#SYNOLOGY DRIVE SERVER VS CLOUD STATION UPGRADE#

For users who stay in DSM 6.2 (a long-term support version), Cloud Station will continue to receive security updates until the end of 2020, so that businesses have sufficient time to plan for an upgrade based on their internal schedules. Both make it the right time for us to combine development resources into one and make Synology Drive an even more powerful solution – not just for file syncing anymore but for all aspects of file serving.īecause of this, Synology Drive will officially take over in the next major DSM release, DSM 7.0, where Cloud Station-related packages, utilities, and mobile app 1 will no longer be supported. Moreover, the release also introduces several highly requested features, including On-demand Sync and scheduled backup from Cloud Station users. With the release of Synology Drive 2.0, the suite has been extended to cover every part of Cloud Station’s key functionalities. Synology Drive 2.0 suite Ready to take over As for businesses with offices spread across different sites around the globe, they can also realize cross-office file syncing and sharing to connect distant employees in multiple office locations.įig. South Africa Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB) is among them that adopted a file collaboration solution to help them streamline workflow. A growing number of businesses are starting to build an on-premises file server that can further realize anywhere file access and even syncing between a centralized NAS and multiple clients. Get everyone on the same page – literallyįeaturing one portal for file access, syncing, and content collaboration, Synology Drive was introduced to the market earlier last year to cope with the growing need for file collaboration. Nowadays teamwork requires higher levels of communication, and you may often find yourself having to edit the same document with multiple colleagues. But now, there emerges a growing need – collaboration. In response to traditional file servers’ disadvantage of meeting the rising demand for cross-device/off-site synchronization and mobile data access, Synology fills the gap with the advent of Cloud Station. To bring a more streamlined user experience and business-ready file server solution, Cloud Station has evolved into Synology Drive, which incorporates the main features of its predecessor with additional functions waiting for you to explore. Having served over 1.6 million offices and families since its debut 6 years ago, Cloud Station developed many advanced features to adapt to users’ various needs, allowing you to seamlessly access and sync files across NAS servers, PCs, and mobile devices. Reflecting our core belief that data should be accessible anywhere, Cloud Station offers a private cloud solution allowing you to instantly sync files across multiple platforms while retaining historical versions of important files for recovery purposes. Be sure to follow me on Twitter at on Facebook at /DavidGewirtz, on Instagram at /DavidGewirtz, and on YouTube at /DavidGewirtzTV.Surpassing Cloud Station in every way imaginable You can follow my day-to-day project updates on social media. In a future article, I'll take you through my entire storage architecture. In fact, I'm backing up the Dropbox and Google Drive data to Amazon Drive, so that in case something happens with one cloud service, I have a backup on the others. Amazon Drive allows for unlimited storage use, so I'm able to keep a bunch of revisions. I'm also using Synology's Hyper Backup to back up other shares to Amazon Drive. But once they're updated, changes made locally on a share will be available in the cloud within a short time. I'm uploading about 160GB per day, so it will take a week or so for my Dropbox and Google Drive accounts to fully sync. Now (once all the files sync, which can take a while), you'll have local shares and cloud files. You can also sync multiple remote cloud directories to a local share.

Synology drive server vs cloud station