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At Home

In today's networked home environment, information is often fragmented among the local computers such as family vacation pictures stored on the laptop, and cannot be accessed from another computer because the laptop is at work. Even worse, it is difficult to share pictures to extended families for friends. And those precious photos should have a backed up as well.

Synology Servers provide a centralized location to quickly store, organize and publish photos or video clips online. After users place photos in the Synology Server, the Server automatically convert, resize, and index the photo for immediate viewing on the Internet. Friends and family can quickly begin to reminisce about the photos. Using Synology’s Photo Station avoids dependency on third party services or limits in capacity.

To protect users from data lost, such as the lost of their recent vacation trip, the Synology Data Replicator is a powerful solution. Once Data Replicator is setup on the computer, it will always backup when the computer is connected to the network, ensuring that all treasured memories are protected on the Synology Server.

The integrated Download Manager allows users to assign download tasks to the Synology Server. This result in effortless file downloads, without the need to leave a computer on to perform this task.

With Synology’s quick publishing Photo Station, never-forget Backup, and integrated download manager, these abilities allow home users to casually use their notebook computers while Synology Servers are working hard in the background manage and secure their valuable data. The Synology Server is ideal smart server for home!

More Features:

With terabyte disks available, the storage space is less of a concern. Users can choose single disk server, or two-disk server, or four-disk server. All these servers offer rich and easy-to-use functions to maximize the data usage. More functions and features are list here, and details can be found in production descriptions:

General features

Quiet, small footprint, and stylish. Synology Servers are designed for human environments and interaction, and it does not require the Synology Server to be placed in a machine room.
Energy efficient. Synology Servers are based on power-saving SoC chip with disk hibernation; this results in great power savings, upwards to 80% when compared to a standard PC Server.
Redundant disk protection. All Synology multi-drive Servers offer RAID functions to help protect against hard disk failure. Should a disk fail, users can still access their data on the Synology Server.
RAID disk hibernation. All Synology RAID servers support RAID disks hibernation. Most servers are active less than 50% of the time, but they have to be ready to serve 24x7. Disk hibernation not only saves energy, but also prolongs disk life expectancy.
Great Mac support. All Synology Servers support AFP Protocol with AFP Login support; allowing Mac and Windows users to share their data in a manner which is familiar.
Easy to replace disk. If a RAID disk has crashed, the administrator of the Synology Server will be notified via email, or from the audio and visual indicators of the Synology Server. Sending the system back to the original manufacture is not necessary, as it only requires ten minutes to shut down the system, replace the disk, and power it back up.
Free software upgrade for new features. Synology is constantly adding new features to their servers; users may elect to upgrade their system for free when available firmware is released for their system.

Personal/home features

Photo Station: Automatically resizes the photo files and converts video clips to publishable formats. Once photo files are stored on the Synology Server, it will automatically prepare the files for publishing on the Internet.
Audio Station: allows let users listen to their music collection directly from Synology server through attached USB speakers (please see the tested speakers). A great add-on for studio environments, no need to use a regular PC in order to enjoy music. The Audio Station also plays Internet Radio and iPod sources, and can be controlled by wireless Synology Remote.
Download Station: allows users download information from internet directly to Synology Servers without PC.
Multimedia server: allows users to stream their multimedia collection directly from Synology Servers to Digital Media Adaptors without a PC.
iTunes server: allows users to manage and play their music from the Synology Server directly to Apple’s iTunes Media Client.

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