These are very reliable (with the right drives, anyway--I now use HGST Deskstar

I had built a storage server using LSI raid controller with many hard drives.

The only way to load folders onto your hard drives (rather than individual files) is to drag and drop.

I FINALLY made the LEAP 😂.For YEARS, I’ve looked at both the Synology & the QNAP, and after a recent “disaster” I decided to buy this product (a few YouTube videos/reviews also helped as well).Let me go though my [usual] review, where I list The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of my experiences (and, of this product).My disaster came with a huge thud, when my beloved Drobo 5D started giving me WEIRD drive errors, where my digital “life” came into peril

Beyond notifications about power events and pending SMART failures on hard drives, this one offers notifications about firmware updates, general system status, drive capacity, and a lot of other options

No more cramming hard drives into my PC to store everything.

It's expensive up-front, but it allows me to buy hard drives in smaller capacities

After long research, I bought the DiskStation DS2415+ 12-Bay NAS Server diskless, and I populated its hard drives by myself

It's already been a huge help when I've had to download assets needed while I've been out of town (whereas in the past, if they weren't on my portable drive, I waited until I got home or re created them)

I also changed the fans (NF-F12 industrialPPC-2000, 3pin) since I am using 7200rpm hard drives.

I use it primarily as a file server, and it replaced several external hard drives

I removed the hard drives from the old unit, and put them in the new one