Opinion on receipt and installation
Hello
The delivery of the unit was on time, without any problems
I had retrieved the disks from my old Synology, the transfer and installation went well
Hello
The delivery of the unit was on time, without any problems
I had retrieved the disks from my old Synology, the transfer and installation went well
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.
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
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.
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.....
Used with 4 x 10TB drives in raid 5 for file storage. Good value, easy to use and set up, it's synology!
A few holes in the package but we are used to that... The package is well protected.
Otherwise, it is in order.
NAS buy to store photos and videos of the family.
It is very compact and quiet, the Synology software is not bad.
I'm not sure how to use this product, but it's a product that's meant to be used by people who know how to set it up.