Highlights
Quality
After backing up my pc via mapped drive i am happy with the performance
Very happy with the online instructions to set all these up
I thought i would like the qnap better but it was kind of glitchy from the start and the mobile apps really didnt work right
Other then that a near flawless product
Price
This is a good nas for the cost
If it could fit 4 hdd and for that the price would be awesome
Shipping
It is fast and the backups are solid
Ive found the device to be fast and reliable with excellent read and write speeds
Packaging/appearance
I was comfortable with that setup and thats what i wanted and the synology interface was so easy to use to walk me through the ... Read More
After doing some research i settled on the ds220
Competitiveness
Personally i run plex and syncthing on this nas and previously ran an apache web server mariadb and a nodejs app in an older le... Read More
I bought the ds220 to replace a comparable qnap nas
Furthermore the vast majority of online youtube videos regarding how to install and set up a synology raid network are pc oriented
I initially also ordered the junior model synology ds 220j but soon realised it doesnt support hot swap and to mountreplace a h... Read More
Overview
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- This product had a total of 3,531 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 7 2023.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I was using a very popular veeam backup but switched to synology backup
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The initial backups took several hours for each pc but on a daily basis the system spends less than two 2 minutes per pc on incremental backups
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I never had much faith that my backups were usable anyway
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Each time i tried to recover a file it failed
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I highly recommend any synology hardware that will allow the use of synology active backup for business software
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Im running two seagate hdds on this and not wd based on specs and reviews of wd hdds for a raid type of system
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
So it was a twopronged approach
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I did not use the igpu in the ds918 so the loss of the gpu does not matter to me personally though it is a valid criticism