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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.
Basically fulfills all its core goals pretty well, can be had for free for own deployments or can be a paid solution for supported enterprise/business customers.
Bad hardware compatibility and I need 40 characters.
Extremely feature rich out of the box, it's extremely stable, builds on top of the very stable ZFS & FreeBSD foundations.
There are some hypervisor functionally currently missing that might get added in the future.
It's provided a secure and stable environment to take care of the data needs of my clients and it's easy enough to use.
The lack of a home usage design, and the complexity and not so intuitive arrangement of menu functions.
Love how easy it is to setup, it's scalability, and the fact that you can build any system yourself, doesn't have to be a branded Server, can just be a white box with some CPU/RAM/Disks if you want.
Some weird quirks in the web UI, for example the terminal doesn't use the whole screen and can't be resized. Nothing deal breaking as I mostly just SSH into the server.
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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