January 24, 2025 9:50:20 PM
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The DSM 6.2.4 interface with the Storage Manager window open to the Storage Pool tab.

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I have just received a new DiskStation, the DS1010+ (which is actually twelve years old). It’s set up with two drives, each 2TB, to provide a total space of 2TB (since the volume has drive fault protection with the Synology Hybrid Raid.) This particular DiskStation is a scalable model (meaning it can be connected to an expansion unit to add more space), and it has five drive bays. We were able to get it onto DSM (DiskStation Manager) version 6, even though it’s not supposed to be able to get to that version (see the next paragraph for more information on that.) I’ve already customized the lock screen and installed some packages to set it up, and I’ve installed the DS File app already.

To get the DiskStation onto verseion 6, we had to use the MobaXterm command line to get into it. We needed to change the model number so that the DiskStation saw itself as a DS1511+, which is the most similar model that can go to version 6. This involved modifying the synoboot bootloader file (which we made a backup of just in case something were to go wrong), and then, when we next logged onto DSM, we saw that it was ready to be updated to DSM 6. The update completed successfully, and the hack worked–the 1010+ is now on DSM 6, even though it’s not supposed to be allowed to do that. At first, when the DiskStation indicator lights showed it was on, but the DSM webpage wasn’t loading, we thought we had hosed the NAS box. However, it was only because we had entered the incorrect IP address. DSM 6 allows you to customize the lock screen and the desktop (including switching it into dark mode), and has a much more detailed side panel on the desktop that shows you the statistics of your system (the health, the resource monitor, and the storage amount.)

I’ve already added a folder chock full of Rustler Technologies Incorporated documents that are quite old now–they were previously on my free 5GB OneDrive account, which has been complaining lately because the storage has been getting full. So I thought that if the OneDrive was getting full, I would just offload the things that were taking up the most space onto the DiskStation, since I had already mapped the network drive and was accessible from all the machines in the house. I moved a bunch of huge sound recordings onto there (the whole thing was about 2GB) and then proceeded to pour on my Studio One songs, which were the main bulk in the OneDrive. Now every time I create a Studio One song, I can just save it directly to the DiskStation easily. The same thing is involved every time I create a sound recording in Voice Recorder or whatever on Windows.

Overall, the DiskStation DS1010+ seems very good so far, and I only have a total of 2.57 GB used out of the 2 TB (the storage chart shows 1%.) Keep in tune for more posts!

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