Tempted To Get A Synology

Epyon · 25 Mar 2013 at 10:40

Morning y'all,

Not sure if this is the right forum area but anyway here is my situation.

I am tempted to buy a synology after my old laptop which was a download server died on me last week. I was just wondering if anyone has one here.

I'm mainly interested in the backup functionality (both to an external drive and on-board one), compression and how easy it is to add new hard drives and not have to restart. Lastly can I isntall Chrome or a decent browser to use for HTTP downloads?

Thanks for your help guys!

Epyon · 25 Mar 2013 at 12:30

Sounds good, any others?

Any Synology owners?

Epyon · 25 Mar 2013 at 13:01

One of the selling points to me is the ability to add more storage and have it rebuild the RAID without having to reformat. At least a colleague of mine says it can do that. I'm not update to date on these things.

I'm not a fan of torrents at all, I know NewsGroups work on it but I'd have thought a simple no frills browser would be available. Mainly for file sharing sites if needed.

Epyon · 25 Mar 2013 at 16:53

Thanks guys, as always more information is appreciated.

My colleague is going to attempt to download via a free file sharing site but doesn't think it will be possible given that you generally have a timer and capta etc.

I guess this will be what inspires me to go forward and use newgroups again.