Synology DiskStation

I wonder why people sometimes are unable to separate the 'free' services Google offers to the public, with the enterprise part of their business. Google Workspace is used by a lot of large companies in the world, I doubt they'd do that if they're not sure their data is secure.

If you want something like Dell iDRAC or HPE iLO, I don't think it's available with consumer-grade NAS boxes from either Synology or QNAP.

WoL is similar to the above subsystems, albeit with less features.

I've only been using Google Workspace since the first of December when Rackspace had their ransomware disaster. I've been impressed by the management flexibility and by the wealth of security features available. It's not particularly secure by default, but you can bulk that security up considerably by configuring it.

Here are some of the larger customers:

Google -- eating their own dog food
Dropbox
Airbnb
eBay
Uber
Spotify
Netflix
PayPal
LinkedIn
Tesla
Twitter
Cisco
Adobe
Asana
Salesforce
PwC
Accenture
Deloitte
KPMG
McKinsey

Right. I'm not looking for huge functionality. I'm the only one that uses it, not for work or anything important, just as a convenient spot to store all my pickies, perhaps upload some shots if I run short of storage on my travels, that sort of thing. And store receipts for tax returns, electrical item receipts for warranty purposes, minor league really. So it doesn't need to run all the time. Far from it.
So if there were a simple way to wake it up from sleep mode, that's all I'd want to do. I'm 99% sure I can already reboot or shut it down remotely, being to fire it up would be nice. Probably more for the challenge more than necessity 😁
Plenty of reading to do now

Right. I've been a iDRAC user on all my servers for at least 15 years, and I've never seen anything like it on Synology NASs, and I've been buying the Synology enterprise NASs for some time. iDRAC uses its own Ethernet connection, has its own IP address, runs its own GUI, and allows remote configuration and monitoring of the server even when the OS is fried. Powering the server up and down is just one of its many capabilities. That's probably why I've never used wake on LAN.

You should read this article (AVG is the privacy directive of the Dutch government): tweakers.net/nieuws/208964/rijksoverheid-kan-vanaf-juni-google-clouddiensten-zonder-avg-risicos-gebruiken.html

They are ”Allow Lists” and “Deny Lists”. We don’t use “whitelist” and “blacklist” any longer.

We don’t use SPI “Master” or “Slave” anymore, either.

Welcome to the future, my friend. :-)

The translated version of that article sounds positive, though? Or maybe I'm missing something 🤔

The point is that an enormous amount of work has to be invested, time after time, to get Google to comply to the law. They're slow like molasses and in fact work against the goal of the law.

I started this thread to get help using my Synology box, and you’re talking about Google’s compliance with Dutch laws?

Ouch.

In case you failed to notice, this was said in a comparison between a service found on Synologys and a service offered by Google. Very on topic and not 'Ouch' at all.

My Synology wakes on LAN using the router supplied by my ISP. I don’t know if it’s true Wake on LAN or if the LAN is always active, but for sure the disks spin down when it’s not in use and it takes many seconds for the drives to spin up and make itself available.

Having the disks spin down is the default state. That's different from WoL. You can tell if it's wake on LAN by looking and seeing if the whole box powers up and down.

Right now, I have my router configured to forward ports 80, 443, 5000, and 5001 to the Synology. I’m not sure if I need so many opened. I’ll do some experimenting at some point.

80 is for the web server over http:, 443 web server over https:, 5000 is for external access to DSM as an admin or user through http: while 5001 is the same for access over https:

If you do not need to access DSM from the Internet you should close both 5000 and 5001 ports. If you do need access, only open 5001 and install a certificate from Let's Encrypt so the traffic is encrypted, otherwise someone might intercept your password and other trtaffic.