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Does the $200 model still support all of that? I know I need to get my ass in gear and fix my storage and backups. I’d also like to start replacing my Wyzecams

Does the $200 model still support all of that? I know I need to get my ass in gear and fix my storage and backups. I’d also like to start replacing my Wyzecams with and IP NVR. But I’ve been in a frugal mood lately, I find it hard to spend over $500 on an item like this.

rcarmo 3y ago
They all run the same software.
- dannyw 3y ago
  However, the cheaper models don't necessarily have all the features. I believe the $249 DS223 does indeed support all of the features I mentioned above.
  - YurgenJurgensen 3y ago
    But does it do them all at once with its available RAM? I got bit by this by buying a low-end QNAP NAS that only had a gig of RAM and found that it was non-upgradable and severely limited the number of services it could run at once.
    - dannyw 3y ago
      I run a bittorrent client, a light web service docker, Video Station, Photoprism, and a VPN on a 2GB Synology fine; along with HyperBackup, data scrubbing, snapshots, etc. The official Synology services are pretty RAM-optimised. It does get pretty tight, I probably wouldn't want to be adding any more services, but it's fine for my use cases.
inconceivable 3y ago
you can run synology software on generic hardware https://xpenology.org/#What_is_Xpenology https://xpenology.org/#What_is_Xpenology having said that i bought the $200 model (220j) with a steep discount with points on amazon and it works fine but is a little slower than the others. i just use it for rsync (which never-deletes by default) and as an SMB server. note the 220j unit doesn't do btrfs. the nas software seems pretty good but i don't use much of it. it takes some configuring to setup proper user home directories to rsync with but it only took me a few minutes of googling to figure it out. also their macos backup agent software kind of sucks but if you're using it for rsync or as a NAS volume it seems to work great. i don't use any of synology cloud or public cloud features.

rcarmo 3y ago

They all run the same software.

dannyw 3y ago
However, the cheaper models don't necessarily have all the features. I believe the $249 DS223 does indeed support all of the features I mentioned above.
- YurgenJurgensen 3y ago
  But does it do them all at once with its available RAM? I got bit by this by buying a low-end QNAP NAS that only had a gig of RAM and found that it was non-upgradable and severely limited the number of services it could run at once.
  - dannyw 3y ago
    I run a bittorrent client, a light web service docker, Video Station, Photoprism, and a VPN on a 2GB Synology fine; along with HyperBackup, data scrubbing, snapshots, etc. The official Synology services are pretty RAM-optimised. It does get pretty tight, I probably wouldn't want to be adding any more services, but it's fine for my use cases.

inconceivable 3y ago

you can run synology software on generic hardware https://xpenology.org/#What_is_Xpenology https://xpenology.org/#What_is_Xpenology having said that i bought the $200 model (220j) with a steep discount with points on amazon and it works fine but is a little slower than the others. i just use it for rsync (which never-deletes by default) and as an SMB server. note the 220j unit doesn't do btrfs. the nas software seems pretty good but i don't use much of it. it takes some configuring to setup proper user home directories to rsync with but it only took me a few minutes of googling to figure it out. also their macos backup agent software kind of sucks but if you're using it for rsync or as a NAS volume it seems to work great. i don't use any of synology cloud or public cloud features.