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Synology DiskStation DS120j

Barebone Server 1-bay NAS

Synology DiskStation DS120j Barebone Server 1-bay NAS
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The Synology DiskStation DS120j is a 1-bay NAS server that is perfectly suited for personal home use to allow you to build your own cloud. Simple and powerful, the Synology DS120j offers you a new experience in data sharing.

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Overview

DS120j: An Affordable NAS Server for All Uses

The Synology DiskStation DS120j is a 1-bay NAS server that is perfectly suited for personal home use to allow you to develop your own cloud. Simple and powerful, the Synology DS120j offers you a new experience of effortless data sharing, media streaming, and cloud syncing in a neat and stylish appearance. The Synology DS120j is covered by a 2-year limited warranty from Synology.

Versatile Personal Cloud

The Synology DS120j is an entry-level 1-bay network storage solution designed for home users. With Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM), an intuitive web-based operating system, the DS120j is easy to use and suitable even for new NAS users.

Equipped with a 2-core processor, the DS120j offers excellent sequential throughput of over 112MB/s reading and 106MB/s writing in a Windows environment. It consumes only 9.81 Watts during access and 4.68 Watts during HDD hibernation. This makes the DS120j energy efficient and the ideal personal storage server, available 24/7.

File sharing and data synchronisation
between platforms

The Synology DS120j supports a full set of network protocols, providing a smooth file sharing experience on Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms. Cloud Sync allows you to sync between your Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Baidu, and Box storage and your personal DiskStation at home. Synology Drive allows you to sync files on mobile devices, Windows, macOS, and Linux to keep everything up to date effortlessly.

The DS120j combines smooth file sharing capability with high level of security, including HTTPS support, built-in firewall, and multiple account and IP auto-blocking mechanisms.

Your personal media library

The DS120j helps you easily manage and share your media content across Windows, macOS and Linux platforms. With Video Station, you can organize your personal digital video library with comprehensive multimedia information. Audio Station comes with Internet radio, supports lossless audio formats, and allows you to play music via DLNA and AirPlay devices.

Photo Station 's intuitive design allows professional photographers to effortlessly organize photos into custom categories or smart albums and link to them on social networking websites with a few clicks.

Synology Moments, an all-new photo solution designed for home and personal users, offers a modern browsing experience with mobile photo backup, photo sharing, and similar photo detection.

Easy Backup Solutions

Synology Hyper Backup offers multi-version backup with block-level incremental backup and cross-over deduplication. It optimizes storage utilization and backs up data to multiple destinations, such as local shared folders, external hard drives, network shared folders, rsync servers and public cloud services.

Synology Drive Client backs up your Windows, Mac and Linux computers to protect important files. The DS120j is also compatible with Time Machine, which allows you to easily perform backups from your Mac to a Synology NAS server.

Available Anytime, Anywhere

Synology provides mobile apps that allow you to enjoy your media library anytime and anywhere. Available on iOS and Android platforms, DS photo, DS audio, DS video, and DSfile provide access to your Synology NAS via Photo Station, Audio Station, Video Station, and File Station respectively.

QuickConnect allows connection to your Synology NAS via a secure and customizable address for instant access to media and business files on any Windows, Mac, and Linux computer, laptop, or mobile device.

Key Features :

  • Marvell A3720 Processor (Dual-Core 800 MHz)
  • 512 MB DDR3
  • 112 MB/s read and 106 MB/s write sequential throughput
  • External file system: ext4, ext3, FAT, NTFS, HFS+, exFAT(via additional licence)
  • Network protocols: SMB, AFP, NFS, FTP, WebDAV, CalDAV, iSCSI, Telnet, SSH, SNMP, VPN (PPTP, OpenVPN, L2TP)
  • Security: Firewall, shared folder encryption, SMB encryption, FTP over SSL/TLS, SFTP, rsync over SSH, automatic connection blocking, Let's Encrypt support, HTTPS (customizable encryption suite)
  • Single or bi-directional sync with public cloud storage providers including Alibaba Cloud OSS, Amazon Drive, Amazon S3 compatible storage system, Backblaze B2, Baidu Cloud, Box, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, hubiC, MegaDisk, Microsoft OneDrive, OpenStack Swift compatible storage system, Tencent COS, WebDAV servers and Yandex Disk
  • Maximum number of connections: 10 supported VPN protocols
  • Synology Drive: Maximum hosted files: 10,000, maximum simultaneous connections for PC clients: 5
  • iOS/Android apps: Synology Drive, DS audio, DS photo, DS video, DS cam, DS file, DS finder, DS note, Moments
  • Maximum number of IP cameras: 5(2 free camera licenses included)
  • 2-year manufacturer's warranty
Information provided by our tech department A 2.5" hard disk rack is required in order to use a 2.5" hard disk.
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General information

Product name

 Synology DiskStation DS120j

Brand

 Synology

Model

 DS120J

Processor

CPU frequency

 800 MHz

Memory size

 512 MB

Memory type

 DDR3

Network

Network standard(s)

 10/100/1000 Mbps

Network connector(s)

 1 X RJ45 Female

Wake On LAN

 Yes

DLNA certification

 Yes

Storage

Capacity

 0 GB

Internal interface

 1 X Serial ATA 6Gb/s (SATA Revision 3)

Hard drive format

 2" 1/2
3" 1/2

Hard drive

 Without hard drive

Number of discs

 0

Max number of discs

 1

RAID supported

 No

File system

 Ext4

Connector(s)

 2 X USB 2.0

Compatibility

Server functions

 FTP
Printing
iTunes
Multimedia
Photo
Video surveillance
Web

Windows ADS

 Yes

iSCSI (SCSI encapsulation)

 Yes

Download without PC

 Yes

Scalable

 No

Supported OS

 Mac OS X 10.11 or higher
Linux
Microsoft Windows 10
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows 8
Microsoft Windows 8.1

Physical characteristics

Rackable

 No

Consumption

 9.81 W

Width

 71 mm

Height

 166 mm

Depth

 224 mm

Weight

 700 g

Warranties

Commercial warranty

 Seller 3 years

Legal warranty

 See terms & conditions

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Product referenced on 1 Nov 2019

Customer reviews
Global rating
9/10
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  • by Alain L
    Posted on 6 Mar 2024
    Bought on 5 Feb 2024 from LDLC
    Number of reviews: 19 Average rating: 9

    All is well

    The product is exactly what I was looking for. It works very well, quietly and unobtrusively.
    On the other hand, fortunately there are very clear online tutorials for installing this Synology NAS. In fact, I find it totally scandalous that the pseudo "installation guide" is just a piece of confetti that says: Plug in the 220V! The Synology site isn't any clearer, as you have to dive into the sub-paragraphs of the downloads to find the right one, but still without any explanation.
    Communication isn't bad, because it's non-existent! It makes you want to rate it badly, but the end result is excellent, so I'm accommodating.

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  • by MathiasM
    Posted on 30 Dec 2023
    Bought on 1 Feb 2023 from LDLC
    Number of reviews: 1 Average rating: 10

    Very satisfied

    Meets my expectations, very good product, easy to use and quick to install, I recommend it with my eyes closed.

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  • by peka
    Posted on 5 Dec 2023
    Bought on 6 Nov 2023 from LDLC
    Number of reviews: 33 Average rating: 8

    Beautifully made, but not really simple

    It's a beautiful device that smacks of quality (we'll see when we use it...). In any case, it looks great on the desktop!
    On the other hand, I still haven't fully understood the plethora of apps, obviously designed for professionals.
    I can use it, but not yet in the way I want.
    Say, Mr Synology, couldn't you make a little app for the "twats who just want to back up their home PCs"? Something simple to understand, you know?

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  • by Francoise B
    Posted on 27 Oct 2023
    Bought on 29 Sep 2023 from LDLC
    Number of reviews: 1 Average rating: 10

    Product as described

    Fast and careful delivery, intuitive and quick configuration, the NAS works very well.
    I recommend the synology NAS

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  • by BenP
    Posted on 26 Oct 2023
    Bought on 27 Sep 2023 from LDLC
    Number of reviews: 2 Average rating: 10

    a good solution for TimeMachine

    Configuring the DS120J is a bit tricky with the mobile app, but the web interface is very easy to use on a PC, once you've found the NAS's IP address.
    Works perfectly with TImeMachine for Mac OS.

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