Synology BeeDrive Evaluate: NAS in a Portable SSD

Portable SSDs are mainly boring devices that permits you to retailer and entry your recordsdata sooner than a standard transportable exhausting drives, whereas they benefit from smaller type elements and are much less liable to damages while you drop them, there’s hardly one which helps you get extra organized with file administration and backups, that is the place Synology, a firm that primarily produces NAS servers, sees a hole that it may well fill with years of expertise in {hardware} and software program options, and the tip product is the Synology BeeDrive.

The BeeDrive is a cute little system with a discrete matte black paint job, I’m glad that it doesn’t have any shiny or rubbery surfaces as I might hate to see it with smudges. the system measures simply 65mm vast and weighs 42g, which is right for storing in pockets if you wish to do this, the drive has a white LED exercise indicator, and a USB-C port that provides as much as 10Gbps switch speeds.

The BeeDrive managed to realize as much as 832MB/s of sequential learn and 881MB/s of sequential write speeds once I ran a pace check on AS SSD benchmark, which is significantly quick for such a compact system and makes it best for a video enhancing or recreation storage drive.

However, the BeeDrive isn’t all about storing recordsdata and quick storage speeds, however relatively, it’s extra supposed as a backup hub, and you’ll need to put in the BeeDrive app in your pc to get pleasure from a suite of file backup options.

At this time of writing, the BeeDrive Desktop app is barely obtainable for Windows computer systems and Synology will launch a macOS model at a later time.

Once you might have put in the BeeDrive app, it’s going to require you to register or signal into your Synology account, and you’ll be given three choices to begin backing up your recordsdata – Computer Backup, File Sync and Mobile Backup.

Computer Backup is fairly self explanatory, this characteristic permits you to select which folder or drive in your pc you wish to again as much as the BeeDrive, the backup runs as quickly as you join the BeeDrive to your pc, and while you add new recordsdata to the folder you selected to backup.

As for File Sync, it really works much like Computer Backup however permits you to select the way you need your recordsdata to be synchronized between your pc and BeeDrive, you possibly can have the BeeDrive’s recordsdata changed by your pc’s model or vice versa, and this characteristic may be very helpful in the event you are likely to work on completely different computer systems as you possibly can setup completely different sync folders and route.

On high of that, what makes each Computer Backup and File Sync actually highly effective as in comparison with common backup options is the File model characteristic, which primarily shops as much as 5 variations of the identical file in a hidden folder in your BeeDrive and allows you to restore them while you want it.

For occasion, in the event you by chance deleted a complete lot of presentation slides in a Powerpoint file saved in your pc’s native folder, you possibly can shortly revert the file by Right clicking on it and click on on Browse Previous Version, you’ll be proven as much as 5 most up-to-date model of the identical file with timestamps and easily select the one you need it restored.

Speaking of accidents, you possibly can recuperate by chance deleted recordsdata on you pc’s native storage from the BeeDrive when you’ve got the Archive Deleted Files possibility enabled on the Computer Backup characteristic, which is a fairly neat characteristic in the event you are likely to mess issues up.

Mobile Backup is the place issues get actually attention-grabbing, it means that you can backup your cellphone’s photograph album over WiFi to your BeeDrive and works very equally to DS Photo on Synology’s NAS servers, you’ll need to obtain the BeeDrive cellular app on Google Play Store or Apple App Store, then use the app to scan the QR code when prompted in your pc’s display screen, and when linked to the identical WiFi community, the BeeDrive cellular app backs up your cellphone’s images effortlessly to the BeeDrive.

Aside from that, the BeeDrive cellular app is able to changing HEIC recordsdata to JPG for iPhone customers while you backup images to the BeeDrive, which may be very considerate of Synology to try this.

Probably essentially the most highly effective characteristic inside the BeeDrive app is BeeDrop, which works primarily like AirDrop and allows you to ship recordsdata, images and on the spot digital camera photographs to the BeeDrive, I personally use this a lot once I don’t wish to fiddle with cables.

The Synology BeeDrive is offered in storage capacities of 1TB and 2TB, it retails for RM829 and RM1429 respectively, it’s relatively expensive in the event you think about it as a mere storage system, however in the event you really worth the software program options that the BeeDrive gives while not having to take a position in a NAS server or month-to-month cloud storage subscriptions, not to mention coping with complicated configurations, the BeeDrive is a compelling selection and I simply wished Synology had provided increased storage capacities.

The Synology BeeDrive will be bought at Lazada and Shopee.

Warren

The geeky dictator of KLGG.