Synology File Sharing Services have surged in popularity as businesses look for smarter, more secure cloud solutions since Dropbox first hit the scene. The struggle of emailing large attachments — 5MB, 10MB, or more, is all too familiar. Files like CAD drawings, Adobe projects, and high‑resolution media quickly push the limits of traditional sharing tools, and FTP just couldn’t keep up.

While subscription‑based cloud services solved the problem, their per‑user costs add up over time. Fortunately, there are now better file synchronization and sharing solutions that deliver flexibility, scalability, and value without the long‑term expense.

Check out our other post on a couple of the Synology file sharing services that offer the ability to share file links.

Need a high speed, modern version of FTP?  Try Presto by Synology.

The freemium services may not be sufficient for your business needs especially when engaging in video production projects.  Presto is a Synology File Sharing services specifically dedicated to dropping the file into your Synology Diskstation Manager and making sure it arrives all the way around the world in a time that would make you think twice about using FedEx for delivery.

The bare minimum Synology NAS requirements needed for high speed data carried across continents, hot-swapable drives, and can plug in external HDD’s.  is something like a Synology DS1618+.  Licenses are expensive for Synology Presto.  Make sure the licensing is not barrier to entry for your team.   License are priced by bandwidth capacity.  

The Synology will need to be upgraded to the Synology Dual-Port 10 GB SFP+ PCIe 3.0 x8 Ethernet adapter first if you do proceed.  The computer will need a have a 10GbE (most don’t by default)port or you can purchase a Single-Port Thunderbolt 3 to Single-Port 10GbE Nbase-T RJ-45.   The alternative ethernet adapter is this guy.   This will enable you to copy file over your LAN network via fast Ethernet.   Here are a couple options on the switch side.

Dropbox advertises quick file transfers.  The definition of quick these days for sending a large file is up to a 100 GB but DropBox isn’t ideal for everyone.  Synology advertises 1TB transfer to finish around 12 hours on a Gigabit broadband.  For most others, we are use to 100 megabit.  This would take 24 hours.

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Synology File Sharing Support Summary

FTP is more present than every.  It’s just a lot more robust and simplified since then.

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