Rethink Storage
Solutions for Backup, Storage and File Management

File Sharing

DSM provides fast and secure ways to share your critical digital assets. With File Station, you can share files on your Synology NAS to any one, and customize access permissions for optimal security. File Station makes it easy to share files across multiple platforms — whether it's Windows, Mac, and Linux computers or mobile devices.

File Station

Your versatile file manager

• Share files easily and safely
  With one link, you can share files or request file uploads from others. This customizable link allows you share it to specific users, set a password, and specify its validity period.
• Access files from anywhere
  Explore and organize files using a mobile phone or tablet (Android, iOS and Windows Phone support). Files can even upload to your DiskStation or download to your devices directly.
• Centralize file access
  With remote folders and public cloud storage (Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive) mounted to File Station, you can access all remote data as if stored locally.

Windows, Mac & Linux

DSM comes with comprehensive support of networking protocols — FTP, SMB2, SMB3 (encrypted), AFP, NFS, and WebDAV — and provides seamless file sharing across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. 
The Recycle Bin feature supported on AFP, SMB, File Station, and WebDAV, allows you to flexibly decide when to permanently remove the files, according to the different rules.

Mac Finder Integration

With the in-depth integration of Mac Finder, you can use Mac Finder to quickly search the content of indexed documents, photos, and more within mounted folders on your Synology NAS.

Presto File Server

Presto File Server transfers massive files through long distance in high-speed by making the best use of your purchased bandwidth, transforming your Synology NAS to a speedy file transfer portal.

• Speedy
  The SITA technology ensures maximum usage of Internet bandwidth by minimizing the impact high latency and packet loss rate have on file transfer.
• Secure
  Presto protects your credentials with TLS/TCP and secures file transfer with AES-128 encryption.
• Simple
  Presto features intuitive user experience with full support of Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.

Universal Search

Universal Search provides fast, accurate, and global search into your Synology NAS. With one click, it searches through your multimedia files, DSM applications, help articles, and file contents in Synology Note Station and Synology Office, offering quick preview of matched items at the same time.

FTP, WebDAV, CalDAV & CardDAV

All businesses nowadays face a high demand for fast, global, and stable file exchange with customers and work partners. DSM is your ideal file server solution that provides unified support of FTP, WebDAV, CalDAV, and CardDAV services.

Data Backup

Handy tips for protecting your files

Keep your data safe and sound with these backup and security solutions

Hard drives fail. Computers get infected by viruses. Mobile devices break or disappear. Ask yourself, if one of these accidents happened to you, would your files be safe? Be it your home videos or business documents, your data deserves a great protection solution, so your files — your memories — stay with you forever.

Regularly back up your devices

With its large and scalable storage capacity, Synology NAS is the logical choice for backing up files on all your devices, whether it’s a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer, or mobile devices. You can back up specific folders on your computer in real time with Cloud Station, or take advantage of native support for Apple’s Time Machine, and other third-party backup applications. If anything happens to your devices, your files will be safe on Synology NAS.

Back up your data to an off-site location

When it comes to protecting important files, businesses can never be too safe. Unexpected events like thievery or a natural disaster can wipe out your data infrastructure, leaving your business paralyzed. To prevent such situations, Synology NAS lets you easily back up data to an off-site destination, such as another Synology NAS or rsync-compatible servers.

Store archived data in the cloud

For home users or small businesses, purchasing dedicated equipment for off-site backup might be impractical. For such users, Synology NAS makes it easy to back up data directly to various cloud storage services, such as Amazon S3, Glacier, Microsoft Azure, OneDrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox. Keep commonly used files on your Synology NAS for guaranteed fast access, while archiving old files in the cloud.

Manage drives and mirror data with SHR

No matter the brand or model, there’s always a chance a drive might fail, possibly resulting in permanent data loss. For models with two or more hard drive bays, Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR) storage technology automatically manages storage capacity and mirrors your data across each drive. That way, your files remain readily accessible, even if a drive breaks or dies.

Defend yourself with modern security tools

Your data should be safe and private — no questions asked. Because the Internet is full of prying eyes, Synology NAS is equipped with robust security tools to prevent malicious attacks and make sure your data doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. 

Close security gaps with Security Advisor

For most people, the world of network and data security is a confusing place. Thankfully, Synology's Security Advisor wizard is here to help. By automatically analyzing your system settings, password strength, and network preferences, Security Advisor informs you of potential security holes and locks down your Synology NAS. Spend less time managing security, and more time getting things done.

Snapshot and Replication

Snapshot Replication provides schedulable, near-instantaneous data protection, ensuring business data in shared folders, and virtual machines in iSCSI LUNs, remain safe and available in the event of disaster.

Flexible Extended Replication Topology

Flexible replication topology for different business structures

Self-service recovery

Recovery can be intuitively done with File Station or Windows File Explorer when  the operators are with eligible privilege, without the intervention of system administrator.

Disaster recovery for virtualization environments

Application-aware snapshots for virtualized workloads running on VMware and Hyper-V ensures data consistency of virtual machines. In addition, the support of VMware Site Recovery Manager simplifies the recovery process by allowing to start disaster recovery directly via VMware vCenter Server.

Flexible retention and replication methods

Snapshot Replication provides flexible retention and export/import methods for your replications to save your time, space, and bandwidth

Powerful administration tools

In addition to the snapshot protection, Snapshot Replication also provides great tools for system administrators to shorten the time required for actual failover and monitor each replication task effectively.

High Availability

Unexpected service disruptions can cost your company big as well as cause logistical headaches for your IT department. Synology High Availability (SHA) alleviates these issues and delivers a hassle-free method to mirror data and maximize your service uptime. SHA is available on select Synology NAS.

How does it work?

SHA combines two Synology NAS servers into one high-availability cluster (or HA cluster). One server assumes the role of active server, while the other becomes a standby passive server. The active server handles all data requests and services, while everything is continuously replicated to the passive server. This provides a complete hardware and data redundancy solution in case of unforeseen accidents. Watch the video to learn more about SHA.

Real-time protection

With the real-time data mirroring mechanisms, SHA makes sure your data is safely stored on another physical unit. This real-time replication ensures that in the event of hardware failure, all data can be accessible soon after.

Automatic fail-over

The two servers communicate via a Heartbeat connection. When the active server becomes unavailable, the passive server automatically kicks in and takes over all services without human intervention. The smooth transition ensures maximized service uptime so the clients won't even notice something went wrong.

Robust HA solution

Synology High Availability makes the cluster robust and stable for resource-demanding services, such as storage for virtualization. With real-time data replication, the passive server can resume the majority of running services whenever needed.

• Virtualization ready
  Synology NAS is an ideal target for accessing virtual machines through iSCSI. SHA ensures stored virtual machines are constantly available. Certified for VMware, Citrix, and Windows Server, a Synology NAS also benefits from a user-friendly LUN manager for rapid creation, cloning, or removal.
• Highly available application server
  Intuitive application serving is an essential part of the Synology experience. Whether it's file services, web service, or Cloud Station, most Synology packages and built-in services are compatible with SHA to maximize uptime when hardware failure occurs.

Additional features

The user-friendly design reduces the effort required for setting up a powerful HA cluster. The quorum server further enhances the stability when the passive server needs to take over the services.

• Hassle-free installation and maintenance
  The intuitive user interface makes SHA super simple to set up and get running. With its handy, built-in management tools, you can easily monitor the HA cluster and perform maintenance, without needing to acquire additional technical knowledge.
• Quorum server ready
  The timing for the passive server to take over the main operation is critical. Quorum Server plays the key role in reducing the occurrence of split-brain effectively, thus maximizing service continuity and data consistency.

iSCSI Storage

Synology provides storage solutions for virtual environments of high performance and reliability. These solutions ensure the continuity and efficiency of business for large and demanding enterprises.

Certified storage

Synology storage solution supports most of the productivity-enhancing virtualization solutions, such as VMware® vSphere™, Microsoft® Hyper-V®, Citrix® XenServer™, and OpenStack Cinder.

High performance

With a small upfront investment, businesses can benefit from significant server performance enhancement. With the SSD cache write mode, data is first written on the SSD then flushed back to hard drives afterward. A single SSD cache mounted volume can consist of up to 12 SSDs, so you can simply accelerate read and write speeds by adding additional SSD cache on heavy load application servers that require high random IOPS.

Advanced VMware support

Synology NAS is officially certified for VMware vSphere 6.5 and VAAI support. Full VAAI support includes Hardware Assisted Locking (ATS), Block Zero, Full Copy, and Thin Provisioning while VAAI NAS enables Full Clone and Reserved Space.

VAAI benefits

• Faster VM performance is achieved by offloading cycles from ESXi to the storage array.
• More effective utilization of storage arrays delivered by virtual machines with VAAI support.
• Better flexibility when deploying and migrating VMs.
• Higher storage performance and efficiency with VMFS-5 file system.
• Smoother access and management with load balancing automation in Storage vMotion.

Windows ODX integration

This cutting-edge technology removes the middle man and allows your Windows server to offload data transfers to DiskStation without your data needing go through the server host. By using ODX, the speed for data manipulation increases dramatically, and since the data transfer is offloaded, the CPU usage of the host server and the network bandwidth utilization shrink to minimum values, which allows the server to handle more important tasks.

High reliability

Ensures business continuity.

Mail Server

MailPlus

The MailPlus suite allows your business to set up a secure, reliable, and private mail server while giving your employees a web-based client for managing emails and boosting productivity.

Intuitive & Powerful MailPlus

MailPlus is an intuitive and powerful webmail client for organizing emails, checking company address books, and sharing mailboxes with work partners.

Integration with Collaboration Packages

MailPlus is seamlessly integrated with Synology Chat and Synology Calendar, making itself a hub of task communications and scheduling. With the Chat and Calendar plug-ins, you can dive into project discussions and add emails to your to-do list right from MailPlus.

Reliable & Intuitive MailPlus Server

MailPlus Server transforms your Synology NAS into a reliable and intuitive mail server, making server management fast, intuitive, and hassle-free.

Productivity

Office

The professional editing tools offered by Office help you create work documents and spreadsheets with ease and efficiency, while real-time synchronization and saving allows your team to achieve solid productivity and ensure data security at the same time.

Generate work documents with powerful application

Document
Organize your writing with the handy editing tools, enrich your content with the function of image altering and shaping, collaborate with your team to spark everyone's wisdom, and provide feedback for coworkers through the revising mode.

Spreadsheet
With built-in formulas, vivid charts, and conditional formatting options, common spreadsheet tasks such as creating sales reports, calculating travel expenses, and compiling to-do lists become just a piece of cake, providing great convenience in not only the workplace but your day-to-day life as well.

Easy collaboration

Real-time syncing
Multiple team members can work simultaneously on one document and interact by leaving comments to boost productivity and achieve effective collaboration.

Immediate communication
Chat plug-in allows you to conduct quick discussion while working on documents, and with the notification features, you'll never miss any important updates.

Compatible with Excel and Word

Excel and Word files can be converted into spreadsheets and documents on Synology Office, and vice versa.

Synology Spreadsheet supports 300+ formulas and a wide range of format options, enabling you to use existing Excel files without any hassle.

Data privacy and security

We ensure the security and privacy of your brainstorming achievements.