Reliability

Authored by Yi-Lin Zhuo, Senior Manager at Synology leading the Quality Assurance teams responsible for Synology’s product releases. Today, well over ten million Synology systems are actively in-use around the world, each holding an average of tens if not hundreds of terabytes of data. That actually puts the global Synology fleet on par with many public clouds. Behind every one of those systems is someone who depends on it: a business protecting years of financial records, a hospital archiving patient data, a creative studio safeguarding irreplaceable project files. When we release an update, there’s a massive responsibility for us to

In a 24/7 NAS environment, caching SSDs face relentless random I/O workloads that consumer-grade benchmarks fail to represent. Unlike desktops or client systems, NAS caching involves continuous small-block read/write activity under concurrent access, placing heavy demands on both sustained performance and endurance. To meet these challenges, Synology M.2 NVMe SSDs are designed not only for performance consistency, but also for enterprise-grade endurance and seamless system integration, ensuring reliable cache acceleration across long-term deployments. Uncovering true SSD performance and longevity Despite these real-world demands, SSD product datasheets often highlight impressive peak performance figures and high TBW ratings. The problem is that

In July 2025, Microsoft issued an advisory warning stating that a SharePoint vulnerability had been discovered and was actively being exploited. More than 9,000 organizations worldwide using SharePoint Server have been affected by this security breach. Attackers used server-side privileges to tamper with the machine keys and bypassed authentication methods in order to carry out the attacks. SharePoint is a core system for many companies, and if compromised, not only will sensitive company data be leaked, but the entire business process might be paralyzed. This incident highlights the need to reevaluate and optimize existing data protection strategies. Only a comprehensive,