Review on 💾 Diskless Synology DS118 NAS DiskStation with 1 Bay by Adam Kotowski ᠌

Name: 💾 Diskless Synology DS118 NAS DiskStation with 1 Bay
Item: 💾 Diskless Synology DS118 NAS DiskStation with 1 Bay
Rating: 5

July 04, 2023

The quality is top notch and I recommend the product for purchase.

The server was purchased mainly as a wireless hard drive to work on a laptop, because. wires when connecting external drives via usb constantly interfered. If you are interested in the device as a media server, then read the specification. But she's impressive. Video from GoPro H265 4k 60FPS can be viewed without problems. There are applications for working with media-video libraries. Like "FS client" for Win10 and "HD VideoBox" for Android.

Initially, I purchased an external MyPassport drive with built-in wifi. It turned out that he had problems with samba (network shared folder) and the speed of work was disappointing. After that, I looked at the MyCloud series and even wanted to take it, because. for my purposes (connecting as a network drive) was completely suitable. But then I came across a demo version of the OS from Synology and immediately "fell in love". MyCloud is not even close to its stub in the form of a web interface.

For my purposes and even more (as it turned out), the device seems completely suitable to me. This is a novelty, I took it to Amazon and cost about 10k. HDD took WD Red.

Working in "premiere" with 4k files. Everything flies on Wi-Fi. I set up auto-pickup of torrent files from the folder (and deleting the .torrent itself so that there is no garbage) and auto-download. Also, through the extension, you can immediately direct from the browser to the download.

Cooler set to minimum. In this mode, it can be turned off. In general, it is always disabled. Didn't see him spin. The temperature is 32 degrees.

There is practically no noise. The laptop cooler works louder. And even more air conditioning. And for me it was an important factor, because. I write the sound on a condenser Rode in an ordinary apartment, and he eats them pretty well.

I also set up a hidden folder for .Disk, which is not visible in the guest connection. The project file is usually converted there and immediately loaded into the cloud. Moreover, the operating modes are customizable (synchronization or only apload).

To mount an exFAT drive, you will have to buy a license for $3.99. But this is a Microsoft requirement.

The browser is missing. It would be a full-fledged remote PC.

Pros

Operating system! You can watch the demo on the official website The ability tocomnnect Wi-Fi "whistle" and its simplecomnfiguration. Possibility of automaticcompying from mediacomnnected to usb. App store. The ability to automatically start downloading torrents when they are uploaded to acomnfigured folder. Cloud sync. Configuring accesscomntrol to folders between users. For example, guest access without a password can be limited to certain folders, and the rest will be hidden. If something is deleted, then this, if desired, can becomnfigured to fly into the trash, which the user will not even see, thinking that everything has been deleted. The ability to share files by link, as in any cloud service. Access files from an external or local grid.

Cons

Own OS on yandra Linux and very stripped down. In general, competent and comfortable. But it's like if you do not like iPhones for their limitations and sit on Android because of its flexibility. For standard purposes - everything is super. But you expect flexibility from Linux. And if you yourself do not know how to compile, then it will be difficult to add something non-standard. Although, on the forums, people even posted a scrobbler for Lastfm. There is not enough opportunity to install a full-fledged browser.