- Much faster than my old nas
was looking for the DS224+ on other sites, did not find it, and so I bought from newegg. Amazing quick and efficient service. Got my unit before the target date. Plus I find the prices here are generally a little bit cheaper than other sites, and NewEgg also has a free return policy which is just great!
Set up is easy, web based interface is convenient and doesnt require drivers or custom apps to be installed, tons of extras like Docker and other integrated applications.
- (still) powerful CPU with hardware video processing - upgradeable RAM - SSD cache/storage pool option
Equivielent units from other manufacturers were back ordered forever. This was in stock. Purchased diskless. Loaded with eight Ironhorse 12 TB HDDs. Setup worked first time as expected. Now on-line, in use as backup NAS. I keep it in another room, so I configured for MAX fan speed. Drives stay nice and cool.
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.
This was ridiculously easy to set up. Just install the drives in the screw-less carriers, plug them into the chassis, connect the eSATA cable and power up. The system sees all the new drives and displays the expansion chassis and drives in the GUI. Then you just choose how you want it setup (RAID5, RAID6 etc.) and the system does the rest. It builds the RAID and optimizes the RAID and filesystem. If you have SSD cache you can even split it between the main chassis array and the expansion array. I had two each 1TB SSDs (too large) and spilt the capacity between the two volumes. Once the RAID was complete I ran ATTO benchmarks on the both volumes and witnessed almost identical performance to both volumes. No performance penalty on the expansion chassis whatsoever. Also, the drives ran cool during all functions. I saw a maximum of 102 degrees F . I was concerned about the performance of the expansion chassis but no need for the concern. You can simply expand your primary volume across the two chassis but I would not recommend that. Separate volumes on each chassis is safer. I would recommend this expansion chassis to anyone wanting to expand their storage with a Synology NAS that supports the expansion chassis. It just works like it should and you can manage all your NAS storage through a single interface. I have the primary NAS connected via a bonded pair of GigE and can saturate both links and see around 220 MB/sec read or write sustained.
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)
This is an assume system very easy to set up, I work with Dell SAN and this is super easy to configure for the home user. I will be using this for all of my home backups.
Works as describe
Very easy to instal and configure raid, had it running in 15 min.
Easy to install.