![]() Most of the users were surprised or confused with the power cable, and each came up with a different solution to get the device running. Hard disk temperature hovered around 37 degrees most of the time, which is good for a 7200 rpm hard drive.” Overall, all the users were satisfied with the build quality, with only sygeek pointing out that “my only complaint about the build itself is that the HDD bay cover is too flimsy and easily comes off.” The fan does not make any perceptible sound when run in quiet mode. This is important as NAS devices usually run 24x7. The plastic housing makes it lightweight, and portable.” The fact that the device ran quiet was noted by Cool Buddy as well, “the device has a fan at the back to keep the drives cool. It occupies a very small footprint and makes very little noise when the fan is set to quiet mode. Overall, I’m very impressed with the build quality. These are very sturdy and have rubber covering to prevent vibrations. The drives are attached by screwless plastic adapters. Nerevarine noted that “the drive bays are capable of hot swap, meaning you can plug in hard drives or remove while it is powered on. The reviewers noted that the device was surprisingly light, with Vyom writing “Right out of the box, the NAS was so lightweight you could mistake it for an empty plastic box.” The NAS does not come with its own storage, which a few users found surprising, but they were provided with 1TB Seagate Barracuda drives for the review. There are two drive bays on the NAS, for mounting hard drives. I belive it’s a very thoughtful feature of the NAS, which could prove extremely useful, in cases where you don’t want a PC/laptop to copy the files from the USB. It will do a long beep once the copy process is finished at which point I could remove the USB drive from NAS. The NAS automatically copies the entire contents of the USB drive on NAS. Vyom explains, “Now I just need to pop in a USB drive in the front USB 3.0 port of the NAS, and when it beeps, just need to press the physical “Copy” button on the front of the NAS. This feature allows user to plug in a USB drive into the NAS, and use the button to copy all the contents with a single press. The power cable plugs into the back, and there is a power button on the front along with a dedicated copy button. In terms of connectivity options, there are two LAN ports in the back, and a USB 3.0 interface each in the front and back, and a pair of RJ-45 LAN cables provided in the box. The Synology DS220+ is powered by an 2.0 Ghz Intel Celeron J4025 CPU, and comes with 2GB DDR4 RAM, along with an extra RAM slot that officially supports up to 4GB of RAM, but users have managed to make the device work with more memory. Nerevarine writes, “The device retails for around Rs 32,000 in amazon.in offering quite a unique combination of software and hardware in the entry level home NAS solution.” Specs and build Vyom explains the NAS as “Your personal and private cloud! Your own server!” All these users are value conscious, and found that the software solutions provided by Synology were incredibly useful and convenient and in many cases superior to free and open source alternatives. Users also found that they could replace expensive cloud storage solutions with local storage. ![]() If you have a use case, there’s likely a solution!”. As sygeek points out, “If you have a niche use-case there’s probably a way to make it work with a NAS - Create a surveillance setup, automatically download and stream the latest episode of your favorite show, create an encrypted folder for your important files, or run any other self-hosted applications. ![]() Nerevarine, sygeek, Vyom, Cool Buddy and Aestivial all found different reasons to use the device to stream multimedia content, store personal data, access their files over the internet, and augment or even replace their cloud storage. Synology’s DS220+ is dedicated hardware plugged into the router, giving local storage for all devices in a household. These are the power users, people who could easily build their own low cost servers and install the free software necessary to make their own storage setups. Synology gave away network attached storage (NAS) units to the Digit Forum members in a contest. ![]()
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