It gives you few options, is far less flexible and though a monthly fee of £9.99 seems low (especially compared with £199 to buy your own NAS) after using this service for a year or two, you are throwing money away and still need somewhere for your data to go if you ever choose to abandon your One Drive account. 3RD Party Cloud providers are a valuable service and indeed, using them as means to backup your NAS as a secondary backup (Synology, QNAP, Asustor etc all support 3rd party cloud migration), but as a primary means of cloud storage, I think One Drive is a short-term answer. If you are on a shoe-string budget and are looking for fast, cheap short term cloud storage, then One Drive is a good choice. I still genuinely believe that NAS is much, much better value for money and gives you everything that a cloud service like One Drive does, for far, far less money in the long run – but that is the point, the ‘long run’. When it comes down to it, you need to choose which cloud option gives you the services you need. That user can share files (send links etc) but ultimately there is one user who can access the One Drive account and typically you can only synchronize 1 PC and 1-2 Mobile devices to an account. Whereas most cloud services like One Drive only give you ONE login and support only 1 user. per users – just set it up and practically unlimited users. From that point on you can access the NAS via the network/internet/mobile/anywhere in the world with just your login and password! What gives NAS an advantage over One Drive, is that NAS features 2 step verification, unique AES-256bit encryption both locally and over the internet and (most importantly of all) a NAS can be access by HUNDREDS of users, each with their own login credentials, quota of storage space, completely controllable file access privileges and at NO ADDITIONAL COST. Upgrade Nowįor users still running Cloud Station and related packages, Synology Drive has succeeded.Internet access is kept safe and secure with a combination of their own NAS domain support and simply requires you to create a free account and to link your NAS with that account for the first time. The Cloud Station companion mobile app, DS cloud, will also remain available and will continue to receive security updates. All of these packages will no longer be available for download through the Synology Package Center.įor users on the 1.2.x SRM platform (RT1900ac, RT2600ac, MR2200ac), Cloud Station Server, Cloud Station Drive, Cloud Station Backup and Cloud Station ShareSync will remain available and will continue to receive security updates.
Synology will be discontinuing support for Synology Cloud Station Server, Cloud Station ShareSync, Cloud Station Drive, and Cloud Station Backup running on the DSM platform on April 30, 2021. Still, if this news got you on the wrong foot, fear not, you got until April 30, 2021, to make the switch, because that is the official date when Cloud Station suite will stop being part of the DSM lineup of official apps.Ĭloud Station Drive (client) NOTE: Keep in mind that these changes will ONLY reflect DSM users, not SRM or mobile apps as such! So if you are using this suite on your router, you can ignore this announcement.Įnd-of-Life Announcement for Synology Cloud Station Series of Packages On March 19th, 2021., Synology made an official announcement that they will discontinue their Cloud Station suite set of tools in favor of their already very popular Drive Server suite that, with the upcoming DSM 7 version, will enter its 3rd version.Īs you have read in the previous link, the release notes on the upcoming Drive 3.0 states that it will not be compatible with any version of Cloud Station apps, so this announcement shouldn't come as a shock, especially if you are a beta user. Well, we all saw this coming right? No? You must be new to the world of NAS and Synology.
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