Review on Zyxel NAS326: Personal Cloud Storage [2-Bay] with Remote Access & Media Streaming – Disks Not Included by Mateusz Sztrekier ᠌

Name: Zyxel NAS326: Personal Cloud Storage [2-Bay] with Remote Access & Media Streaming – Disks Not Included
Item: Zyxel NAS326: Personal Cloud Storage [2-Bay] with Remote Access & Media Streaming – Disks Not Included
Rating: 2

July 10, 2023

Does not meet my expectations, it was not worth buying.

The strategy called for the purchase of a NAS with two disks, followed by the construction of a raid system that would be both quick and capable of storing movies and television series. Only in jbod mode was a speed that might be considered acceptable overall. It found out that the hard drives were excessively noisy, just like the NAS device itself.

Recommendation. It is recommended to utilize a NAS with a single disk and install an SSD drive in it. it requires less cooling, it generates less noise, and it makes less of an impact on the environment in terms of energy use.

And zyxel It's not something I would suggest.

Pros

The cost is reasonable, and the speed of 4k seems to be adequate.

Cons

It was discovered that the speed in raid mode was significantly slower than the pace in jbod mode. As a direct consequence of this, I wound up having twice the amount of space that I had anticipated obtaining. There were multiple occasions in which the NAS simply froze and required a powerless restart. Because the NAS was not in the location specified in the instructions, I was unable to tune in. Because of this, I was required to download a specialized program and configure it using that application. The most recent version of the firmware