TITAM - Technical issues that affected me

These drives work fine on an RS2416RP+ running DSM 6.2, no issues. Don't whine they're "surveillance" drives, blah blah.  They're hard drives, they work like you expect hard drives to work. I don't know about DSM 7.x or newer NAS units, but I see no reason why they wouldn't work on them as well. That's all. [Update]: Over a year now, no issues whatsoever.

HTTPS is already the de facto standard.  With Google Chrome now shaming non-HTTPS websites , little guys/gals like me running legacy insecure web servers are now on the wrong side of the line and risk losing business / traffic. Fortunately, Synology DSM 6.x has a baked-in solution using the free certificate services from Let's Encrypt.  It looks scary at first, but it's very easy once you know all the steps.  Things to know: -  It's perfectly free, no cost.  -  It works with dynamic DNS services.  You do not have to renew the security certificate if your IP changes. -  It works with virtual hosts. -  It is maintenance-free, as it auto-renews itself. -  DON'T read the "Get Started" information at Let's Encrypt.  It will just confuse the hell out of you.  -  Did I mention it is free? This article assumed you have Web Station set up and your website(s) are running correctly.  If not, you obviously have ot...

Contrary to much of the information out there, setting up folder-level permissions on a Synology DiskStation or RackStation is not actually too hard. Apparently previous versions of DSM didn't actually support this, or at least, not very well.  You could only set user access to an entire shared folder (root folder) but not to the subfolders within it.  (Unless, maybe, you knew your command-line interface (CLI) or had Windows Active Directory capabilities.)  But DSM 5.2 seems to support it OK. Note that DSM uses the term "Shared Folder" to refer to the root of the shared volume.  Many people would refer to this as a "root folder" or a "shared volume", but Synology has chosen to call it a "Shared Folder".  (Awesomeness....) You can obviously set up different Shared Folders (root folders) for various purposes, if you want to.  Some people are in a situation where this doesn't work.  Like, maybe, you want to share your files with vario...