Re-attach the side strips to secure the hard drive in place, and then slide the whole lot back into the Synology. Then, slide a hard drive snugly into the bay. Take one of the bays out and remove the side strips. Installing the drives into the Synology is very easy. For my setup, I went with 2 x 3 TB WD-Red NAS drives from Western Digital, costing about $200 in total. To get started quickly, I’d suggest getting two equal-sized drives from the same manufacturer.
Given the ever-falling price of HDDs however, it’s pretty cheap to pickup several terabytes worth of space. Storage capacity depends on what you plan to use the NAS for, of course. You can get away with any consumer OEM 3.5 inch drive really, it’s personal preference.Īnything from Amazon will suffice for home consumer needs. This means the first task to getting the NAS configured is to decide what kind of hard drives you want: speed, capacity, reliability, manufacturer and such. When you buy a Synology, you typically buy it standalone with empty drive bays.
For any of this stuff, though, you need hard drives for storage. At its smartest, it’s an always-on network computer that handles a wide array of data, media and backup tasks.
Hence, my review starts with an explanation of the setup steps involved …Īt its dumbest, the Synology NAS is a USB hard drive. The Apple TV 4 was another big factor: with an app, I can now view all the TV shows and movies, stored on my NAS, from my TV.īefore I owned a NAS, I was worried about two things: whether the features would be useful and how much hassle would be necessary to get everything up and running. With Apple no longer shipping optical drives in most of their products, I think now is a great time to convert your home movie collection of DVDs and Blu-rays to digital files, which a NAS is great for storing. Although Synology products include a variety of features, I will be focusing on two primary functions that I consider most essential and most useful to people today: Mac backup and home media management (TV shows and movies). I’ve recently been testing the brand new Synology DS-216+ NAS ($299), a network-attached-storage product meant for consumers.
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