Synology DiskStation DS418J - Reviews

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2.9.2018

Upgrading from a 2 Bay DS216j to this unit gave me a couple of generations of enhancements and space for two more drives. The Upgrade process given on the Synology website worked as planned, however the device spent a huge amount of time expanding the storage pool, surface scanning and then committing the RAID re-silver. There are tweaks to prompt the Synology to hurry the job up a bit, but even with these applied it was very much a case of leave it for a day or two and check it when I got the email to say things were done.4 Bay Raid options are more flexible, I run my DS418j with minimal services and maximum security hardening and no WAN side access.It's used for backing up business data and handling resource files for a design agency and consultancy. This unit handles the work without any issues and is responsive over our Gigabit LAN.I wouldn't recommend this unit for Plex and 4k streaming duties, if you want to do that sort of load you'd be far better looking at a none j model or a Play model as these Synology systems have better CPU, Memory and Dual LAN ports to ease traffic across the Network.For SME duties though it's hard to beat the value and reliability of the j series.Our unit is running WD Gold 6Tb, WD Red 3Tb x2 and Red Pro 6Tb drive and at some point in the future I'll probably cycle out the older 3Tb and add in 6Tb's or whatever disk is at the best value point at that juncture.Accoustically this unit is well insulated although I do stand mine on jumbo sized sound deadening feet and make sure everything is tight inside. I've noticed the unit is slightly quieter than the DS216j despite running more drives. I expect this is due to better air circulation internally and a slightly better build quality on the case.It's really not suited to Hot Swapping disks, there's too much fiddling for this sort of usage and too many screws. Again I didn't buy it to be tinkered with regularly, I like the Synology's because you can just configure them, automate and lock them away in the server rack.Working in conjunction with a UPS helps to make the device safe from yet another set of risks, and if you are super wary of Crypto-lockers (remember Syno locker anyone?) then you can always ghost out time based backups to a whole range of destinations...cloud, another Synology, a USB external drive, LTO or RDX.Encryption is easy enough to comply with GDPR.Overall I think a Synology is well worth the investment if you want reliability with minimum on-going tinkering or the kind of eye watering tedium associated with FreeNAS. Life is way too short to be reading and keeping up to date with something like FreeNAS unless you live for that kind of thing in which case why would you be reading this review anyways?

5.6.2018

I bought this to replace an old DS413J which has been running 24/7 for almost 5 years.The DS418J with it's better specs is noticeably faster, read/write speeds are good and there is very little fan noise.Synology's software makes setting up and controlling a breeze. Using Quickconnect I can easily connect remotely to the NAS and stream content off it.I recommend it to anybody who wants to stream and store files. If you just want somewhere to back your files up locally and nothing else then personally I would look for a large capacity external drive.

22.10.2017

Product works as expected, has been working well for 3 weeks. I'm impressed with the quality of the Synology software, its security updates. Although the software is really ugly, I can make it work easily enough. I bought drives separately because cheaper (WD-RED).I'm mostly using it as a Time Machine destination for my two Mac computers (laptop & desktop). Over time I expect to start using other features.Commendable product after 3 weeks of ownership.

15.8.2018

I use this with 4x 6TB drives, gives a lot of storage space. While the unit itself is very quiet the Toshiba drives are quite noisy. Mine is in a different room.The Synology DiskStation Manager software (DSM) is easy enough to use. I connect to it from both PC and Mac with no problems.Put it this way, this is the third DS41x unit I've purchased for my ever increasing storage needs. All three are rock solid.

8.8.2018

Works just as I wanted it to do and there are always update for the firmware. The only problem is not with the NAS but with the drives which are put into it.