I haven't even gotten in to all the other stuff this thing can do and it's already covering the functions of my home built solution for a fraction of the price and with great performance in a space saving and low power consumption rack mount solution

Excellent appliance, great performance on it's rank.

but I saw that one of the packages available was MariaDB which is a MYSQL clone.

The packaging was pretty good but nothing fancy in the box (just the instructions to install the rack ear pieces and the sleds for the HDDs).The front of the unit itself felt a little "cheap"

And having hot swap is a great, great feature, a must I can say

I already had a couple of Diskstations but I need hot swap, more processing power and a rack layout for my home-office setup (I already have rack UPS, rackeable gigabit switches, load balance router, Power Distribution Units and Audio units like EQ, preamp, amp, etc).With this new

And having hot swap is a great, great feature, a must I can say

I support RS814, 815 and 814+, 815+ in some SMB and has been working as a charm

I always recommend Synology

The packaging was pretty good but nothing fancy in the box (just the instructions to install the rack ear pieces and the sleds for the HDDs).The front of the unit itself felt a little "cheap"

It works great!Now, why four stars instead of five.

Excellent appliance, great performance on it's rank.

Setup was an absolute breeze as the web interface more or less walked me through setting up the device, specifying the RAID type, and creating shared folders.

They've done a great job with this as it is as responsive and intuitive as my windows desktop.

They've done a great job with this as it is as responsive and intuitive as my windows desktop.

They've done a great job with this as it is as responsive and intuitive as my windows desktop.