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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 |
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Product referenced on 12 Mar 2020
Super NAS
Easy to set up
Quiet and discreet
Automatic back-up
Cloud extra .
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.
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).
Everything works without a hitch. It's just that you have to type in a lot of characters for the notice.......
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.