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Administrative Role Delegation to give users specific admin roles without giving them full admin rights.Kill Connections to Opened Files allows admins to find locked files (shared files opened by a user and another user needs the file gets granted a read-only, non-modifiable file) in Resource Monitor and terminate connections to them.

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Permissions Change Tracking allows admins to see which user changed what permissions on shared files or folders in Windows File Explorer through SMB.Permissions Exporting will allow admins to export permissions of shared folders that will help in auditing purposes and help identify specific users’ permission without the need to go through each folder.And the company will be adding per volume deduplication.Peta Volume Support allows for the creation of up to 1PB volumes ideal for VMS or file server bulk storage.RAID6 performance is said to be improved by up to 80% in random I/O workloads.SSD Cache Write-Back prevents possible data loss by writing data that exists only on the SSD array back to the HDD array.The company states that users can see a performance increase up to 3.8x for Active Backup for Business, Hyper Backup, and Snapshot Replication SSD Cache Metadata Pinning to enhance performance when browsing and/or deleting small files.Fibre Channel Support now with Synology to enhance and make consistent transfer performance.Storage Manager will reclaim this space in off-peak hours. Deleting shared folders, snapshots, and LUNs can leave unused storage space. There are fast and auto repair options that work by monitoring and quickly repairing degraded drives. There is also an auto replacement option for staking one of the hot spare drives and automatically replacing a degraded drive. A drive replacement option is added with the ability to replace an unhealthy drive with a new drive in a pool without degrading the pool. Storage Manager gets refreshed with a redesign on things like volume usage details.We do have several details on updates that will be of interest to our readers. Most of this involves making changes to existing aspects and packages. Synology did say that they were completely changing the user interface as well as massive overhauls of many of its subsystems. So, it is the first number, not a dot something update, what all is new? If you were expecting a huge slew of announcements, I was, you’ll be disappointed.

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Synology also states a six million per month package download on the NAS. Synology claims this makes DSM the world’s largest NAS OS, which may be the case. Now, according to Synology’s sales metrics, over eight million devices are deployed around the world leveraging DSM for an operating system.

We’ve dipped in a few times to review several of their packages including Snapshot Replication, Virtual Machine Manager, and Audio Station. Since that writing, the company has updated DSM several times and released a slew of new SAN and NAS 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).

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All the updates have been free of charge. Synology has since regularly updated its 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.

For a general background on DSM we wrote, Synology was founded in 2000 and began its research on DSM in 2003. Synology DSM 7.0 Updatesįour years ago, we did a fairly in-depth review of the DSM 6.x (I believe it was 6.2 at the time). The company is also announcing that there will be a significant expansion of its cloud platform, Synology C2, in the coming weeks. The main updates of DSM 7.0 concern enhancing security, system management capabilities, and improving data collaboration and the company’s NAS and SAN devices. Well, today the company announced the release of Synology DSM 7.0. It feels like Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) has been in the 6.x version forever.