Finally, the screw holes in the case are made entirely of plastic and it would be easy to overtighten then and strip the thread, so be careful. Further, the design of the bay is such that you have to angle a screwdriver slightly to turn the screws.

It is not difficult to make bays in which drives can be securely fitted without screws. Probably not the right choice for this NAS.įitting the drive is not difficult, but neither it is as easy as it could be. You will need a SATA SSD and a 3.5' adapter. It is much more expensive for the same amount of storage. SSD is much faster but on a home NAS that is compromised by accessing it over a network. What about SSD? This is the future of storage (though the man from Seagate at Synology’s press event says hard drives will continue for a decade or more). The IronWolf Pro is faster and specified for a longer life (no promises though), at around £150. At the time of writing, both a 4TB WD Red and a 4TB IronWolf are about £100 from Amazon UK. Two common choices are the WD (Western Digital) Red series, and Seagate IronWolf series. What disk should you buy? A NAS is intended to be always on and you should get a 3.5' disk that is designed for this. Presuming it is empty, you slide the cover off, fit the 3.5' hard drive, secure it with four screws, then replace the cover and secure that with two screws. You can buy these units either empty, as mine was, or pre-populated with a hard drive. These can then be accessed over the network. The USB ports are for attaching USB storage devices or printers. You will also find a power supply, an Ethernet cable, and a small bag of screws. Disappointing to see the slow USB 2.0 standard used here. What you get is the Diskstation, which is a fairly slim white box with connections for power, 1GB Ethernet port, and 2 USB 2.0 ports. I doubt any of these details will matter to the intended users, except that the more powerful CPU will help performance – though it is still underpowered, if you want to take advantage of the many applications which this device supports. What is the difference? The operating system is now 64-bit, the CPU now a dual-core ARMv8, though still at 800 MHz, and the read/write performance slightly bumped from 100 MB/s to 108 MB/s, according to the documentation. It looks similar to the DS115j which it probably replaces – currently both models are listed on Synology’s site. Synology has released a new budget NAS, the DS119j, describing it as “An ideal first NAS for the home'.

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