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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

With many backup options in the market, some users might select to implement specific backup software from companies such as Veeam. Veeam Backup and Replication is a software-based backup and recovery solution that allows you to protect a wide variety of workloads, allowing you to automate, schedule, and monitor your backups on one platform. It is typically paired with a hardware appliance that would act as a backup repository to store backup data.  As Veeam Backup & Replication platform is not tied down to any particular storage option, users can select a backup repository of their choice, provided that it

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,

When you search for something and the results appear almost instantly, you might find yourself wondering, "How did they do that?" Achieving low-latency response times for what can seem like an endless array of possibilities is no simple task, but it's something that our software engineers strive to accomplish every day. Let's take a closer look at what makes Synology Drive function with such efficiency and how it provides you with lightning-fast results. Building a Foundation for Scale and Reliability Before an application can be fast, it must be built on a solid foundation. In the software world, this means

When you effortlessly scroll through tens of thousands of photos in Synology Photos or share project images with team members, the experience feels seamless. But have you ever wondered how the backend system works to deliver such smooth performance? Think of Synology Photos' backend as a sophisticated factory, with its core being an efficient pipeline called the "Task Center." Every second, thousands of tasks flow through this pipeline: phone backups, photo similarity calculations, file information processing, thumbnail generation, face and object recognition, geographic location updates, and more. In such a busy and complex system, how does Synology Photos ensure precise

At Synology, we rely on MailPlus to support over 1,500 employees and handle more than 170,000 emails each day. We closely monitor its uptime to ensure it delivers the reliability we demand in a production environment. Over time, MailPlus has consistently delivered 99.99% service uptime. For comparison, a typical SLA of 99.9% allows for up to 43 minutes of downtime per month, while 99.99% reduces that to about 4 minutes per month, or less than 1 minute per week. This level of availability is the result of deliberate engineering decisions, especially the implementation of MailPlus High Availability (HA). Unlike traditional

To capture your child's brightest smile, you might press the shutter ten times in a row. To achieve the perfect sunset tone, you may save five filtered versions. While modern photography allows us to record beautiful moments, it also makes our photo albums cluttered and hard to manage. This scenario is familiar to us all. But an interesting question follows: when we talk about "organizing similar photos," what exactly defines "similar"? Is it a series of sunset shots from the same scene with slightly different sun positions? Is it the same composition with one person added or removed? Or is

In the digital world, not all letters are created equal. You've likely felt this, even if you couldn't name the problem. Perhaps you're a designer putting the final touches on a masterpiece in macOS. You name it something perfectly descriptive, like Project Árvore - Final Proposal (ü).psd. You copy it to a USB drive or upload it to a generic cloud folder to share with a client using a Windows PC. Then you see it—the filename distorted beyond recognition, or worse, duplicated into near-clones—and a quiet panic creeps in, and you wonder, did I do something wrong? The answer to the

Incremental backups are a fundamental component of efficient data protection strategies, allowing organizations to conserve bandwidth and compute resources by capturing only the changes made since the last backup. While this methodology is widely implemented, the approach to storing these incremental changes plays a critical role in determining the overall efficiency, reliability, and performance of a backup system. Traditional methods Conventional backup solutions, such as Veeam, typically operate by establishing an initial full backup followed by a sequence of incremental backups. During a restore operation, the system must reconstruct the recovery image by merging the full backup with each subsequent