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Trusted by some of the best and brightest minds in the IT industry with more than 7 million installations, Synology has proven over and over to be a stand alone solution for home and business users.
An industry agnostic, global platform developed for medium-large scale organizations which provides data migration, protection and backup, system connectivity and file share (and sync) capabilities.
Price is good, good hardware from Synology, a lot of features or addons-apps to install, good security, a lot of updates, monitoring and logging is great, backup to the cloud is supported.
I have a bare model with a weak cpu, and so every now and then I experience latency issues, or slow ramp up times.
The interface is a lot more cleaner than I expected and having the peace of mind knowing that everything is backed up with the option to expand at a moments notice is great.
Occassional lag over the internet (con of any remote interface).
DiskStation greatly helps with backup and file access. For those who like to try, DMS apps offer useful and fun ways to take full advantage of your network-attached storage devices.
A few things that require set up can sometimes be a bit confusing.
Backing up multiple Macs, backing itself up to another Synology drive or S3 and USB is seamless. Very easy to use and set up.
To set up remote login was a bit tricky specially setting up a DDNS.
If you are working with large data sets and you need to transfer it, this is one of the best solutions you can have. It is reliable, secure and easy to use.
It has limited time to download a file. If you miss the date, file will disappear.
An easy and interactive user interface of this product is amazing enough to make all my work a bit easier. Multiple files can also be dragged through this splendid product.
Slow access is one of the worst features of this program. I use this program only in case i have to use it.
I use it to share important files with suppliers that I work with. Creating folders for sharing is helpful for tracking history.
It's frustrating at every turn. The only reason I use it is because I have a client that uses it, and this is the only way they send me files.
Upload and Download system is very easy to use and interface is user friendly. Therefore, it is my favorite file sharing software an the work.
The upgrades appear to only address bugs or OS upgrades. When there is an upgrade, it is totally disruptive - you have to close all other applications and reboot your system.
Thomas: Hi, I'm Thomas. I work as a senior project manager, and my company is in the networking industry. I would rate the Synology Workstation, the Synology product that I have, a five. I use this station as a NAS, network-attached storage. So, I store all my files. I also use it as a VPN server and also as a web server in my environment. And I use, also, all of the mobile apps, and also use it on my desktop laptops and use it for backing up all of my Windows machines. What I like most about this station is that the software is very user-friendly. It's quite easy to be able to configure applications, and it has a large suite of applications that are both Synology zone applications. Plus, they allow you to use open-source applications as well, and it makes it quite easy for you to be able to configure any additional needs that you have for your environment. Probably the biggest thing that I dislike about the Synology DiskStation is that although the software is really fantastic, the hardware compared to alternatives is a little bit underpowered and uses slightly older technology, but that's probably the biggest downside.
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