Synology Router - Installing & Using IPS

[itGeeks 186]

I came across I post on the Synology forums pertaining to installing and using IPS and I thought its good info for anyone using IPS on any router, It talks about tuning the IPS rule-set to fit your environment. In most cases its best to take the time to do this, We don't need to be scanning for threats for services/OS's/Applications we don't use on our networks, That's just a wast of IPS resources. Have a look at the link below and look for the post by 'Cola007 posted on Thu Sep 08-2016'.

https://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?t=120944

[Jason 83]

Interesting thread. Thanks for sharing. Was unable to determine whether users had acceptable performance from an SD card though.

 

 

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[itGeeks 186]

The consensus is to use an SSD drive on the USB3 interface and disable the check mark to reduce the USB3 down to USB2 speeds though I have not tested this yet. From that post peaple are using the Samsung 240 Evo 256GB for best performance. I did notice in the spec that the USB3 port is limited to 107 MB/s for Ext4 and 103MB/s for FAT32 so I am thinking a good fast class 10 SD card my do the trick, Testing is needed. I am going to try a SanDisk Ultra Fit and see how that does Before investing in a SSD https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BGTG2A0/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2JGVG2WGW14PY&coliid=IPIUP7Y0GBE11&psc=1