Diskless Synology 💾 DS218j 2-Bay NAS DiskStation Review

Despite the shortcomings, it performs its functions, everything works as it should. Description and documentation are at an acceptable level, and even in 2022.

Apple in the NAS world With its pros: Cool software, many additional packages, my favorite is Download Station, you can distribute 24/7, Media station, your office, your mail server, your chat, your server (in terms of the site, all sorts of Joomla, Apache and so on) - after WD really understand that you have your own server, albeit small. Different cons: They introduced against the 2022, stopped automatically ating the signatures of the built-in Anti-Virus. Now only manually, download…

Pros: The company of brooms does not knit! Works very fast even with HDD with tiled recording. Your applications for all occasions. Management is very "user friendly"! Some cons: Goodbye Google Photo sync, hello Google! Their native applications do not want to work with remote folders.

In spite of several issues, it is still useful and operates as intended. The level of detail and documentation is adequate, even for 2022.

Some pros: The best in this price range. Reliability. Very handy software Cons: it still makes a lot of noise. But here is a design feature, nothing can be done

I debated whether to construct my own NAS or to purchase this one for quite some time. I'm glad I made the investment in a DS218 and have never once regretted it; there has been no need to get out the tambourine. Drive Video Audio Photo Station, DLNA, with additional disk synchronization, access via smb, and nfs, allows me to set it up and forget it, saving me a ton of time. The realtek processor and 2GB of RAM are more than adequate for normal home use; they begin to show their limits only…

1. I have only 10 MB/s write speed via gigabit network 2. RAID 1 two WD Purple 4TB Its pros: 1. Looks OK 2. The package contained everything you need to connect 3. Manufacturer with normal support With its cons. 1. It is very difficult to set everything up 2. On android, you need to install several applications. It would be better if there was one, so you have to open several

There are no questions about iron. In principle, there are no questions to the OS of the storage itself. But for a device that is specialized for working with data and storing files, there are very few opportunities in terms of organizing directories and personalizing disk space. All possibilities end with "create folder" and "delete folder". Pros: Easy installation, friendly interface, quiet operation and relatively fast response. Has some cons Very wild folder hierarchy. When uploading data…

I met Synology at work, this brand has proven itself well as reliable and practical devices. These devices have been working for years 24/7/365, without failures, without problems - that's why it was decided to buy a Synology device for home. My wife is a marketing designer, and carrying all the developments on an external usb drive was simply not safe, and not practical. Often she forgot this disk at home or in the office at work, which reduced the productivity of work, and gave a slight…

In general, a good device that works great. Out of the box, it has a fairly large set of applications, in principle, covering all the needs of a home NAS user. Of the direct positives, one can note the work of support. They respond quickly, the answer is written in two languages. I liked the support. Some pros: Small size for a two drive device. Completely silent. Cooler settings minimum performance. The soft shell, the operating system is not bad at all, quite nicely simple, visual…

Great device, but it will take a day to figure it out. I used to have two simpler network disk devices (Seagate Personal Cloud WD My Cloud) - they were much easier to figure out. Pros below: 1. After I figured everything out - a surprisingly convenient and useful device. Works fast, does not slow down. Download speed - 80-100 megabytes per second. 2. Instructions for the first connection - very clear and simple. Only after this connection you get a working and connected device. But not at all…

I gave five stars because it is exactly what I need. You should do some serious research before investing in such things. 1) I am NOT using this for a media server, although it may serve that purpose. 2) See 1. :) So. This is how I use it and in what situation it gets 5 out of 5 from me. * I have a mirrored system with RAID 1. That means I have TWO 8TB drives because mirroring duplicates doesn't give more spaces. *Synology unit is powered off 5 days a week.*On Saturday/Sunday we do a full…

I replaced my old Synology NAS SD212j with this one to improve speed and storage space. The old one worked perfectly for 7 years. The new DS281j version has moderately faster hardware, so I expect a slight performance boost. I installed two 4TB WD Red drives in the new unit instead of the 2TB in the old one. Installing from disk is easy and takes 10 minutes. Plug the device into the mains and connect it to the network with the supplied Cat 5e Ethernet cable. Launch the available "Synology…

Attention. Synology has full access to all your data. When installing you give them rights to your data! According to you, you are looking for information on how to read debug logs. The log file is just a Linux kernel dump in a double archive. We'll open it with 7Zip and once you go down a few levels you'll see the full folder/file structure. Almost every file in these folders can be opened with a text editor (we use Notepad++). Please note that they are not very user friendly unless you know…

I was hesitant to buy a local storage device for my home, thinking that with all the cloud services out there, I didn't really need it. I am very happy with this model. It works well and is very easy to set up and use. Failed drives are easy to replace. I was able to download all my old home videos that I had previously re-dubbed to DVD onto this unit. My wife and I can upload all of our digital photos from our smartphones, freeing up storage space on our phones. Memories is a great app for…

A few days ago I bought and set up a Synology 2 disk storage device. Let me tell you it was worth every penny. The first thing that struck me was the ease of setup. It works with its own Linux distribution called DSM, I haven't played around with that part much. But Web Config's interface is amazingly simple, and they have a huge number of apps available that can be installed with the click of a button. Packages like Wordpress, Drupal, iDrive backup, PHP, Perl, Apache, Plex, Git Server…

I got the NAS after a long recommendation from my good friend. I was hesitant at first, but when I realized my Seagate 3TB external hard drive was about to fail, I got the system right away. I installed two 8TB drives and absolutely fell in love with all of Synology's software and user interface. I set my photos, videos and VPN as the main gateway. I constantly connect to my mobile phone or my NAS at work when I need to download something instead of doing it on my work computer or just…

I've been using this DS218j for about a week now and it meets my needs very well. I just needed a place to store photos, music, and videos on my network, and a place to back up shared data files. I also wanted something to control a couple of security cameras. For media servers and surveillance applications, memory usage is around 45% and CPU usage is low, averaging around 10%. I have a couple of 2T drives configured as RAID1 (changed to RAID1 with standard SHR for better performance and…

Hidden in the technical details is the fact that it only supports the ext4 filesystem and not BTRFS (unlike DS218 and DS218+). This means you cannot control the size of the folder. If you use this with a Mac, Time Machine will eat up the entire drive. If you want to use one part for a time machine and the rest for something else (like paintings), you can't. To manage quotas you need BTRFS support. With Synology's very patient tech support, it only took about three hours to figure it out. If you

To my great regret, the active use of the NAS is associated with constant disappointment and communication with support, and this is still a pleasure. For a year of use, I still could not understand what the NAS is good for (except that it downloads torrents quickly because of fast drives). If I made the decision to buy now, then buying a NAS would prefer a subscription to a cloud service for storing files and photos + I would buy a media player with hdmi to watch movies. All other NAS'a…