For one, you don’t need heaps of power for a NAS, and secondly, it helps to keep both costs and power consumption down. Your flagship smartphone is more powerful than this thing, so expect to grow a few grey hairs before this NAS completes the decoding or loading tasks you throw at it.īut the lack of power does have its benefits. The single-bay NAS features a dual-core Marvell Armada 3700 CPU that just about hits 800MHz. It’s probably to be expected considering the specs.
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DSM takes about 20 minutes to install on the Synology DiskStation DS119j’s drive.Įven though the WD Red Pro isn’t a slouch at all, this NAS is laggy. The webpage will then find the NAS on your network, and automatically install DSM. You simply plug the DiskStation DS119j into the wall, then into your network, switch it on and navigate to in your browser. With DSM, the OS cuts out the fuss entirely.
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I’ve built NASes from old PC parts using FreeNAS and NAS4Free before, but using these require a lot of step-by-step learning. DSM is a chonk of an OS, so try to get a drive that’s at least 4TB. (That said, I did invest in a slightly older 4TB WD Red Pro, largely thanks to a 50% special.)īear in mind too, that once DSM is installed, you’ll have about 300GB unavailable for use.
There’s no need to get a storage drive that costs double the NAS itself. The low cost of this NAS also encourages users to set it up as a budget option. And for those who claim these drives aren’t meant to be used in a NAS, you’d be forced to back up your data anyway if you’re using a single-bay NAS. Something like a Seagate Barracuda or WD Blue should be just fine. For this single drive NAS, I’d actually recommend buying a drive that’s cheap rather than a drive that’s meant to be used in a NAS. This is all pretty easy to do, and the drive itself is secured using five screws. You’ll then be tasked with sliding the hard drive into the SATA connectors, and the drive will be mounted vertically on said tray. Slide these two halves apart and exposed are the SATA connectors mounted at the end of a sled-like tray. Two screws hold the white plastic body together. You can have this for around R2000, and that seems a tasty prospect for a device that runs Synology’s DSM NAS OS, that’s extremely adaptable.Īs for setting up the NAS, it’s a simple process. It does have RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet port, two USB-A ports for plugging in an external hard drive or flash drive, and indicator lights that flash on network traffic, power, and hard drive activity.Īt the bottom, the NAS has large rubber feet which ensures that its rather light frame (even with an internal drive plugged in) stays put. Why get a single-bay NAS when you can just buy an external hard drive?
In fact, it’s about as bare bones as a NAS can get. Our review subject, the Synology DiskStation DS119j, needs a bit of an introduction.Īs the company’s bottom dollar network attached storage solution, the DiskStation DS119j doesn’t offer stellar specs or a bevy of options to the user. And in Synology’s case, literally anywhere thanks to its QuickConnect infrastructure.īut this factor doesn’t mean isn’t a clear win for the NAS, as I’ll come to explain as this review develops.įirst thing’s first though. With a NAS, you’re essentially bundling storage into a lightweight PC that you can access from anywhere.
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