Since this is a third party (non-apple) product, it seems entirely appropriate to review this in a less in-depth fashion than you might find on synologyinsider.com
Looks like the domain is available.
Instead of complaining, perhaps you could get to work and produce the kind of content you feel is missing?
Why are you sticking up for this piss poor excuse for a review? If they want to review an item do a proper review not a gorified summary. If I was running a website and doing reviews then, Yes I would write a better review but that's not my job. It is however the job of the staff at Ai to perform this function. Unless they are going to do a proper review they really shouldn't bother. I still think this is a free advert to get a synology box for free though. LOL.
You are right, your job is not writing for AI.
Your job (as of the time you commented) is being a commenter on a tech blog.
I'd say you have failed in your task, modest as it was, to write constructive commentary.
I've had a DS212j since 2012 and gotten great use out of it. I paid $249 for it, which is a single drive. $169 for dual drive is incredible bargain.
I have extensive experience with Synology and DSM in commercial and home environments. for an intranet control system it's awesome.
here's clarifying various things:
rums much faster with SSDs if you can cost-justify and storage-justify that. you cannot attach an external USB drive and make it part of the RAID array, but you can back up to it you can set up a VPN server that allows you secure remote access to your LAN and files you can set up two DS216j units at two different locations and have directories on one cloned to the other you can sync a cloud based server (google drive, etc) with a DSM directory so that your cloud content is constantly backed up locally, and vice-versa you can host websites and web applications (LAMP) on it and it works pretty well for this for small workgroups you should not set it up to apply updates automatically - DSM OS software is notorious for crashing stuff on upgrades - check the forums before upgrading don't expose it to the open internet - place it behind a firewall and use the VPN feature to access things securely you can host drupal, WordPress and other CMS and wikis on it for intranet use it's a very nice time capsule backup device synology support is not so great, but their forums are excellent there is a raging mod scene running the DSM os on unauthorized hardware if you're comfortable with SSH / telnet you can customize settings that are not available in the DSM UI but software updates will usually reverse those edits
most general Mac and iStuff users would find this very useful. some of you pro-level folks might be underwhelmed, but for a general file and media server it's pretty nice. I have 3TB of movies and music on mine.
Been using Synology cases for some time. Not a news and author starts following smallnetbuilder.com website to write articles like that.
216j is not a revolution - it is evolution of few previous models that were outperforming Time Capsule consistently.
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You are right, your job is not writing for AI.
Your job (as of the time you commented) is being a commenter on a tech blog.
I'd say you have failed in your task, modest as it was, to write constructive commentary.
I have extensive experience with Synology and DSM in commercial and home environments. for an intranet control system it's awesome.
here's clarifying various things:
rums much faster with SSDs if you can cost-justify and storage-justify that.
you cannot attach an external USB drive and make it part of the RAID array, but you can back up to it
you can set up a VPN server that allows you secure remote access to your LAN and files
you can set up two DS216j units at two different locations and have directories on one cloned to the other
you can sync a cloud based server (google drive, etc) with a DSM directory so that your cloud content is constantly backed up locally, and vice-versa
you can host websites and web applications (LAMP) on it and it works pretty well for this for small workgroups
you should not set it up to apply updates automatically - DSM OS software is notorious for crashing stuff on upgrades - check the forums before upgrading
don't expose it to the open internet - place it behind a firewall and use the VPN feature to access things securely
you can host drupal, WordPress and other CMS and wikis on it for intranet use
it's a very nice time capsule backup device
synology support is not so great, but their forums are excellent
there is a raging mod scene running the DSM os on unauthorized hardware
if you're comfortable with SSH / telnet you can customize settings that are not available in the DSM UI but software updates will usually reverse those edits
most general Mac and iStuff users would find this very useful. some of you pro-level folks might be underwhelmed, but for a general file and media server it's pretty nice. I have 3TB of movies and music on mine.
http://www.storagereview.com/consumer/soho_nas