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Synology DiskStation DS420j
Barebone Server NAS 4 bays SATA 6 Gb/s 2.5"/3.5"
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The Synology DiskStation DS420j is a 4-bay NAS server specifically designed for home users' data backup and file sharing. Its 64-bit Quad-Core processor offers great flexibility of use.
Barebone Server NAS 4 bays SATA 6 Gb/s 2.5"/3.5"
Max number of discs:
Overview
DS420j: An Affordable 4-Bay NAS Server for All Uses
The Synology DiskStation DS420j is a 4-bay NAS server that is perfectly suited for personal home use to allow you to develop your own cloud. Simple and powerful, the Synology DS420j offers you a new experience of effortless data sharing, media streaming, and cloud syncing with a sleek and stylish look.
Versatile Personal Cloud
The Synology DS420j is an affordable 4-bay network storage solution designed for home users. With Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM), an intuitive web-based operating system, the DS420j is easy to use and suitable even for new NAS users.
Equipped with a 64-bit 4-core processor, the DS420j offers an excellent sequential throughput of over 112MB/s for reading and writing in a Windows environment. It consumes only 21.71 Watts during access and 7.88 Watts during HDD hibernation. This makes the DS420j energy efficient and the ideal personal storage server, available 24/7.
File sharing and data synchronisation
between platforms
The Synology DS420j 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 DS420j 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 DS420j 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 DS420j is also Time Machine compatible, allowing you to easily backup 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:
- Realtek RTD1296 processor (Quad-Core 1.4 GHz)
- 1 GB DDR4 (no upgrade possible)
- 112 MB/s sequential read and write speed
- External file systems: 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
- Supports collaboration with Synology Chat, Synology Office online editor, and Synology Calendar scheduling assistant
- Maximum number of connections: 10 supported VPN protocols
- Synology Drive: Maximum hosted files: 100,000, maximum simultaneous connections for PC clients: 200
- 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: 16(2 free camera licenses included)
Specifications
Select your criteria
General information |
Product name |
Synology DiskStation DS420j |
Brand |
Synology | |
Model |
DS420J | |
Processor |
CPU frequency |
1.4 GHz |
Memory size |
1 GB | |
Memory type |
DDR4 | |
Network |
Network standard(s) |
10/100/1000 Mbps |
Network connector(s) |
1 X Gigabit Ethernet - RJ45 Female | |
Wake On LAN |
Yes | |
DLNA certification |
Yes | |
Storage |
Capacity |
0 GB |
Internal interface |
4 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 |
4 | |
RAID supported |
Yes | |
Supported RAID Modes |
0 | |
| 1 | ||
| 10 | ||
| 5 | ||
| 6 | ||
| JBOD | ||
| SHR | ||
File system |
Ext4 | |
Connector(s) |
2 X USB 3.0 | |
Compatibility |
Server functions |
Web |
| Video surveillance | ||
| Photo | ||
| Multimedia | ||
| iTunes | ||
| Printing | ||
| FTP | ||
Windows ADS |
Yes | |
iSCSI (SCSI encapsulation) |
Yes | |
Download without PC |
Yes | |
Scalable |
No | |
Supported OS |
Microsoft Windows 8 | |
| Microsoft Windows 7 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 10 | ||
| Mac OS X 10.11 or higher | ||
Physical characteristics |
Rackable |
No |
Sound level |
20.6 dB | |
Consumption |
21.71 W | |
Width |
168 mm | |
Height |
184 mm | |
Depth |
230 mm | |
Weight |
2.21 kg | |
Warranties |
Commercial warranty |
Seller 3 years |
Legal warranty |
See terms & conditions |
See all Synology products
Product referenced on 30 Jan 2020
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Synology DiskStation DS420j
Good hardware. Procedures for transferring disks from one station to another far too complex and rather poorly explained. Some of the software included in DSM 7.1 lacks flexibility and is not configurable enough.
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Number of reviews: 1 Average rating: 10
Synology always reliable
Experience since the 213, 418 and now the 420.significantly faster than 418.serves me for my Apple ( TimeMachine) and backup of data and media (same for Windows and Linux).SYNOLOGY a MUST
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Number of reviews: 1 Average rating: 10
Good product and advice
Easy installation and start-up as a replacement for a DS216J NAS: its network interface, hit by the storm, fizzled. I added gigabit surge protectors on my network links.
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Number of reviews: 36 Average rating: 9
No worries
Mounted to complement a DS213J, which is starting to fill up, this NAS installs in less than 1 hour....The DSM 7.0 version of this model is much simpler and more intuitive than the previous ones, more flexibility in creating shares.
The most time consuming part was the migration of 3.8TB of files to the raid. For the moment, only 2 HDD 8TB installed, the 3rd to follow very quickly for 16TB of storage in raid SHR.
Received Thursday afternoon, 100% operational by Saturday morning, very happy with this new equipment. If the reliability is the same as the first one, this DS420J will be with me for years....specially since there will be a slot available to reach 24To.....Review automatically translated
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