Synology DSM 5.0 Reviewed

Updated on Feb 2015.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/32490-synology-dsm-50-reviewed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amkdWd153u0

Update: DSM 5.1 is now available. The latest version is DSM 5.1- Build 5022 Update 2. One major new feature is the inclusion of Microsoft Onedrive in Cloud Sync. This joins Dropbox, GoogleDrive, and Baidu. Moreover Microsoft will release a major update to its maligned OneDrive service to coincide with its Windows 10 release in the summer 2015. Currently, there is no official Onedrive client for Linux from Microsoft. Synology NAS operating system, Disk Station Manager, is Linux-based. As such, the Onedrive app for Synology is created by Synology itself using the APIs released by Microsoft.

There is another app on the DSM called Cloud Station. This is a completely different app than the Cloud Sync. Cloud Station syncs designated folders on computers including handheld devices under the mobile app DS Cloud. (I wish Synology would reduce the number of names for its apps to avoid confusion so instead of calling the iOS app DS Cloud, it should be Cloud Station for iOS). DS Cloud app enables you to sync a folder on your computer to your iPhone using the Disk Station as a middleman. It is sort of like Dropbox except the data is not stored in any cloud server like Dropbox.