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Has anyone used Synology's Cloud Station. What are your thoughts and your experience?

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Anyone?

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most people just build their nas, level 1 techs did a set of videos on how to make your own cloud on their linux channel. here is a review of one 

 

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2 hours ago, GDRRiley said:

most people just build their nas, level 1 techs did a set of videos on how to make your own cloud on their linux channel. here is a review of one 

 

I will take a look at it tonight, thank you. I currently have an older synology and my main file/backup server. I am wanting to have my own cloud. I know my synology can do the cloud station but I don't want to put faith into something that others have not talked about. I saw one bad review of it, but nothing else. 

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ORLY?

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I'm using Syno (xpenology DSM) for last 4 years, what do you need to know?

 

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45 minutes ago, alasak said:

I'm using Syno (xpenology DSM) for last 4 years, what do you need to know?

 

Have you used Cloud Station and if you have, how reliable is it?

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ORLY?

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9 minutes ago, dual290x said:

Have you used Cloud Station and if you have, how reliable is it?

Yes. I'm using more services (VPN, torrent etc..), but CloudStation has been the main reason for using DSM.

I have 20 users using CloudStation for sharing access to collaborate work data (~40GB of data).

CloudStation is easy to setup, maintain, restore accidentally deleted data, client compatibility (Win-Mac-Mobile). 

 

If I remember well, I had just one bigger issue - one user accidentally deleted all data, but we restored them easily by CloudStation itself.

 

But otherwise, 4 years with it, 2 dead HDD (hybrid raid 5 saved the day), 20 users, 10 government projects shared in team and any system issue (only one mentioned earlier.)

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Btw: one big plus agains for example OneDrive for Business is CloudStation don't have problem with length of file name (quite important for us).

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On 7/28/2017 at 7:29 PM, dual290x said:

Has anyone used Synology's Cloud Station. What are your thoughts and your experience?

I've been using it for a few years now and I can't live without it. There were some minor issues with it last year but it's been reliable since then. I run it on 2 Windows VMs and a Windows laptop and have ~42GB (~42K files, 6.8K folders) synced up across all three and my Synology NAS.

 

Anything specific you want to know about it?

-KuJoe

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I also tried some open source alternatives (OwnCloud and SyncThing) but kept going back to Synology's Cloud Station after using the others for a day or two.

-KuJoe

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10 hours ago, alasak said:

Yes. I'm using more services (VPN, torrent etc..), but CloudStation has been the main reason for using DSM.

I have 20 users using CloudStation for sharing access to collaborate work data (~40GB of data).

CloudStation is easy to setup, maintain, restore accidentally deleted data, client compatibility (Win-Mac-Mobile). 

 

If I remember well, I had just one bigger issue - one user accidentally deleted all data, but we restored them easily by CloudStation itself.

 

But otherwise, 4 years with it, 2 dead HDD (hybrid raid 5 saved the day), 20 users, 10 government projects shared in team and any system issue (only one mentioned earlier.)

I read this, and it had me a bit scared about it. Your thoughts? Thank you by the way.

10 hours ago, alasak said:

Btw: one big plus agains for example OneDrive for Business is CloudStation don't have problem with length of file name (quite important for us).

So Cloud Station is picky about file name length?

9 hours ago, KuJoe said:

I've been using it for a few years now and I can't live without it. There were some minor issues with it last year but it's been reliable since then. I run it on 2 Windows VMs and a Windows laptop and have ~42GB (~42K files, 6.8K folders) synced up across all three and my Synology NAS.

 

Anything specific you want to know about it?

I wasn't sure about reliabilty. I really like DSM and prefer it over OMV software that is on my file server. I am looking into xpenology to replace OMV.

Instructions for frustration management:  

1) Sit at desk.   2) Repeatedly slam forehead against desk.

 

I never said I was smart, just smart enough to be dangerous.

 

 

ORLY?

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52 minutes ago, dual290x said:

I read this, and it had me a bit scared about it. Your thoughts? Thank you by the way.

Anything threads from before 2017 can be ignored, it's not even the same software anymore (the original Cloud Station software was replaced with Cloud Station Drive and Cloud Station Backup).

56 minutes ago, dual290x said:

So Cloud Station is picky about file name length?

Windows wouldn't let me create a file with more than 234 characters (including the extension), but Cloud Station synced it up no problem.

 

58 minutes ago, dual290x said:

sure about reliabilty. I really like DSM and prefer it over OMV software that is on my file server. I am looking into xpenology to replace OMV.

I don't have any experience with Xpenology, make sure it's not using an older version of Cloud Station. Like I said, versions from before 2017 had some issues but everything has been solid over the past 7 months.

-KuJoe

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8 hours ago, KuJoe said:

I don't have any experience with Xpenology, make sure it's not using an older version of Cloud Station. Like I said, versions from before 2017 had some issues but everything has been solid over the past 7 months.

Xpenology is the DSM downloaded on your own hardware. However the most stable and support DSM being used right now is 5.2. I have no way of know which version of Cloud Station they are using.

Instructions for frustration management:  

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I never said I was smart, just smart enough to be dangerous.

 

 

ORLY?

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……../,'-,: : : : : ''-,_______,-'': : : : ''-„_____|
……..\: :|: : : : : : : : : : : : : :„: : : : :-,: : : : : : : ?
………',:': : : : : : : : : : : : :,-'__: : : :_',: : : : ;: ,'
……….'-,-': : : : : :___„-: : :'': : ¯''~~'': ': : ~--|'
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5 hours ago, dual290x said:

Xpenology is the DSM downloaded on your own hardware. However the most stable and support DSM being used right now is 5.2. I have no way of know which version of Cloud Station they are using.

Oh, in that case you probably should look elsewhere. DSM 5.2 is missing a lot of good functionality and probably has the same old issues with Cloud Station since it doesn't support the new version.

-KuJoe

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5 hours ago, dual290x said:

Xpenology is the DSM downloaded on your own hardware. However the most stable and support DSM being used right now is 5.2. I have no way of know which version of Cloud Station they are using.

I'm on Xpenology currently in version DSM 5.2-5644 Update 8 and as HW is Core2Duo with 4GB ram, version on CloudStation is 3.2-3501 - No issue at all.

 

DSM 6 I didn't tested yet, cuz I'm for year in Canada and do not have physical access to my HW (only by web/VPN).

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9 hours ago, KuJoe said:

Oh, in that case you probably should look elsewhere. DSM 5.2 is missing a lot of good functionality and probably has the same old issues with Cloud Station since it doesn't support the new version.

Interesting, The only functions I am looking for is the cloud, hibernation, and raid. Thanks.

9 hours ago, alasak said:

I'm on Xpenology currently in version DSM 5.2-5644 Update 8 and as HW is Core2Duo with 4GB ram, version on CloudStation is 3.2-3501 - No issue at all.

 

DSM 6 I didn't tested yet, cuz I'm for year in Canada and do not have physical access to my HW (only by web/VPN).

I have seen where some people got DSM 6.1 running but it doesn't have near the support or hardware support that the 5.2 5644 has.

Thanks.

Instructions for frustration management:  

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I never said I was smart, just smart enough to be dangerous.

 

 

ORLY?

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