Info Center

Info Center lists the NAS server's hardware specifications and comes with an overview of its services, the network, and its storage devices. A green icon under Thermal Status in its first tab denotes a normal state, while orange is indicative of high internal temperatures that will cause the NAS to shut down at any moment to prevent components from overheating. Hover over these icons with your cursor and the CPU's temperature will be displayed.

Media Indexing

Media Indexing is able to automatically scan and index multimedia files stored on the NAS, like photos, music, and videos.

Notification

You can have the NAS send notifications when specific events or errors occur, notifying you via email, SMS, mobile devices, Skype, or Windows Live Messenger. These events could, for example, include a connection loss, behavioral fan change(s), a power failure, a storage volume running out of space, and backup and restoration failure.

Hardware & Power

Power recovery, Wake on LAN, beep control, fan speed, and memory compression options are available in this menu. You can also set the system to start up or shut down automatically at a specified time, enable hard-drive hibernation, or connect a backup power device. You can even pick an advanced HDD-hibernation mode Synology says to minimize the NAS server's power consumption.

External Devices

The options depicted in these screenshots allow you to manage external devices connected to the NAS. Examples are external disks, printers, SD cards, and USB devices. There is unfortunately no option to format external storage devices into NTFS, although such a device is properly recognized if it has already been formatted to NTFS.

Update & Restore

Updating DSM is a very easy because of the above menu. Every time a new version is available, you will get a notification that sits on top of the Control Panel's icon. At the time of review, the most recent DSM was DSM 5.2 (5592 Update 3).