#Synology drive linux update

Synology also offers users a slew of free mobile apps allowing for easy access of their NAS wherever there is an Internet connection. It also comes with several applications for home users and multimedia enthusiasts, including apps that catalog and stream media to various devices. DSM is a Linux-based operating system that is used on all of Synology’s DiskStation and RackStation units (RackStations are rackmounted NAS devices that typically have more compute power, memory, and capacity than their DiskStation counterparts).ĭSM comes with several applications one would expect to find on a NAS, including file sharing, centralized backup, RAID storage, and virtual storage. All the updates have been free of charge. Synology has since regularly updated their OS, with major updates happening once or twice a year. The following year the company debuted its first DiskStation (their desktop NAS devices) running DSM. Synology was founded in 2000 and began its research on DSM in 2003.

#Synology drive linux update

Now that Synology has released a major update to its DSM with 6.0 and up, we decided to take a closer look at the OS, all of its main apps, and what updates have come along. Though we’ve reviewed numerous NAS devices from Synology, as well as a few of their applications (Surveillance Station and Cloud Sync), we had yet to actually take a deeper look into the OS itself. Many of us here have used, or currently use DSM on either a professional or personal level. At StorageReview we tend to talk highly of Synology’s operating system, DiskStation Manager (DSM).