Synology DiskStation DS220j

Barebone Server NAS 2 bays

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The Synology DiskStation DS220j is a 2-bay NAS server that is perfectly suited for personal home use to allow you to build your own cloud. Simple and powerful, the Synology DS220j offers you a new experience in data sharing.

Barebone Server NAS 2 bays

Overview

DS220j: An Affordable 2-Bay NAS Server for All Uses

The Synology DiskStation DS220j is a 2-bay NAS server that is perfectly suited for personal home use to allow you to develop your own cloud. Simple and powerful, the Synology DS220j 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 DS220j is an affordable 2-bay network storage solution designed for home users. With Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM), an intuitive web-based operating system, the DS220j is easy to use and suitable even for new NAS users.

Equipped with a 64-bit 4-core processor, the DS220j offers an excellent sequential throughput of over 112MB/s for reading and writing in a Windows environment. It consumes only 12.46 Watts during access and 5.08 Watts during HDD hibernation. This makes the DS220j energy efficient and the ideal personal storage server, available 24/7.

Cross-platform Sharing and Synchronization

The Synology DS220j 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 DS220j 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 DS220j 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 DS220j 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)
  • 512 MB DDR4
  • 112 MB/s sequential read and write speed
  • External file system: ext4, ext3, FAT, NTFS, HFS+, exFAT(via additional license)
  • 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: 12(2 free camera licenses included)
Specifications
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General information

Product name

Synology DiskStation DS220j

Brand

Synology

Model

DS220J

Processor

CPU frequency

1.4 GHz

Memory size

512 MB

Memory type

DDR4

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

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

Hard drive format

3" 1/2

Hard drive

Without hard drive

Number of discs

0

Max number of discs

2

RAID supported

Yes

Supported RAID Modes

0
1
JBOD
SHR
Single Disk

File system

Ext4

Connector(s)

2 X USB 3.0

Compatibility

Server functions

Multimedia
Video surveillance
iTunes
Web
Photo
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

18.2 dB

Consumption

12.46 W

Width

100 mm

Height

165 mm

Depth

225.5 mm

Weight

0.88 kg

Warranties

Commercial warranty

Seller 3 years

Legal warranty

See terms & conditions

Product referenced on 12 Mar 2020

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  • by Juvénal
    Posted on 20 Mar 2024
    Bought on 15 Dec 2020 from LDLC
    Number of reviews: 2 Average rating: 10

    At the top

    Super NAS
    Easy to set up
    Quiet and discreet
    Automatic back-up
    Cloud extra .

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  • by GillesR
    Posted on 1 Nov 2023
    Bought on 23 Oct 2023 from LDLC
    Number of reviews: 1 Average rating: 10

    Very good for the job.

    When you want an unpretentious nas system for backups and exchanging data between machines, this product is perfect, and more than capable enough. For iScsi or smb3, it's possible, but it's better to go upmarket.
    The DSM system is as nice as ever.
    Nice installation too, and sufficient hardware, very quiet. In short, I'm happy.

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  • by MaithanhN
    Posted on 11 Jun 2023
    Bought on 25 Nov 2022 from LDLC
    Number of reviews: 1 Average rating: 8

    DSM still top-notch, but HW lousy (noisy fan)

    Soft top - rotten HW
    I put an SSD in place of the HDD to act as a server for my wifi chain.
    Unfortunately, all you can hear now is the fan. It's even louder than on my old 213j.
    I'm going to try and replace it with a Noctua, but I'll just have to pray that it's compatible with the PdR's rotation speed.
    At this price, it's petty to have such a low-end HW.

    The software is always top-notch: On a server with Hyperbackup and Glacier from AWS. Nothing to say (apart from reading the documentation).

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  • by PeetV
    Posted on 20 Mar 2023
    Bought on 17 Feb 2023 from LDLC
    Number of reviews: 2 Average rating: 10

    Synology

    Everything works without a hitch. It's just that you have to type in a lot of characters for the notice.......

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  • by FabienD
    Posted on 29 Dec 2022
    Bought on 25 Nov 2022 from LDLC
    Number of reviews: 8 Average rating: 6

    Good software, average hardware

    The software offer is really well done: rich and easy to implement.

    The hardware is really average: very variable data rates, very low-end and noisy fan, CPU that saturates quickly when asked to do several things.

    I recommend it for a very basic use and provided that you can put it in a place where the noise of its fan will not be a problem.

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