I believe the issue has to do with Synology not supporting my Solid State Drive

I don't see myself needing to expand the hard drive quantities anytime

But if you are an average user, only thing you can possibly do is use it as a hard drive and save your data on those discs

If you get this NAS, make sure the drives you put in are specifically NAS drives [regular hard drives aren't durable enough] and on Synology's compatability list to ensure it all goes smoothly for you.

At night DiskStation runs a cloud backup to Dropbox and one to an external hard drive

/s High-Performance Hard Drive for Desktop NAS Systems Retail Packaging 0S04005 drives and had it up on the network in less than an hour

I bought the Synology 2 Bay NAS DiskStation DS218+ after inheriting a couple of 6TB hard drives 2 weeks ago

As it comes without hard drives I had to rely on youtube to figure out how to start

I purchased this NAS six months ago, dropped in two 4TB Western Digital hard drives and it works like a charm

Easy drive installation, easy setup via the Synology website

Even with the IronWolf Pro drives which many report to be a "noisy" drive, this system is extremely quiet and I never hear it running.

By that I mean the only protection this expensive NAS unit and hard drives had from being dropped on the ground was the thin cardboard box and two small inflatable plastic air bags

Synology has a list on their website with compatible drives

I was horrified when I opened the Amazon box to find my new NAS and accompanying hard drives unsecured like this

I have to install 5 new enterprise hard drives and build a new raid volume.

I then had a super fast SSD drive with all the pictures on it

Excellent performance combined with the WD Red hard drives, very satisfied.

and it was literally as easy as taking the drives out of my old one, putting them in my new one, and after a few mouse clicks, it adapted to the new model like nothing ever happened

Make sure you buy the compatible drives!

If the cloud fails, which is highly unlikely, I can pull everything from the external hard drive

If you get this NAS, make sure the drives you put in are specifically NAS drives [regular hard drives aren't durable enough] and on Synology's compatability list to ensure it all goes smoothly for you.

I was able to migrate 2 x 2TB hard drives to the new NAS with ease

I believe the issue has to do with Synology not supporting my Solid State Drive

I had more hard drives than I could fit in the 216 from the FreeNAS build, and the 216 was capable but sluggish.

the initial hard drive scan is incredibly annoying (several days), but what can you do

It deleted all the files from my computer's hard drive.

When it worked, it was great, so I'm leaving 3 stars, assuming this will be made right and my data was not lost from the hard drives

-Due to customability setup takes more time-No ability to hide certain Volumes, ie external hard drive used as backup-System always seems to be indexing (haven’t really figured out what this is for yet, it seems to have to do with the ability to search for files, but it shouldn’t be indexing if no changes are made)-Synology Drive opens in a new window instead of

I went with a pair of Toshiba X300 6TB Performance Desktop and Gaming Hard Drive

Kind of a light weight feel to it, plastic frame and hard drive housings, but later when it’s loaded with drives the weight savings was appreciated

Hard drives snapped in, no tools needed

3 USB 3.0 ports is really nice, especially the one on the front which makes it easier to attach a flash drive or external / portable hard drive

3 USB 3.0 ports is really nice, especially the one on the front which makes it easier to attach a flash drive or external / portable hard drive

I bought the version that came without hard drives

I enjoyed the 1st one so much that when the hard drives started to fail 6 yrs later, I realized I had to replace it

I use Synology NAS w/ Enterprise class hard drives to store 6MP audio and video surveillance