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Synology 4 Bay NAS DiskStation DS418 (Diskless)

Size:4-bay; 2GB DDR4  |  Style:DS418 Synology Disk Station DS418 is a high-performance and versatile 4-bay NAS, specifically designed for offic...

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Reviews around lot (5.00 of 5)

  • the transcode feature is a joke, lots of format video/audio cannot be supported
  • Besides that (which was one of the main reason why i bought it), works very smooth, lot of features and apps, and incredibly easy install phase
  • A lot of people would highly recommend teaming it with a cloud option, but with 3TB of data, I hate waiting 6 months for my data to be finished uploading to the cloud
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Reviews around thing (5.00 of 5)

  • This thing is very fast and has more features than I could ever use.
  • Tons of room for storage, robust, configurable- just a lovely thing I'm happy to have finally sprung for.
  • I eagerly unpacked it and it looked straightforward enough, which is a good thing since the only instructions was a single sheet folded up which looked like it was written for an ikea product.
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Reviews around setup (5.00 of 5)

  • After an easy setup and install I found the device lost 50% of it's transfer speed going from 72MB/s to 32-35 MB/s (SMB2) after a wek of use.
  • Setup is very straightforward, and just involves plug & play--what could be easier?
  • This was a good lesson as to why to have offsite backup, but also made me realise I needed a more robust RAID setup at home
  • The quality of the hardware is great, installing DSM 6.2 beta meant I got BTRFS support, and the setup was relatively painless (although the wizard makes it hard to do custom installations from the start)

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Reviews around expectation (5.00 of 5)

  • I highly recommend this unit, its exceeded my expectations.
  • Far exceeds my expectations as a NAS.

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Reviews around phone (5.00 of 5)

  • * Free, excellent phone support
  • * Free, excellent phone support

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Reviews around bay (5.00 of 5)

  • I bought the best 1-bay Synology in a pinch to get backups back online, only to find Synology does not support full-disk encryption
  • It is tempting to go with the more affordable 2-bay option but you need to upgrade your hard drives in the future to add storage and larger drives are more expensive than lower capacity drives.
  • Plus, I still have another free bay in case I need to add more storage cheaply
  • I owned synology for a long while now and this is the best and fastest 2 bay one ever

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Reviews around tech support (5.00 of 5)

  • You will spend way too much time in set-up, trouble shooting and on tech support calls
  • Apparently emailing tech support goes into a black hole as well
  • Also i needed to contact tech support and they were helpful.

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Reviews around device (5.00 of 5)

  • But this is a really impressive device that syncs to the cloud services I have to give me an off-site backup, I can back my PC up to the NAS which backs it up to the cloud, and now I have a home media server.
  • Synology has a really solid device here
  • My only complaint, which is my fault, is that the device is not strong enough to support Plex Media Server on its own.

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Reviews around performance (5.00 of 5)

  • This is a very reasonable priced box with great performance.
  • Having said that, the performance is excellent even when using one Ethernet connection.
  • O performance is fantastic, the NIC bonding works really well.

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Reviews around experience (5.00 of 5)

  • What started out as a good experience turned sour real fast with that type of customer support.
  • This has been a fun little learning experience for me.
  • I've had a Buffalo TeraStation for years, but my experience with this Synology has been outstanding

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Reviews around product (4.03 of 5)

  • Nice to see a manufacturer actively improving their products months after purchase.
  • - The WD products were never particularly stable as a network backup target
  • Those negatives aside, it's a pretty good product.
  • I know this is a bit long for a review, but I just want to share my findings with everyone and hopefully be helpful to the Synology regarding their future product
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Reviews around box (3.61 of 5)

  • This is a very reasonable priced box with great performance.
  • Great box, works as advertised DOES NOT WORK FOR PLEX
  • Great box, works as advertised DOES NOT WORK FOR PLEX
  • I bought it specifically for NFS and iSCSI and wasn't even aware how much this little box is capable of.

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Reviews around nas (3.22 of 5)

  • This is a great NAS that does alot more than just host files.
  • Regardless, the ease of use is a huge bonus, the fact that I could plug this in and do some minor setup to have myself a great NAS is great
  • At this point, I'm stuck between standing up another server for these two applications (using the NAS as data storage only and hoping that transfer speeds from this app server and the NAS aren't too slow to devices), or trying to sell this product and purchase the DS218+ model
  • This NAS is NOT supported by PLEX which is the primary reason to get a NAS for me
  • One thing that is tough to beat, and a real treat, if you need to chat with a NAS expert, no problem, they are there
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Reviews around news (3.04 of 5)

  • The other good news is, for those of you who don't have your heart set on Plex, there is an application for the Amazon FireStick called Archos that seems to work very well in my opinion
  • The good news I found is, though there is some stuttering it is pretty easy to work around it by pausing some of the back up services you may have running while tyring to streaming video, which, while its not ideal, I don't find to be that big of a deal given the price point compared to other solutions
  • My conclusion is I have some good news and some bad news
  • Fear not though, I did find an alternate solution I will share in the good news
  • My conclusion is I have some good news and some bad news
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Reviews around drive (1.29 of 5)

  • Running as an internal movie server transfer all my movies via usb 3.0 Using a patriot fast drive , bought a 6 inch usb 3 cable to hang off the NAS port USB to
  • You're better off with a regular external hard drive for $80.
  • It would cost over $500 to upgrade to a pair of 8 TB hard drives.
  • Dropbox free, and Amazon Drive (1TB option for now).
  • The upgrade procedure I followed was backing up my unit to an external hard drive, made sure my DS115 was upgraded to the latest DSM versions
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More about Synology 4 Bay NAS DiskStation DS418 (Diskless)

  • Size:4-bay; 2GB DDR4  |  Style:DS418 Synology Disk Station DS418 is a high-performance and versatile 4-bay NAS, specifically designed for offices and home users to effectively manage, protect, and share data
  • Its new 64-bit quad-core processor supports volume management of large-capacity storage and 10-bit 4K H.265 video transcoding to enrich multimedia entertainment
  • Synology DS418 is backed by Synology's 2-year limited warranty.