Review on 💾 Synology DS920+ DiskStation - 4-Bay NAS (Diskless) with 4GB DDR4 RAM by Wiktor Niekrasz ᠌

Name: 💾 Synology DS920+ DiskStation - 4-Bay NAS (Diskless) with 4GB DDR4 RAM
Item: 💾 Synology DS920+ DiskStation - 4-Bay NAS (Diskless) with 4GB DDR4 RAM
Rating: 4

May 03, 2023

Everything is fine, I liked the product, I bought it for a reason.

I installed two WD60EFZX, dangling 850 evo on 512 idle and bought 1tb nvme cache for reading. The cache is good because the screws are not killed at this time, the percentage of hits is 60% -80%.

The real score for NAS is 4 minus. this is a good device with some software flaws, rather than an ordinary craft with some pluses.

For almost a week I was choosing which US to take, and as it turned out, in general, there was no choice. Given my assessment, I can say that there are apparently no excellent hardware and software products for sale at a reasonable price.

This NAS is very controversial - something is done very well, and something is frankly unsatisfactory.

In sum, the hardware product is solid, but expensive, and the software is not enough to put a clean mark of "good". The software looks quite stable and efficient in performance, but due to the uselessness of the audio station and a number of other problems, it can hardly be called good.

Pros

Under load, the NAS is barely warm and quiet, in terms of fans. Many well-documented and useful applications, in particular: * video station + ds video * synology photos * ds note * hyper backup * drive + excellent client for vend (downloaded from official site) Convenient setup and management tools. quickconnect - lifesaver, if there is no white ip - 5+ for it. Nice box design.

Cons

The price is high for Celeron 4 cores and 4 GB of RAM, because. for 50k (for the summer of 2022) you can take a 3250U/16/512ssd laptop with venda. The design/usability of user applications suffers a bit - some points are not obvious. If the fans are quiet, then two WD60EFZXs crunch like French rolls under high pressure, and the NAS-a box does not try to fight it, or it is not noticeable. An undisguised rattle can sometimes be annoying. Badly. Application Disadvantages: * note station - in the web version, unlike ds note, there is no possibility (it is unlikely that it is hidden) to create a note based on url with copying the page content. Task reminder system is not flexible * audio station - in the flac+cue web client it has problems with playback (gaps), while in ds audio there are no problems, but ds audio is not available for Windows. There are no solutions with problem-free playback of one playlist with lossless under 10 venda and on android (aimp, foobar and musicbee, alas, are not exported under android). The record format for flac in m3u is custom for synology - this is a game. * problems (partially solved) with video codecs - not everything works out of the box. * in drive for android there is no synchronization for editing files locally - so the application is almost useless There is no way to migrate applications from one volume to another using native tools (you may not think about this at first). Critical - the rights distributed to folders and files do NOT apply to indexing, so all the pluses from fine-tuning access (by groups and users to subfolders and files) disappear for the video (and audio) station. This is very bad, and you have to make crutches at the shared folders level.