Review on Synology Bay DiskStation DS220 Diskless by Adam Czajkowski ᠌

Name: Synology Bay DiskStation DS220 Diskless
Item: Synology Bay DiskStation DS220 Diskless
Rating: 5

July 04, 2023

Good quality product, I rate this purchase excellent.

• If you are a professional IT specialist (especially a web developer), then it makes sense to take it. Save on renting VDS, hosting, storage, databases, etc. You can deploy your web server, services, databases, workers, etc. on Synology.
• If you are considering a file sharing solution for a small office, then this is also a good option because the OS allows for flexible management of users and access rights;
• If you ONLY need to store files and nothing else from the above (no web servers, docker, services, etc. ), then you should think. Give about 50 thousand for the device + hard drives. For this money, you can buy 2TB GoogleDrive on 7 years (50000 / 7000)! (rough estimates as of January 2022). A lot can happen in 7 years, hard drives can fail, the device itself can fail. So, most likely, the cost of maintaining Synology will exceed 50 thousand over 7 years. So, think, is it not cheaper to buy Google or some . Disk just to store files?

 01/30/2022: Also consider the cost of the Internet. If you store files on Google or . Disk, you do not need to pay for the Internet. In the case of Synology, you have to pay for it yourself to ensure round-the-clock access to your files. To the calculations above (for 7 years), we add the cost of the Internet. Take conditional 500r. 500 * 84 months = 42,000. for 7 years. Most likely this amount will be more and depends on the region. In Msk. and St. Petersburg is difficult to find good internet for 500 .
The conclusion is the same - if you just need to store files and nothing else, then think three times before taking Synology. This is an expensive toy.

Pros

• Looks beautiful. Very compact; • Attached is a beautiful and visual instruction on how to properly insert hard drives and at what address to open a browser tab to start the setup; • Configuration via browser. If you are an experienced PC and google user, you can easily figure it out; • A turnkey solution that does not require long and painstaking administration (everything is already set up); • Separate item for documentation. For each application, for each option, there is Russified documentation (this is just super); • Convenient and beautiful operating system for device administration; • The ability to use the device simultaneously as a web server, mail server, own VPN server, media server, proxy server (the list is incomplete. Relevant for January 2022); • Supports PHP, Java, Node. Js, Nginx, Apache, Docker, Perl, Python, MySQL, Joomla, WordPress (the list is incomplete. Current as of January 2022); • From FileStation, you can connect to GoogleDrive, OneDrive and DropBox; • Can encrypt hard drives; • Linux is spinning under the hood. You can connect through the terminal via SSH (enabled in the settings); • You can connect IP cameras; • You can install McAfee antivirus or Antivirus Essential (may be relevant when working together or when a mail server is deployed); • There is a slot for expanding RAM; • You can set up RAID 0, RAID 1 in a few clicks; • Free applications; вЂў You can write your own applications for Synology (there are guides); • And many many very interesting things.

Cons

• Read the privacy policy. On the one hand, Synology positions itself as a serious and reliable manufacturer (like a Swiss bank for your data), on the other hand, the privacy policy says that under certain circumstances, Synology will hand you over with giblets. (the presence of encryption eliminates this case); • QuickConnect, in my opinion, is a convenient, but not the most secure solution. It is much more secure not to expose connect to the outside, but to deploy OpenVPN and connect over a local network (supported by Synology). Also VPN works for mobile device; • I don't think it's safer to store data on Synology than on Google. A fire may occur, thieves may come, a flood, etc. The data will be lost. For greater reliability, it is still worth doing a backup to some kind of cloud (for example, Google). 01/30/2022: • I have not tried to expand the RAM yet, but I have already seen information on the Internet that only original Synology sticks are supported, which are much more expensive than other manufacturers! Of course, I didn’t expect this when I bought this Synology . It may turn out to be something with RAM from other manufacturers, but it’s hard to predict how it will work later.