Toolless drive set up Works great with WD NAS drives RAM can be expanded although I doubt you'll need it for a home set up M2 drives can be set up as a cache I've used that feature, but may down the road
Overall, no complaints here about the unit, the software, the packaging, etc. To be very honest, I'm new to having a NAS device, never had one before, though I wished I could've been able to do so earlier. That out of the way, the DS224+ was super simple to set up and get going, right out of the box. I had chosen to skimp a little bit on the drives I am using initally, WD Red Plus drives, 2x 8TB, instead of the WD Red Pro drives of the same capacity, as my budget was fairly tight. As an aside, I found this unit a few dollars cheaper here than on some other competitors sites, and have had nothing but good experiences with NewEgg over the past fifteen years or so, so I bought it here. To say the shipping experience was also good might be an understatement, it was early, and packaged well.
+ Fast + 4 network ports, added 10G port + Ryzen chip, 8G of RAM + SSD cache
I'm a real novice when it comes to any type of networking but I found the machine setup simple enough for even me to understand. Over all, I'm pleased with the software and I'm able to do what I wanted to do on my local network..
Very sleek and sturdy design. Supports 3.5" and 2.5" drives with no adapter needed (Huge Pro for me) Quiet (Talk about quiet...) The design on the drive trays with included rubber vibration dameners is amazing. Can't hear the 4 7200 RPM drives at all. Fans are also super quiet. Now, let's talk about the software. This thing has more features built in to it, just straight out of the box, than any other consumer grade NAS I have worked with. I thought WD NAS's were great.... Honestly, the options in this one is WAAAYY better. If you are on the fence about buying one of these, jump down and go buy it. I have worked with NAS's like NetApp and the like, and this is probably one of the best consumer grade products that I have seen. I am definitely sold on these products and plan to buy the expansion modules for this ASAP and fill em with drives....
It just works. And in the computer world thats a big win. Runs as fast as a local hard drive.
I was able to replace 2 Raspberry Pi's and a repurposed older desktop with a single compact machine that is SO much easier to maintain. Why did I wait this long?
Good Interface, stable product, great price, good online Video training, easy to setup for basic functions, easy to link to vie home network, TV connections. Quite and good power management.
As simple as plug and play
Affordable. And works very well
- Well made - Nice little heatsink on the chip. - Fast ... really fast !
Easy to set-up Easy to be used by any devices Easily support 6 users ( 4 iphones + 2 android + 5 window laptop + 2 macosx + 2 fire tv) backup and streaming)
It was much faster than I expected, being my first NAS. Playing games off this thing in a SHR2 array, streaming from PC installed games, and also a Launchbox Retro collection works fine, and I have no issues.
* Excellent price:feature ratio * Great software
Great for Direct Attachment to computer or expanding your QNAP this is an easy and solid choice Hardware RAID is great to reduce overhead Software RAID is an option as well.
Easy to install.