Engineering Synology Drive for Performance at Scale
When teams look for documents, load huge directories, or work together on shared files, they want results right away. There is a lot of engineering that goes into making that experience so smooth, and a lot of it happens deep inside the Synology Drive platform. At Epis Technology, we help companies get this level of performance on a large scale by designing, optimizing, and setting up Synology environments that can handle heavy workloads, teams that are spread out, and the needs of enterprise data. Learn about Synology performance engineering.
This article explains how Synology built Drive to be fast and scalable, and how Epis Technology turns these features into real, measurable results for your business.
Making a Strong Base for Growth and Dependability
Before any application can work in real time, it needs a strong base. Synology engineers rebuilt the core database structure of Drive so that it could handle huge datasets, millions of files, and a lot of users at once. But a blueprint isn’t enough on its own; companies also need the right strategy for deploying, storing, and protecting their data. Explore Synology-powered infrastructure resilience.
This is where Epis Technology comes in.
Epis Technology builds Synology-based infrastructures with:
- Storage architecture that can grow
- Configurations for high performance
- Policies for file integrity and replication
- Data protection and continuity for businesses
When companies use Epis Technology’s consulting services, they get not only a fast platform, but also one that is strong enough to last for a long time.
Fixing the Big Problem with Moving Folders
Moving big project folders with hundreds of thousands of files is hard for a lot of businesses. Traditional systems slow down, indexing takes too long, and the user experience gets annoying.
Synology fixed this by getting rid of its old “fat table” database structure, which kept full-text paths for each file. They changed it to a lean, ID-based tree structure where each item only keeps track of its own name and the ID of its parent.
This new design leads to:
- Moving folders almost instantly
- Indexing goes faster
- Less work for the CPU
- Performance greatly improved in big deployments
Epis Technology takes this a step further by looking at your environment, adjusting database storage, and optimizing Synology Drive for real-world uses like design teams, video production workflows, engineering repositories, and offices that are spread out.
Finding the right balance between data safety and high performance
The safety of data is always the most important thing. Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) is used by Synology to make sure that every file operation is logged, even if the power goes out. But if this happens too often on its own, it can hurt performance.
Synology engineers fixed this by using custom checkpointing to group thousands of operations into efficient write cycles. This optimization made indexing speed more than 20 times faster.
Epis Technology makes sure that these improvements work at their best by:
- Setting up the right storage tiers
- Tweaking performance settings
- Making sure that SSD caching strategies work together
- Making the Drive database work better for your workload
Having the technology is one thing; using it correctly is another. That’s where Epis Technology’s knowledge really comes in handy.
Making the core application logic work better in the real world
The internal logic of a high-performance system is what makes it strong. Synology constantly analyzes and improves Synology Drive to get rid of bottlenecks that happen when serialization, internal task management, and metadata handling are all going on at the same time.
One big change: It is now 2.2 times faster to choose and delete 100 files.
Epis Technology builds on these improvements by:
- Allocation of resources in a unique way
- Tuning at the application level
- Profiling performance during deployment
- Ongoing help to make sure Drive grows with your business
The result is a smooth, responsive experience every time, even with millions of files or thousands of users.
Integration at the platform level: the real performance booster
Synology Drive doesn’t work on its own; it uses the powerful features of DiskStation Manager (DSM) and the Btrfs filesystem, which are both important parts of Epis Technology’s Synology deployment strategy.
1. Getting rid of delays when restarting
Before, restarting Drive meant scanning all of your files again, which could take tens of minutes.
Synology fixed this by connecting Drive to DSM’s change-tracking service, which lets Drive quickly get missed events.
Epis Technology sets up environments to make this behavior as good as possible, which means less downtime and faster recovery times.
2. Btrfs makes file versioning easy.
Versioning is very important for creative and technical teams, but storing a lot of versions shouldn’t take up a lot of space.
Drive can do the following with Btrfs reflink technology:
- Make almost instant copies
- Keep versions without copying whole data blocks.
- Improve performance and save space
Epis Technology builds storage systems that make the most of Btrfs by balancing speed, data protection, and long-term storage.
Epis Technology Makes a Culture of Performance Possible
Drive can work on a large scale thanks to Synology’s ongoing improvements, such as a smaller database, 20 times faster indexing, smarter queries, and deep OS-level optimizations. But businesses need expert engineering and deployment to fully use these features. Visit Epis Technology online.
Epis Technology makes sure that your Synology environment is:
- Built to grow
- Made to work better
- Safe with backup plans that have multiple layers of security
- Set up for heavy workloads
- Fits in perfectly with the rest of your IT setup
Epis Technology takes care of the technical details, so your teams can use Synology Drive in a way that is fast, efficient, reliable, and built for the needs of today’s businesses. Explore the Epis Technology shop.