Review on High-Performance Synology DS220j Diskless 2-Bay NAS DiskStation with 512MB DDR4 Memory by Caleb Eichbauer

Perfect solution for small business or home. Offers you a full range of features previously only available to large companies with no price tag. Share files on this drive and stop emailing documents. Stop the nightmare of backing up your workstations as it gives you network drives for a full set of operating systems. The Linux-based operating system offers high availability and reliability. Some people are happy with 2-bay devices, but moving to 4-bay allows you to increase capacity and support more drives. It is cheaper to fill a 4 x 6TB device at a lower price than a 2 x 12TB device. This 4-bay unit supports various RAID options. I run mine with 4x Western Digital Red Pro 6TB 3.5 inch 256MB cache at 7200rpm in a RAID 5 configuration which gives me 18TB of storage with 6TB parity RAID backup for a total of 24TB of raw storage results. Gigabit Ethernet port with 112 MB/s published bandwidth for sequential reading and writing across the device and your network. For most people, however, you'll never see it unless you're transferring huge files, often much larger than a PC's hard drive. Synology has a good selection of apps to customize your device to your specific needs. I use an app that allows me to run my device on my personal "cloud" and I can access my files remotely and link them to the app for iPhone and Android. It goes to sleep and stops drives when not in use. Reduces uptime and extends service life. As an IT and network engineer on a large campus, I find it a sleek, compact device. For those who don't want to constantly pay an IT specialist, a novice will find Synology's support page sufficient to get the device up and running. There is plenty of documentation and instructional videos available so that you can operate the device safely and efficiently without much effort. Conclusion: I highly recommend this device and prefer it to the other two devices. This is a durable item that will reduce your headaches and labor costs. Once you set it up, it can work with minimal effort.