Review on Synology DS220 NAS black by Mateusz Morawski ᠌

Name: Synology DS220 NAS black
Item: Synology DS220 NAS black
Rating: 5

July 04, 2023

The best price for such a product, I will buy more!

I have two 6tb drives. and 3 tb. work separately.
one disk for slaughter for rocking chairs and a virtual machine, the other for long-term storage.

Not everything works as I imagined.
Photos and music, in order for the photo station and audio station programs to work, you need to put them in special folders, this is not convenient when you have your own folder storage structure.

Running pi-hole in linux mint easily using 1gb. random access memory.

If you store a virtual machine on the synology HDD, and run it via a gigabit connection from a computer, then the work is not comfortable.
I wanted to run from USB SSD, but bummer.

I haven’t used docker before, in order to start a pi-hole on it, you need to climb through SSH and configure it, it wasn’t configured on the buttons.

From 6 TB. 5.24 TB will remain in BTRFS, choose the right disk size correctly.

Fits
RAM 4 GB 1 pc. Crucial CT4G4SFS8266

Conclusion
If you need to store files securely, download and distribute them, watch your video library anywhere without any problems, and, moreover, do not look for software and pay money for it, then this is a good choice.

If you plan to constantly experiment and do something other than what the marketers have allowed and planned, then I think it’s better to assemble my device using the right software.

If the disc is old and vibrates, synology should be placed on two dishwashing sponges.

Pros

ready solution. Beautifully compact, reliable. Access to the device without a white IP works. The video station does an excellent job of playing video on a TV set and phone. You can give a link to a friend to upload his files to synology, this is true for inexperienced users on the other end. Lots of different cloud syncs. Download station can download to USB disk.

Cons

usb does not support phone and hubs. Vmware is there, but just transferring a virtual machine from a computer to synology and running it will not work. Installing a virtual machine on USB will not work. For example, I panned to put on a USB ssd drive. By the way, RAM is allocated to the machine in multiples of 1GB. There is no sync program to copy from windows to the desired folder on synology. There is no program to sync folder on synology with USB drive. The WEB client for mail does not work without installing the server and you still have to configure it, which is completely illogical. my synology drive does not download more than 1000 kb. Sec. , via the Internet, with a channel width of 100 Mbps. You can not give a certain application access to the Internet through a VPN.