DS119j

This definitely is not a fast device. When I first got this, it was going quite slow. REALLY slow. It was installing the DSM and all these default services that I never use. The Synology music service, video service, Drive service, etc. And it took hours before it was fully usable. I'd tell it to install Cloud Sync and it took a while before it did install. And most of that could be because I didn't have a NAS drive, I bet, but even my older 118j didn't seem this slow.But it works just like my 118j otherwise except now they seem to have Plex for it. Cloud Sync is excellent and I use that for synchronizing and keeping an offline copy of my Dropbox for my local PCs.But you can't escape the fact that the unit runs slow. I uninstalled all the Synology services I don't use (Music, Moments, Drive sync, Video) and it appears to be better.So if you want a blazing fast NAS, this really isn't it. But it's real easy to set up and easy to install too just like the 118j. Go to find.synology.com to get it set up through a web interface. And make sure to run the security advisors in the unit if you're not familiar with it. My 118j was once attempted with some people hacking in... they're the "good guys" as they say as they email you telling you that they saw it publicly on line if you turn on that option.... but they still couldn't get into it. So I checked the security advisors and it made changes that it let me approve. Eventually I took that off since I'm just synchronizing with Dropbox and those files are accessible via the web anyway.So, all in all, it's a good unit.... just a bit slow to setup and it will feel slow when you use it. But if you're using it just to store files and have Cloud Sync to synchronize to OneDrive, Dropbox, etc., then it's probably just fine. This cost me $72 for the unit as a Warehouse item, so I got about what I expected for my money..After 1.5 days, it seems to be moving much better now. Still a little sluggish but good enough. Also, one good feature is to turn on Google Print and hook up a printer to it via USB. I have an old Samsung laser printer which doesn't work with the network or wifi anymore, but USB is always fine. This still lets me have a remote printer, in a way, so that I can print from anything using Google Print service. A very nice feature.

Is a very good product, It could be faster the OS, but nice setting for the price.

The device was fairly easy to set up but contained too many steps. It is not necessarily "plug and play". So far I've had no problems with the actual device.

I already had a 2 bay Synology NAS. I added this to separate a surveillance function from general household backups. Doing both on one mirrored NAS (network attached storage) tends to put your backup data at risk due to the constant disk writes from the surveillance application. Built in app, Surveillance Station, works well. It comes with two licenses for this app standard, and you can purchase more as needed. Cheaper and superior to low-end security DVR's.

As a buyer and user of numerous Synology NAS products over the last decade, I can say without hesitation that they should stop making single drive NAS units and in particular, this one.During my testing, I first used a known working 500GB conventional hard drive and the NAS stuttered and exhibited extremely poor throughput (48mbps... half duplex?) so having never experienced such poor performance in a Synology product, I swapped in a known working 250gb SSD and got the same result.Normally, with such poor throughput, changing the ethernet settings (to be sure it was gigabit) and/or the ethernet cable and/or switch should improve the situation so I disconnected my DS718 and put this unit in it's place and once again, I got the same result.In all fairness, it might have been just this one but for all practical purposes, a one drive NAS sort of defeats the purpose of having a NAS since a drive failure would result in disaster in every case despite having a USB backup because of the inconvenience of having to reconfigure the NAS with a new drive. That notwithstanding, this particular product has far worse performance than my DS213 which is still running flawlessly with a 70mbps transfer rate after 6 years in continuous use.Not recommended.Thanks for reading!

I use my NAS as a streaming box for Kodi. Out of the box, Synology NAS are the best IMO. This is a great entry level NAS that I chose to put in my mom's home, for her foreign language programming.

The backup software that comes with this is so crude I can hardly believe this company is still updating it. Once you set up a backup using Drive and upload all of the files you want backed up, you can't change, or in my case, add a new folder to the backup task without deleting ALL of your backed up files and the task and start over.For example, if you set up a backup of your Documents folder and run the backup (which will take DAYS to finish) then you realize you also wanted to backup your Programs folder, you can't just add that folder to the task, you have to delete everything and start over and add the Programs folder to the initial setup.You can use third-party backup software for this but why am I spending this much money on a NAS then having to spend even more money on a backup program? Win 10 backup fails to see the NAS so I can't use that either.Another thing I can't understand is how the formatting and OS take up ***400 GB*** on the drive... yes, the format and crude OS take 400 GB from your backup space - this is unbelievable. Couple that with there is no obvious way to empty the trash and basically on my 4TB drive I have less than 3TB of usable space, and if I delete more of the backups to add new folders to the task I lose that space as well.Once said and done on a 4TB drive I will have about 2TB of backup space, so if you insist on using this horrible product then I would strongly suggest you get a 10TB drive so you have room for all of the mistakes and unemptiable trash you are going to run into.The third major problem I have run into is I have the NAS connected to my router/modem via ethernet and my main work computer also connected via ethernet, but we have a few other laptops connected via WiFi. The hard-wired computers are able to mount the backup folders as network drives but the ones connected via WiFi are not - they just simply fail to see the NAS and are therefore unable to be backed up using this device.I should have listened to the bad reviews on this and just went with a WD My Cloud Backup drive.In my opinion you could probably get this thing to work if you are a very advanced networking person but for the average user like me it is 80% useless as an everyday backup source.

Synology is a Swiss Army knife NaS. I have about 20! of them running. They have so many features and options... went to a partner day recently and their forward focus on what it does is great. Very innovative.

I bought this NAS to replace a My Cloud 4TB NAS that became damaged after falling on the floor. I didn't repurchase the same one because it was about $100 more than I paid for it several years ago so I thought I would give this one a try.Using the application software for this drive is very slow on all fronts: slow to login into it, slow navigation, and slow to process any changes. Even when you access the files on the drive via UNC path (\\server name from Run) it takes about 20 to 30 seconds for it to display files.I have other internal and external hard drives that I use to primarily access my files but I got this one as an extra backup to access my files remotely or in case my main system goes down.I’d be really frustrated if I had to use this drive to primarily access my files. I’ll keep using this one for now until I’m ready to replace it in couple of months or so.Giving it two stars instead of one because at least it “works” but it’s so extremely slow for me that it’s barely usable in a practical sense.

It might be a little show when running multiple programs but it is the lowest model I would recomend going to the 2 bay one more ram and processor speed. Overall great product.

This works great for backups over the network. Not blazingly fast, and it doesn't have a large set of add-on features but if you want a simple one-disk NAS this one is perfect. WAY better than the WD MyCloud I tried first.

I understand the idea about this device being an entry-level budget multi-purpose NAS. However the specs are so low it actually makes the device useless for anything except basic backup. All the extra add-ons like email server, chat server, etc. They will all be rendered useless with such low hardware specs.End result I returned mine and ended up paying little more and get the DS118.

I very rarely write poor reviews but I felt I must with this. First of all it simply dies after 90 days. dead. Luckily my workhorse 10 GB NAS HD was not affected. When it worked it was ok for the basic NAS. Transferring data however was extremely slow on a very high speed network. Media Streaming..totally useless. You get the ideaSo I spent at least an hour on hold to speak with a rep for warranty. To my surprise that replaced it. However they did not supply a return shipping label stating that this unit doesn't qualify. Huh? And their websiite is consistently unresponsive... Consistently. Seriously.. Even disconnecting a few times. So we'll see how this replacement holds up. Save yourself a lot trouble Stay away!

While the price is attractive, that's the only thing attractive about this unit. It is SLOW, SLOW!!! A turtle is faster by 100%. Everything this NAS does, it does it so slow, it's excruciating just like a dial-up modem. I used a 4TB WD Red NAS drive and a simple import took 3 days of around the clock use. Streaming from this unit is at kbps speed. My Internet at home is 500/500, its faaast. This unit's processor is too slow to handle the simplest of tasks.Synology does not know the meaning of "customer service" when I tried to return this and had to file an A-Z Amazon Claim instead. AVOID SYNOLOGY PRODUCTS if you value your sanity.

Solid and reliable, NAS, we use to back up very important databases.Easy to manage , great interface.