DiskStation DS218+

" have an old, but fully functional Synology DS218+."

Synology never had competitive hardware. What makes them good is their software. I have a Uggreen NAS and frankly I regret buying it. The software is severely undercooked, especially when I bought it. It’s missing so many things you get with Synology’s DSM. I still have my old DS218+ running as a ba

Well said. You can't compare those solutions. Why does someone drive a truck, others prefer small hatchbacks? And don't even mention car brands. I've made the switch from Synology->unRaid->Truenas I have my reasons for preferring Truenas, but what I miss most from Synology is the set and forget ment

Two things. First, they restricted HDD to "Synology approved" drives (mainly their own brand, more expensive) for the DS225+ which was their newest 2-bay NAS. Due to backlash, they came back on this decision. Then there was the transcoding issue, they disabled it on their newest NAS because you need

Io attualmente ho un Nas Synology 218+ che uso come archiviazione di rete e per qualche container docker, nonostante la vecchiaia funziona senza perdere un colpo. Con la nuova politica sugli hdd non so se consiglierei nuovamente Synology, ma a livello di funzionalità e semplicità di impostazione è v

This is what I did when upgrading from DS214play to DS218+. Worked without problems. You can probably also find documentation by synology about this.

I’m running Emby on my Synology DS218+ with two 14TB hard drives (28TB total). The DS218+ handles everything I throw at it thanks to its solid Intel Celeron CPU and 6GB RAM. Most of my family and friends stream from Android TV devices and Windows PCs, with the occasional phone or tablet. What I real

How does the software compare to Synology? I recently setup a UGreen NAS for a family member and while it doesn't have every feature Synology does (yet) it is slowly but surely eating Synology's lunch. If I was to upgrade now from my aging (but still very much working) DS218+, I'd probably go with t

I set this up a while ago and it’s working great. I tested it on my system with a UDM SE, usw flex 2.5, unifi WiFi 7 XG, and a synology DS218+. I got 51 minutes of run time. The synology quiesced its functionality but stayed on till the very end. In my testing, I found that the synology stays on, bu

With Synology via container manager - you'll also need portainer + watch tower to update the images automatically. There will be updates that you will need to click via the homebridge UI but there are also updates to the image as well. I have it running for 4 years on my Synology DS218+ with no hicc