Or – how I learned to love Synology

I had a Synology NAS in my home office for a little over seven years, until one Monday morning when I tried to stream music from it. My computer refused and said the server couldn’t be found. No worries, though, I’d been away for the weekend and sometimes the NAS takes a while to start up. Once it didn’t seem like it was starting though, I looked at the power light and it was flashing blue. Probably not a good sign. Maybe it was just complaining about an unexpected power outage (even though it’s on a UPS – one can always hope), I powered it down and started it up again. The drive lights all came on yellow and the power light was flashing blue again. Suspecting the worst, I checked the internet and it confirmed my fears – the unit was toast. I checked my email to see when the last successful backup was and it had successfully backed up on Friday morning, but not since then.

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