege settings to view or upload photos, virtual albums of recently uploaded images, RSS feeds, and a 3D photo browsing of Cooliris, brand this the ultimate photo sharing eye on the Internet. Also, the newly-added Google Maps integration allows yous to geotag your photos and trace your path.

The new Storage Managing director offers iSCSI back up and has been certified past VMware, Citrix and Hyper-V, allowing it to tackle the major virtualization servers. Another great Storage Manager characteristic is called Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR), which optimizes volume size when combining hard disks of varying capacities into an array.

When prepare as the "Standard" book blazon in the Storage Managing director, SHR provides 1 to 2 difficult disks fault-tolerance of information protection. It can be expanded to an optimal volume infinite when larger or additional hard disks are inserted into the assortment.

As y'all might expect, the DS2411+ is a master at backing upwards information and has many such options. The local backup allows data to exist copied from the DS2411+ to an external hard drive using i of the USB 2.0 ports. This enables quick and easy backups of any data located on the device.

Yous can also perform a network backup, which allows you to back up files and information from ane Disk Station to another (or other rsync-compatible servers) over a network. With the Encrypted Network Backup option, users can encrypt data when a backup chore is being candy, so sensitive information volition not be exposed to uninvited guests.

Besides the mandatory backup functions, the extra software features can certainly come up in handy fifty-fifty if you lot don't plan to use all of them -- and you probably won't. We particularly liked Photograph Station 4, Download Station 2 and Web Station.