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Pros & Cons
Pros
Storage comes from the hdds you install. Lots of varieties for compatible hdd allows you to fit your budget or performance needs. Set up the raid, replacing and adding hdds is made easy.
Synology ds220j is a true nas so it requires them to download the large video file in order to view it (no playback view) i have a raspberry pi based time machine at home for two macs, and a third pc backing up to the same disk. My firewall rules are ... Read More
Cons
The help is unhelpful. Seems like something someone else returned because it was defective, and they just turned around and sold it to me. I'm sure the software designers thought their division of tasks into education, retail, manufacturing and whatno... Read More
This is a bargain basement model which is severely limited due to only 512mb of no upgradable ram. It is unusable with that ram, and you’re not able to upgrade the ram on this unit. Because it's so busy to move the swap files turns out that it does no... Read More
Backup packages are useless. What is the point of denying backup access to this directory? Therefore, it is not reliable! It's sad to see one small trivial effort in a company fail and be so brand damaging to push customers away.
Arrived with no packaging, literally just the device in an unlabeled cardboard shipping box with 1 small sheet of bubble wrap. No documentation. It is unclear which screws go where.
Highlights
Quality
Overall interface and installation was easy and after using it for a while now there have been no problems
Used 14tb drives plenty of storage for my digital music and photos easy to set up
I had the wd my cloud home which is the worst putchase i’ve ever made and switched to this night and day
This was my first nas and as such was great for learning about the various synology apps which are very good but photo indexing... Read More
Price
Great value for a starter simple athome nas
But the costs on that were growing and when i did a recovery exercise
Performance the menus are a bit slow at time but for sub 200 it does a decent job
Shipping
Also to note that the power supply that was shipped to me did not work
Competitiveness
The total investmentprice was very competitive with other personal cloud devices and much better than upgrading to another wd device
Maping the nas on windows and linux machines was equally easy on both brands
The nas offers much more possibilities such as backing up to a cloud service like backblaze googledrive etc
Bottom line i would recommend that product as a good alternative to airport
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This was my first nas and as such was great for learning about the various synology apps which are very good but photo indexing took days and you dont get all the features of synology photos on this device because it doesnt have enough ram or processing power
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I tried it as a surveillance unit since it comes with two licenses and it struggled
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I wish i had gone the extra for a 220 instead of the 220j at the time
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Kinda simple to setup for the average person
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Extremely slow on uploading files between computer and nas
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I have had my own personal file sharing using a older laptop and never had this issue before
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But it does the job and its small and out of the way
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Plex does have some issues but its not a supported program
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