DS124 Personal Backup & File Hub - Protect Photos, Secure Home Surveillance (1-Bay Diskless NAS)

I bought this to replace an old western digital WD mycloud. I can’t believe all the features it has. I would say if you’re new at Naz boxes do some research and learn a little bit beforehand as it can be a little overwhelming with all the options you have with this NAS box. The value for the money is incredible. I would recommend and will definitely buy again. I love that it has features that I can back up my phone as well as all my files on my network. You can also make it a media hub to watch your movies and play your music over your network again so many features I couldn’t list them all well worth the money.

I've been using Synology NAS products for years. They are solid, undramatic and reliable. Synology firmware and accessory packages are also well designed and easy to use.

Let me start off by saying I am a networking expert. I have included an image of my home layout to show what I’m talking about. A little back story. The other day I was messing around with my Western Digital MyCloudEx2Ultra (now know as NAS1), I was trying to change from Raid to JBOD. I did this with breaking the cardinal rule of not having a bakup. All of a sudden it looked like it was going to clear all data from the NAS1, I panicked and immediately pulled the plug! Many of you would know my instant panic! I was hyperventilating, my heart was racing, and all I was thinking was that I lost 4TB of data! So after plugging in the NAS1, I found that all was well. That got me thinking I need to cover my butt. I bought a 4TB 3.5” drive and tried to use it in a USB solution. No joy. Then I went online to Amazon and was shopping for a new NAS for bakup. I settled on the Synology 1 bay diskless version as I had a drive already. The drive arrived in just 2 days. After some consternation, I was able to open the cover of NAS2, and inserting the drive and securing it with the supplied screws. My biggest complaint with this enclosure is that I was unable to secure the cover completely. It just would not fit back together as it uses plastic pins to fit back in the holes and it just would not go back in. So fine. After hooking up the Ethernet cable and power, I turned it on. Compared to the NAS1 web interface, NAS2 interface was amazing. Very fresh look, and after a bit to figure out making a couple of shared folders, was up and running in about 30 minutes. The drive wanted to update firmware which took about 15 minutes. After about 2 days I have a complete backup of my data. I have also disconnected the NAS1, put it away for safe keeping in a fire safe box. I now use the Synology (NAS2) as my primary network disk device. The reason I went with the NAS2, is it has a power button! And also, I can shut it down for the night with the web interface. I could not do that with the WD NAS. I am completely satisfied with my purchase, and highly recommend this device for home storage. Next maybe explore an option for a media device for all the movies and TV shows I have. One thing that is amazing, ALL my Android devices not talk to the NAS2, I could not do that with the NAS1. This makes it possible to access my files and videos wherever I am in the world. Quite cool eh? I give it 4.5 stars because of the cover reinstall problem, Synology, please redesign the cover.

Connected to Router so all devices on network can seamlessly access the drive. Software allows all camera photos to instantly backup on the drive. Easy to organize docs and photos. A great time saver.

Last week I bought a Synology DS124 because my DS220+ died in service. The DS220+ had a good power supply but no lights went on when attempting to start the unit. I removed my 10Tb drive from the DS 220+ and installed it into the DS124. The brief user's guide that came with the DS124 was helpful but the complete user's guide (pdf download from Synology) was much better. As part of the startup process the 10Tb hard drive was reformatted and the "Synology Assistant" made the startup process easy. Suggestion: read the brief manual and the bigger pdf manual before starting up the DS124 for the first time. You may also want to look up a video on the web about installation and setup of the DS124. Do not try to hurry through this process -- take your time and get it right! I am using the NAS to backup two computers that reside on my local area network. My backup software is the "Windows 7 Backup & Restore" that comes with Windows 10 and Windows 11. Suggestion: after you do your first backup take the "big jump" and try to restore all the files (or at least some of the files) that you backed up. That will demonstrate that you were actually able to restore files that you have backed up. Finally, the backup of files is not rapid. Expect a 1 TB drive to take about 1 and 1/2 hours and a larger backups will take longer. If you want very fast backups you need to choose a much more expensive NAS and and more sophisticated (and expensive) backup software.

This is misleading crap. It has no storage included. It does nothing out of the box. You have to buy storage disks separately. It is not easy to set up, does not function smoothly, and there is no customer support or intuitive interface. Maybe it’s ok for IT professionals, but if you’re just looking for a device for your home, don’t even think about think company.

Upgraded from DS120. Just put the hdd on and everything kept working. Now i have face recognition in Synology Photos, very good.

I upgraded from a DS116 released in 2016. Gotta admit it doesn't feel that much faster for a low-demand NAS. But I figure ten years is about due time for a direct replacement and the DS124 fit the bill. Nothing fancy for the price, should work fine, should do everything before without issue. Looks the same, feels the same, that was the goal. I didn't realize Migration Assistant is not available for anything in the budget/lower-end range. So I just plugged in the new DS124 with new drive, ran initial setup, and manually dragged things over the network. Whatever, data is there now. I don't see how that could be so resource-intensive to just initiate a point-to-point transfer but that's not my call. This is a single bay but if you need redundancy, you can install one of the cloud services and back up what you need. I've used S3 and Backblaze B2 over the years, both fairly reasonably priced for non-TB amounts of data automatically uploaded. I run Plex only as a media server, no transcoding. The old one played say 50GB files fine over the network ok and the new one hasn't been a problem. To serve files and act as a basic simple NAS, the single bays are fine. My acquired media files are not worth backing up, assess your own needs and situation.

Great product... very intuitive to learn and robust and has so many programable options and multiple integrations

初めてのNASとして自宅に余っていたHDDをNASとして使おうと購入しましたが、起動せず 動作確認しているIronWolfを購入して問題なく起動 自宅内でのデータ転送も100MB/s程度の転送速度がでていて満足しています 初期設定も難しいことはなく、不安なら解説しているサイトもありますので初心者でも問題なく設定することができると思います。 VPNサーバー機能が追加できて自宅のV6プラス環境下でも問題なく動いたので便利でした まれにVPN切断後にすぐに接続できないことがありますが満足して利用しています RAID機能が不要ならばおすすめできるNASだと思います

Hardware installation is very simple. Installation also very easy.

業務でnasを使用しているが、 こちらは家庭用に導入。 初期設定も非常に簡単、 ネットに情報も多彩に載っており、 非常に優秀

デスクトップPC、ノートPC、スマホ、タブレットなど自分一人で複数の端末からファイルを利用・保存するために購入。 特別動作が早いわけでもなく、HDDも一個しか積めないが、この程度の用途ならこれで必要十分です。