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Pros & Cons

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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.

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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 product had a total of 3,299 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 27 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    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


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I tried it as a surveillance unit since it comes with two licenses and it struggled


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I wish i had gone the extra for a 220 instead of the 220j at the time


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Kinda simple to setup for the average person


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Extremely slow on uploading files between computer and nas


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I have had my own personal file sharing using a older laptop and never had this issue before


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    But it does the job and its small and out of the way


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Plex does have some issues but its not a supported program

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