There are plenty of reasons to have a NAS at home, be it at the center of a home media server, a cord-cutting setup or just good old fashioned data backup. When you're shopping for a NAS one of the leading names you'll want to check out is Synology, and one of our favorite units, the DS218+, has a nice little discount for [Black Friday].
Amazon has a wide selection of storage products on sale for Black Friday featuring Seagate, PNY, Kingston, and more with prices from $17. If you need a flash drive or hard drive, a microSD card, or even a NAS system, this sale is for you.
Adding a network-attached storage (NAS) server to your home is a great way of creating a centralized storage hub for all your media, personal files, and even OS backups. We've rounded up some killer NAS options for homeowners to choose from.
Planning to pick up a Synology NAS? Good choice. Here are some hard drives you should consider if it doesn't come with any pre-installed.
Synology does not have a short supply of NAS models, and the company just rolled out a new one for personal file storage, called the DS419slim. It's small, lightweight and takes SSDs.
Synology has a wide range of NAS models available for purchase, but out of the DS218+ and DS718+, which is best for you?
Synology DS218+ comes rocking 2GB of RAM as standard. It's possible to expand this by following a few steps.
Plex is a popular service that allows you to set up your very own home server and stream content anywhere inside and outside the home. Here's how to do it on your Synology NAS.
These are the drives you'll want to install inside the Synology DS419slim.
The RT2600ac and MR2200ac offer robust connectivity on their own, and when connected as a mesh system they do a fantastic job extending the range of your existing home network.
Synology makes great NAS for Plex 4K playback, but is the DS419slim one of them?
You should buy your Synology DS419slim from Amazon. Here's why.
Just bought your Synology DS1019+ NAS? Here's how to get it all set up and ready to go.
Hard drives will eventually fail, but luckily Synology makes it a simple process to replace a damaged drive with a new one. You won't lose any data should you follow this walkthrough, and it'll even work if you need more space by replacing drives with larger capacity units.
Here's how you can connect your DS1019+ NAS to your home network without using cables.
When looking at Synology NAS servers for your home, should you go with the DS218+ or the more expensive DS1019+?
The DS1019+ and DS918+ are similar NAS servers, so which should you choose as your next purchase?
After buying the Synology DS1019+, you'll need to fill the NAS with some hard drives. Here are the best NAS drives you can buy.
The Synology DS1019+ is an excellent five-bay NAS, but you may struggle to stream 4K content that requires transcoding to various devices.
TerraMaster made the F2-221 NAS to compete against Synology's excellent DS218+, and while both servers are similar in more ways than not, which is better for you?