#Synology cloud station backup for mac upgrade#
With DSM 7 they bring a new drive upgrade function that if you have an open drive bay you can put the drive that you want to upgrade to into the NAS and it will clone the drive that is to be replaced onto the new drive, reducing the risk of stressing the remaining drives. This has always had IT managers clench a little if you are running in a single disk redundancy as this would leave the array vulnerable if any drive failed during the re-silver process. Until now if you wanted to upgrade a drive in your Synology, you would need to fail the drive and re-silver the array. One of the greatest improvements is the way DSM handles drive replacement.
#Synology cloud station backup for mac windows#
Also, 2FA supporting FIDO2 – This enables things like hardware security keys, Windows Hello and macOS TouchID. DSM 7 promises many new functions and enhancements coming in 202 including the addition of a smartphone-based Secure sign-in app. The focus on Synology DSM 7 is to expand the Usability, Reliability, Performance, and Scalability. As an IT security professional, I was pleased to see them make mention of their Bug Bounty program. Synology Disk Station Manager has been evolving steadily while integrating new features and most importantly embracing industry-standard security and performance enhancements. We have been reviewing and enjoying Synology products for years with our hats off to the DSM, which is still one of the user-friendliest OS out there for NAS devices. Though the company does offer other products such as routers and its own line of SSDs. Primarily known for creating NAS devices with a focus on the home, small and medium offices.
Synology has been around for 20 years now. They mainly covered Synology DSM 7.0, Hybrid Cloud, their new Data Backup strategy and changes to photo management.
The company is teasing us with some great updates and gives us some promise for 2021. This includes the annual Synology live event, Synology 2021 AND BEYOND. With all that is going on in the world – many if not all events are now online.