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It also gives you the option to backup your Photoroll from the iPhone itself onto your NAS drive, thus potentially avoiding Apple iCloud confusion and making it even harder to loose those dodgy selfies from your night out.

Clean and uncluttered, it has a variety of handy functions such as downloading the photos you view to a cache so you can view them at a later date, and it also allows the usual raft of sharing/ emailing options.

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A free download from the iTunes app store, DS photo+ allows you seamless access to the photos folder on your system. When using the iOS apps, it is evident that a fair amount of time and thought has gone into making them work effortlessly. Next up we installed apps from the package center, Antivirus Essential, iTunes server, Photo station, Audio station, Video station, Cloud station and Media Server. and 5 minutes later it was up and running.

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A few setup steps with username and password setup along with the usual raft of options and updates etc. The real magic of getting this system up and running is in the Diskstation Manager (DSM) software, which is available through a web browser. This also means that the disks are easily swapped out while in use – hot swappable – but the average home user is unlikely to want to do that often.

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Although this NAS requires the user to install their own drives, it's made super-simple by the easy click-to-insert and lock system, so no tools are required. To the rear of the unit there are two USB 3 ports for fast transfers to the NAS drive along with a further two USB 2 ports and the network port. The drives are accessed via the front panel, which uses four rubber grommets to hold it in place snugly. All this is powered by an Dual Intel Atom 1.6GHz chip boasting a 1Gb RAM and Synology's own operating system, Diskstation Manager. It is a four bay NAS, with power button, USB and 4 disk lights and a status light to the right hand side.

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You can protect on-appliance data as the Snapshot Replication app runs manual and scheduled snapshots of Btrfs volumes, while the Hyper Backup app manages all local, remote, Rsync, cloud and iSCSI LUN backups.First impressions of the Synology DS415play are that it's a fairly stylish unit (for a black box) with a compact design and front bay access. The appliance’s high capacity makes it an ideal backup vault, and DSM 7 offers an impressive range of apps to support this, with the slick Active Backup for Business (ABB) protecting data on Windows workstations and servers as well as VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines.

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The overhauled Storage Manager app is even more informative, and an advantage of using Synology’s storage devices is that it can update their firmware automatically. The DSM 7 operating system is pleasing to use and its revamped web console provides easy access to all features. When you run the web console quick-start wizard, it will block you from using the default administrator username, and you can tighten up access controls further with 2FA. Synology takes security seriously, and the appliance has a separate gigabit port for placing management traffic on a private network. For testing, we loaded four 8TB HAT5300 disks, which were accepted without any issues, but use uncertified drives and Synology will decline to provide support. You can use the slot to improve your network outlook further too, and the appliance supports a good range of 10GbE adapters from Synology and Intel.īe careful with your choice of storage devices, though, as the DS3622xs+ is one of Synology’s enterprise models and only supports Synology’s HAT5300 hard disks and SAT5200 SSDs. The DS3622xs+ lacks internal M.2 SSD slots but its PCIe expansion bay accepts Synology’s E10M20-T1 dual M.2 NVMe SSD card, which adds an extra 10GbE port to the mix. A notable change is that the Infiniband expansion ports on its predecessor have been replaced with mini-SAS HD ports that support two DX1222 12-bay desktop units. Stepping up as a timely successor to the elderly DS3617xsII, the DS3622xs+ has a speedier 6-core Intel Xeon D-1531 CPU, although the base 16GB of ECC DDR4 memory remains the same, as does the maximum 48GB.