Dropbox free, and Amazon Drive (1TB option for now).

I found this NAS to be loaded with features, but complex to use even as a basic external hard-drive

Was bummed to find that the drive can't be pulled if the enclosure fails and put in any external enclosure to get access to the files

You're better off with a regular external hard drive for $80.

so my expensive cameras now eat up my hard drives.

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

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.

, then literally I took the hard drive out of my DS115 and plugged it into my DS118 and it took less then 30 minutes to get my new DS118 up and running.

Compared to the cost of data recovery (about $1300) for a wedding I lost, this is a bargain-even with the hard drives included.

Connecting a hard drive to a computer on your network and then accessing that over the network is a far better expenditure of time, MONEY and tears.

Nice, now it also has locks for the hard drives, big

Very pleased.... pop the hard drive in, followed the defaults, and within 5 minutes was downloading are pictures... and my wife even thinks it's easy to use....

I heard people say if you have a unit with platter hard drives they click a lot and are noisy, with an SSD and the fan speed set to

I have 4, 4 TB Western digital hard drives in

The next step was that it wanted to totally erase the drives I installed which I did not want to

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

They could save a lot more and sell a lot more, if it were just WiFi access to a hard-drive array

It would cost over $500 to upgrade to a pair of 8 TB hard drives.