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    Synology 2 bay NAS DiskStation DS218j (Diskless)

    • The largest hard drive on the compatibility list is 2TB
    • Is definitely not fan noise, and was not coming from installed hard drives (I was using ssd's).
    • If I were to buy again, I would advise buying a regular sized Synology NAS that uses regular desktop size hard drives to go to higher capacities with cheaper drives.
    • Now that it was mapped this is where I could see the drive in Lightroom to clear some of my older photos off my laptops' hard drive
    • The first initial set up (depending how big you hard drives are) took a long time for
    • Instructions for installing the hard drives was incorrect.
    • The drives are redundant and monitor themselves
    • One of the other factors for me shutting off the hibernation in the Synology systems was after a bit of online searching (as to why the drive would not backup due to the hibernation as I found out) is that the WD red drives will put themselves to sleep when needed and according to some the on and off hibernation of the drives COULD (debatable on the forums one way or the other) put extra wear on them
    • I own one of their previous models of this device (213j) which suddenly filled my hard drive (in SHR RAID configuration) and brought the system to a degraded status
    • Is this a good drive?
    • The DS416s takes the 2.5" drives, very portable device if needed, holds up to 8TB of storage
    • The Cloud Station Backup tool DOES NOT support backing up windows drives (C: drive) which makes it pretty much totally useless for MS Windows users
    • I don't think you'll see much throughput difference from mechanical hard drives vs. SSDs, so I'd save the money and go with mechanical.
    • Now that it was mapped this is where I could see the drive in Lightroom to clear some of my older photos off my laptops' hard drive
    • Installed the hard drive, connected to lan and powered up 7 minutesSetup - Software install, configure drive 15 minutes as it did all of it's updates
    • our computers are finally backed up and we won't lose any data if their hard drives crash
    • My hard drives, my data, my
    • Realised the drives are not hot-swap like the WD (my mistake I guess) but my main gripe is that it is just so slow
    • There are higher capacity hard drives that are too thick for the size
    • So many repetitive failures of hard drives, I can't beleive the product is such poor quality
    • If one hard-drive fails, we will have our pictures in another location!
    • It also works well as a host for plugging in external USB hard drives.
    • so I have some confidence that I will get plenty of notice if one of my hard drives fails.
    • My fault this is an SSD DiskStation, not a standard full-size​ Hard Drive DiskStation
    • Spend the money to get good quality hard drives for it.
    • So you have one USB port going to your UPS and then one for a hard drive for
    • Spend the money to get good quality hard drives for it.
    • I figured this out after a few days and an email from the backup program sending me an email that the "x" drive had been failing to backup for a few days
    • But as far as being a reliable backup drive, things are pretty good
    • We are constantly taking pictures and without having to find a cord and plug stuff in, we can use wifi to save our pictures onto two hard-drives!