Storage Analyzer Technical Specifications | Synology Inc.

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
  - exe
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