Review on Diskless Synology DiskStation DS418-4 Bay NAS for Enhanced Storage by Mateusz Wysokiski ᠌

In short, I’ve been using it for a couple of months now, I’m happy like an elephant, it’s enough for my needs: 1) I use 2 disks in raid 0 to store movies, music, software and other things that can be downloaded back from the Internet if something happens 2) I use 2 other disks in raid 1 for photos, digitized video and other very important things so as not to lose I set up Plex on it, I watch 4K movies on mobile devices and smart TV, but keep in mind that this model does not know how to hardware transcode, if you want to watch 4k movies on a full hd TV, you need more expensive models for this. Also, more expensive models already have upgrade options (throw RAM, put ssd for caching). I also use the storage to have access to my files via the Internet. An important addition, after a week of use, I immediately changed my native coolers, because I could not endure this crackle, although it was not loud (but, of course, everything will get worse with time). I bought a couple of Noctua NF-A9-FLX as a replacement, now I only hear the chirping of some disks somewhere in the background :) In general, if you need a simple storage for 4 disks without any bells and whistles, and for it to be friendly in setting up, I think this model is very worthy.