20 May, 2016

Synology DS216j + DSM6.0 - first impression


Finally! I bought myself a NAS.
How, did I end up with it since I consider 2-bay NAS as pointless exercise? (I thing that RAID0 is just looking for trouble and RAID1 is too inefficient with respect to provided redundant storage)

So, I was looking for something that is at least 4-bay version (so I can use RAID5 on it)... and they are, of course, considerably more expensive. Looking around, how things change with time, I got the impression that 4 years later I will not want to keep the current hardware since it will be completely outdated. So it will be waste of money to use proper NAS for simple storage + some extra features (I do not mind to have some "Dropbox-like" feature, media center etc.. ) needs[1].

Then again, after long revision of the budget and my needs, I decided to go with 1-bay solution!?! 

Unfortunately, the reviews on the Net for the available 1-bay hardware I found, ware just too disappointing to bare with. And this is how I ended up with using the 2-bay DS216j with single disk.