- Small factor - DSM is a really polish OS - A lot of youtube videos on how to setup the unit.
- Easy setup - DSM is great and intuitive - Good value compared to more expensive 4+ bay options - Powerful enough for Plex and online photo archive
- (still) powerful CPU with hardware video processing - upgradeable RAM - SSD cache/storage pool option
Set up is easy, web based interface is convenient and doesnt require drivers or custom apps to be installed, tons of extras like Docker and other integrated applications.
Very sleek and sturdy design. Supports 3.5" and 2.5" drives with no adapter needed (Huge Pro for me) Quiet (Talk about quiet...) The design on the drive trays with included rubber vibration dameners is amazing. Can't hear the 4 7200 RPM drives at all. Fans are also super quiet. Now, let's talk about the software. This thing has more features built in to it, just straight out of the box, than any other consumer grade NAS I have worked with. I thought WD NAS's were great.... Honestly, the options in this one is WAAAYY better. If you are on the fence about buying one of these, jump down and go buy it. I have worked with NAS's like NetApp and the like, and this is probably one of the best consumer grade products that I have seen. I am definitely sold on these products and plan to buy the expansion modules for this ASAP and fill em with drives....
- Excellent packaging. Was delivered in pristine condition. - Came fully charged. - High quality build to it (and pretty heavy too, I keep mine on the floor). - Only had it for several days but so far it's fantastic. I downloaded the latest version of the software and everything runs great. I used to get random stutters when watching YouTube but with this UPS I haven't had any. Crazy! To give you an idea I have my 144hz G-Sync monitor and gaming tower plugged in. Tower is an I7 4790K, 16GB DDR3 2400MHz, Z97 mobo, dual GTX 970's in SLI, and full custom watercooling with 5 120mm fans and 3 140mm fans. At idle my watt usage is 90 and the battery runtime is 72 minutes. haven't tested gaming load time yet.
It just works. And in the computer world thats a big win. Runs as fast as a local hard drive.
- Intel Celeron so you can use Plex with this - This version now as 4gb sodimm ram (I easily upgraded to 8gb) - 2.5gbe speed, works great - 2 m.2 gen3 slot - 1 pcie slot so you can add 10 gbe card - 2 usb 2.0 and 2 usb 3.2 (10 Gbps!).
I was able to replace 2 Raspberry Pi's and a repurposed older desktop with a single compact machine that is SO much easier to maintain. Why did I wait this long?
Good Interface, stable product, great price, good online Video training, easy to setup for basic functions, easy to link to vie home network, TV connections. Quite and good power management.
This was ridiculously easy to set up. Just install the drives in the screw-less carriers, plug them into the chassis, connect the eSATA cable and power up. The system sees all the new drives and displays the expansion chassis and drives in the GUI. Then you just choose how you want it setup (RAID5, RAID6 etc.) and the system does the rest. It builds the RAID and optimizes the RAID and filesystem. If you have SSD cache you can even split it between the main chassis array and the expansion array. I had two each 1TB SSDs (too large) and spilt the capacity between the two volumes. Once the RAID was complete I ran ATTO benchmarks on the both volumes and witnessed almost identical performance to both volumes. No performance penalty on the expansion chassis whatsoever. Also, the drives ran cool during all functions. I saw a maximum of 102 degrees F . I was concerned about the performance of the expansion chassis but no need for the concern. You can simply expand your primary volume across the two chassis but I would not recommend that. Separate volumes on each chassis is safer. I would recommend this expansion chassis to anyone wanting to expand their storage with a Synology NAS that supports the expansion chassis. It just works like it should and you can manage all your NAS storage through a single interface. I have the primary NAS connected via a bonded pair of GigE and can saturate both links and see around 220 MB/sec read or write sustained.
Many fans more then most servers comes with.
Affordable. And works very well
- Well constructed - Higher quality then most surge protectors, even ones higher in price
cost efficient server that performs. x86 is almost at its scaling limit with 5nm process unmatched 5ghz per core performance optimal for running cryptocurrency validators great ipmi
- Simple to work with and setup - Solidly built, no flimsy metal nor sharp edges that come with other cheaply built cases. - Very roomy interior, leaves room for large cpu cooler and plenty of hard drives - Very good fans included - Quiet (especially considering all the fans running)
- Well made - Nice little heatsink on the chip. - Fast ... really fast !
Easy to set-up Easy to be used by any devices Easily support 6 users ( 4 iphones + 2 android + 5 window laptop + 2 macosx + 2 fire tv) backup and streaming)