So, when I read up on what Synology could offer, of course I had to give it a try. In reality, our Seagate NAS became little more than a plastic box with a couple of hard drives in it. In theory, it could run a Plex Server, but it didn’t have the grunt to transcode video, making it rather useless.
However, it had a fairly weak processor and – by comparison to Synology’s DiskStation Manager – it was feature poor. There’s options from a couple of hundred dollars to many thousands, and it really depends what you’re looking for as to what will suit.įor probably the last two years now, I’ve had a Seagate NAS sitting in my cupboard and it’s served well. There’s Western Digital, Seagate, Synology, to name but three, and there are others. In the last few years, consumer-grade NAS has really come into its own, and it’s a somewhat crowded market now. For the longest time, this woeful experience put me off using NAS, and I kept everything on USB drives which, though reliable, could really only be accessed by one computer at a time. I remember a Lacie hard drive in some sort of enclosure with an ethernet port and it was as slow as treacle. The early days of Network Attached Storage (or NAS) were pretty uninspiring. Since being announced last month, I’ve been trying out Synology’s DS218 in my home office.
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