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Dead Synology DS1515+

So last March I purchased a Synology DS1515+ and wrote about it in one of my posts “Who Shall Control My Media? Part 4 - Backend Storage”and up until this weekend, it had been performing very well.

On Saturday we went to watch a video and after hitting “Play”, the indicator that it was loading just spun. Since playback is usually almost instantaneous, and we were spinning for about 10 seconds, I decided to make sure that everything was good with the network components. I looked in our little data closet and there were no lights on the Synology. I pushed the power button. Nothing. No flickering light, no beep, nothing. I didn’t really want to mess with it at that moment, so we just decided to watch something else on Netflix.

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Who Shall Control My Media? Part 4 - Backend Storage

So you’ve got a lot of videos, home movies, pictures, etc., that you want to have access to from all of your devices and get them on your big screen.  Sounds simple, right?  Its anything but.  With the huge amount of competition and proprietary solutions out there it can be very confusing and extremely frustrating trying to figure out what the “best” solution is.

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