Storage Analyzer
DSM Version
Storage Analyzer
Features
- Scheduled storage analysis provides close monitoring of storage usage growth
- Detailed reports generated for efficient management and organization of storage
- Custom criteria to analyze the storage space of specific files to meet different needs
- Reports exported in CSV files can be processed by IT administrators for advanced usage
- Duplicated file detection to free up unnecessary occupied space (See limitation 1)
Specifications
- Provides detailed analytic for the following attributes
- Quota
- File owner
- Volume usage
- Shared folder size
- File group
- Duplicate files
- Large files
- Most recently modified files
- Least recently accessed files
- Supports analyses of the following default file types (Users can also add customized ones)
- Zipped files
- 7z, bz2, gz, rar, tar, tbz, tgz, and zip
- Pictures
- 3fr, arw, bmp, cr2, crw, dcr, dng, erf, gif, ico, jpe, jpeg, jpg, k25, kdc, mef, mos, mrw, nef, orf, pef, png, psd, ptx, raf, raw, rw2, sr2, srf, tif, tiff, ufo, and x3f
- Videos
- 3g2, 3gp, asf, ass, avi, dat, divx, dvr-ms, f4v, flv, ifo, m2t, m2ts, m4v, mkv, mov, mp4, mpeg, mpg, mts, psb, qt, rm, rmvb, smi, srt, ssa, swf, tp, trp, ts, vdr, vob, wmv, and xvid
- Audio
- ac3, aif, aiff, ape, dff, dsf, flac, m3u, m4a, m4b, m4p, mp1, mp2, mp3, mpa, ogg, pcm, pls, ra, ram, wav, wma, and wpl
- Documents
- docx, pdf, pps, ppsx, pptx, rtf, txt, wri, xla, xlam, xlb, xlc, xld, xlk, xll, xlm, xlsb, xlsm, xlsx, xlt, xltm, xlv, and xlw
- Web pages
- actproj, ad, akp, applescript, as, asax, asc, ascx, asm, asmx, asp, aspx, asr, c, cc, cpp, cs, css, cxx, htm, html, jsx, mhtml, php, xhtml, and xml
- Disk image files
- bin, daa, img, iso, mds, and nrg
- Executable files
- Locates duplicate files
- Exports reports to CSV files
Limitations
- The maximum number of duplicate files found in each report is 5,000
- Only the top ten volumes with the highest usage are shown when there are more than ten volumes on a Synology NAS
- Only the 200 largest files are listed in the Large Files section of usage reports
- Hybrid Share folders are not included in usage reports and cannot be selected as a destination folder to save reports