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Synology 2-bay DiskStation DS223j (Diskless) $135.18 + Free Shipping
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Newegg Inc. via Walmart [walmart.com] has Synology 2-bay DiskStation DS223j (Diskless) on sale for $151.04 - $15.86 with clipped coupon on page = $135.18. Shipping is free.
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- Centralized Data Storage: Consolidate up to 36 TB of data, and enjoy 100% data ownership and multi-platform access from anywhere
- Next-Generation File System: Leverage file self-healing, lightning-fast data snapshots, and rapid data cloning
- Secure Sharing and Syncing: Safely access and share files and media from anywhere, and keep clients, colleagues and collaborators on the same page
- Simple Data Protection: Back up your media library or document repository to a variety of destinations
- Versatile Camera Surveillance: Protect your premises with flexible monitoring tools
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Newegg Inc. via Walmart [walmart.com] has Synology 2-bay DiskStation DS223j (Diskless) on sale for $151.04 - $15.86 with clipped coupon on page = $135.18. Shipping is free.
- Note, must be logged into your Walmart account to clip coupons.
- Centralized Data Storage: Consolidate up to 36 TB of data, and enjoy 100% data ownership and multi-platform access from anywhere
- Next-Generation File System: Leverage file self-healing, lightning-fast data snapshots, and rapid data cloning
- Secure Sharing and Syncing: Safely access and share files and media from anywhere, and keep clients, colleagues and collaborators on the same page
- Simple Data Protection: Back up your media library or document repository to a variety of destinations
- Versatile Camera Surveillance: Protect your premises with flexible monitoring tools
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Or you could just backup those smaller drives to a single external drive. Or two if you want to be super safe and store one in a different location.
I recently bought the 4 bay synology and so far I'm happy except the loud WD Red Pro hard drive, and I thought we can seamlessly connect to photos and files without the need for VPN (I use tailscale now, it's fine but it's hassle to remember to turn it on before you access files). Does anyone have a better way to access Photos without VPN back to NAS?
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I paid a little more than this I think back then- so you are getting a pretty good value.
Mine is still chumming along- just replaced one of the drives in the mirror, and it wasn't because anything was wrong with it, but it had like over 6 years of on time.
This is a strong value when it comes to "file sharing"; there are many options for file access.
The limits are there; and most are "speed" related.
CPU speed: The CPU is very slow by modern standards; skip transcoding. It isn't optimized for VPN (no AESNI hardware) nor wireguard (slow single core CPU speed). If you stick to file sharing, it will perform very well.
Hard drive: If your using HDD's, you really need CMR drives, with a health amount of cache. There is a significant performance decline if you decide to use SMR, and with the market cheapening out on the cache the performance really suffers. Like most NAS, synology handles requests from a single drive, but can load balance the incomming requests between the drives. Your maximum throughput on a single mechanical HDD will be around 4gbps, until the next bottle neck. They do not recommend mixing HDD/SSD's in the drive bays (exception to the ssd cache models).
Network: A single 1GB ethernet is also the limiter here; thus a good CMR drive will be more than adequate. Do not use SMR if you can avoid it!!! (SMR dropped my throughput significantly).
USB 3.2 gen 1 ports are good for about 5gbps. There are some.. potential limitations; I don't know if they physically give you ports or if the ports are independent. You can hook up external hard drives (I actually got hubs to work for extra USB ports). You can't mirror them (i.e. you cant add an extra mirror volume externally) but you can add a 4 bay external hard drive enclosure to increase storage. These are not usable to the system except as an extra volume. (there is a work around but it is not part of the design). I use it for media storage as they are low priority (If I loose the data it isn't the end of the world, I can get them again). They still saturate the 1gb line. HDD sleep works on the external drives, so I have backup drives also hooked into it.
You can run these units in single drive mode. It will work just fine, but there will be no redundancy.
THe DVR license is included, and actually quite good- However I don't currently use it as it means the hard drives never sleep and are constantly being written to.
It is Tailscale compatible, but tailscale is wireguard, and thus there is an overhead cost on an already taxed CPU. The alternative is to have a VPN gateway handle the other aspects.
Some have mentioned running a RPI or other sorts to basically get network storage. That you can, most decent routers have a USB share port (glinet, for example) of which you can do a share. Heck if you have an old linux or windows machine, you can certainly share off that too.
The issue is complexity and cost; there are some good dockers for linux to manage your photos and what not, but if you want a pretty much "hands free" low tinkering solution to access your files from your phone, laptop, desktop for yourself and your family, its really hard to beat for this price.
However, and this is the "regret" I mentioned earlier; its roughly 120 dollars more to get the 225+; this has a full intel celeron processor, comes standard with 2gb ram, with an empty slot to add another 4gb, 2 SATA Drive ports, and 2 NVME ports , and an additional 2.5gbe ethernet port.
To me, these additions justify the extra 120 bucks; the intel processor can do transcoding (plex, etc), can handle OpenVPN (AESNI), wireguard, etc. With container manager you can run dockers, thus able to run your pi hole, home assistant, etc.
Hard drives: Synology at one point had locked down their hard drive list so that you had to buy theirs. They have since removed it. That left a bad taste in some people's mouth.
Any type of drive is expensive. Large capacities especially so. But with file sizes always growing (especially if you keep your drone footage, go pro, etc. ) it isn't uncommon to come back with 30-50GB of data each time.
The Psudo bridge: Run 1 drive, no backups, sign up for a google account that gives you 2tb for a certain $ a month. do a mirror between the two or a backup between the two. Google AI pro accounts gets 5TB for 19.99 a month.
If you consider the cost (4tb CMR, NAS rated) at roughly 200 bucks, and you still need a backup plan (off site, online, etc) at an additional cost, the google AI pro with the 5tb is an insanely good deal.
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I recently bought the 4 bay synology and so far I'm happy except the loud WD Red Pro hard drive, and I thought we can seamlessly connect to photos and files without the need for VPN (I use tailscale now, it's fine but it's hassle to remember to turn it on before you access files). Does anyone have a better way to access Photos without VPN back to NAS?
You can also (on compatible routers) have tailscale on that instead of the NAS itself.
I place VPN in a different category than Tailscale- only because tailscale initiates its own connection, where as VPN you have to do it.
If you want a "non VPN" and "Non tailscale" endpoint, you can run the synology DNS- (usually a xxx.synology.me domain) where xxx is the name you give your NAS. You will have to open ports on your router to let connections through, and you would secure it through an SSL connection for web apps.
I personally don't like this as the surface of attack is quite large. When using as a file server, (i.e. mapping a drive) authentication options are limited; can't use OTP's, cant use security keys. Only the uname/password combo and SSL secure you.
Obviously you can have # of tries set so that it locks out the account, but that leads to DOS style attack surfaces. Again, why reveal to the world your inner workings of your network, when you can reveal only a tiny fraction.
You can also (on compatible routers) have tailscale on that instead of the NAS itself.
I place VPN in a different category than Tailscale- only because tailscale initiates its own connection, where as VPN you have to do it.
If you want a "non VPN" and "Non tailscale" endpoint, you can run the synology DNS- (usually a xxx.synology.me domain) where xxx is the name you give your NAS. You will have to open ports on your router to let connections through, and you would secure it through an SSL connection for web apps.
I personally don't like this as the surface of attack is quite large. When using as a file server, (i.e. mapping a drive) authentication options are limited; can't use OTP's, cant use security keys. Only the uname/password combo and SSL secure you.
Obviously you can have # of tries set so that it locks out the account, but that leads to DOS style attack surfaces. Again, why reveal to the world your inner workings of your network, when you can reveal only a tiny fraction.
Do you use any file storage to replace dropbox type of service? I am just asking because I use Synology Drive (test running it right now) For example, I want to attach a file in outlook from my NAS while I am away from home. Outlook (which has option to go into native android file browsing interface) lets me select all my file sources including cloud like dropbox (and Synology Drive) and then it acts like native file browser and I can attach any file. To get the file out of synology, I don't have to login to anything or get into tailscale.
Why can't synology photos work like that? You can actually see all your photos in Synology drive (but won't shared spaces for some reason)
I'm on DS925+
Do you use any file storage to replace dropbox type of service? I am just asking because I use Synology Drive (test running it right now) For example, I want to attach a file in outlook from my NAS while I am away from home. Outlook (which has option to go into native android file browsing interface) lets me select all my file sources including cloud like dropbox (and Synology Drive) and then it acts like native file browser and I can attach any file. To get the file out of synology, I don't have to login to anything or get into tailscale.
Why can't synology photos work like that? You can actually see all your photos in Synology drive (but won't shared spaces for some reason)
I'm on DS925+
As far as photos, there is synology photos, but last I tried it wasnt as good as say google photos.
My general idea is always to *not* have my files locally, especially on a computer or phone.
This way a lost computer doesn't physically possess any data that I might loose.
However this is why I dislike the synology drive. There's not enough granular control. It can pull files that you want, but it will automatically store locally. You can "delete" it (hopefully you have one way sync on otherwise you will delete both copies), but there's not like "never keep local copies, always work online".
Basically, this is why I dont use synology drive very often, and just use mapped drives. Tailscale is nice in this regard as you have a consistant IP address per device (thus your mapped drives are always found).
I use the drive sync which lets you sync your google drive to your synology. This helps mostly for photos, to ensure an archive copy.
I am also trying to get rid of data on laptop or phone an dkepe it on Nas or cloud. One complaint though, I use cryptomator for my files on a container within local drive on my laptop but I did not see option to replicate thisneoth synology.
Is synology drive or remote access safe enough without encrypting old records like taxes etc? I don't see file level protection or maybe folder protection.
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I am also trying to get rid of data on laptop or phone an dkepe it on Nas or cloud. One complaint though, I use cryptomator for my files on a container within local drive on my laptop but I did not see option to replicate thisneoth synology.
Is synology drive or remote access safe enough without encrypting old records like taxes etc? I don't see file level protection or maybe folder protection.
Synology drive can use SSL over https I think. The thing is, it depends on a number of factors and whether you encrypt your SMB shares. I dont know what cryptomator is.
Generally, the synology drive works by synchronizing a folder and its files. having another container encrypted within it might cause some problems.
Would it protect your old tax records? That depends. Generally, file access is limited by username/password. I never quite understood why people liked that method (showing files but then denying access)... instead of straight out not showing it, as if it doesnt even exist.
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