Synology DS723+ 16TB 2 Bay Desktop NAS Solution installed with 2 x 8TB HAT3300 Drives

Bought to upgrade from a DS220+, and worth doing. Even without adding any extra memory or SSD, the improvement in performance is noticeable immediately! I could see that some extra RAM would be well worth investing in, as the migration took a very long time to finish off all the background indexing etc, and tied up the existing memory enough to notice a significant slowdown in anything I tried doing manually at the same time. Once all set up though, a perfect little machine and very glad I forked out the extra money for this.

Originally got the DS220+ but found it too slow. So returned it and got this instead, which was the right decision.

Needed another 2 bay NAS as my current one on it's last legs. Great item and upgrade, item came with EU Plug

This NAS drive is fast, especially after adding a 16Gb memory card. I use it for the usual things like file sharing, backup etc., but also to run Home Assistant in a virtual machine, and to prototype wordpress websites. A Home Assistant addon called predbat keeps all my solar panel and battery storage running smoothly.

Item arrived in a partially damaged box and the diskstation had clearly already been opened and used. Not acceptable for an item that is supposed to be secure and reliable data storage. The item has arrived with 500 GB used on the HDD and only 14TB of storage when 32 was ordered. I have connected to the drive and it has all of the previous owners data, including photos, an absolute disgrace.

The delivery was super quick and NAS has lot of features. Software packages are really awesome to play with. Easy set up.

I bought a Synology DiskStation DS723+, with 2 x 1TB NVME read/write cache and 16GB ram (running DSM 7.2.2), it works fast for the most part, but it randomly disconnects. If I try to encode video files directly on the SMB mount with ffmpeg, it just freezes up and a minute later I see a disconnected dialog from Finder, it's just not stable - forget about working off of the NAS basically. You also get various loss of functionality such as the "created at" column in finder is blank, you can't just delete a file, it will show a dialog asking you to confirm, which you can't do with the "enter" key, you get all kinds of strangeness with hidden files, symbolic links, etc. But the worst is inconsistent performance. On my M1 Mini I only get 60mbps throughput to the NAS (awful), on my MacBook M3 Max I get 960mbps (good), but the M1 to M3 also gets 960mbps (good), it's just the Mini -> NAS that's slow, I cannot for the life of me figure out why. The NAS, Mini and MacBook are all on the same Netgear switch using a 1 gigabit connection. I don't understand why this is so hard in 2024 :( - do yourself a favour, just use a thunderbolt SSD.