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

Outstanding and simple set up! Works great for streaming media!

I wok as an IT Professional and have used Synology in many production environments. I have nothing but love for their products. I purchased the NAS to convert an 8 TB external drive into a NAS for my home network. It has been running amazingly. It was easy to set up and get going. It has more features than I need, but I will be implementing some in the near future. The one and only thing that disappointed me and has knocked a star off of what otherwise would be a perfect rating: The drive had preexisting data on it. I installed the drive in the NAS and went to do initial setup. It warned me that all the data on the drive would be wiped. Alright, thanks for the warning! I took the drive out of the NAS and placed it back in the external enclosure it was in... and to my horror the drive had already been formatted! It warned me AFTER it had already erased all the data from the drive! Luckily I have backups of most of my data, but I still lost about 500 GB of (thankfully) replicable data. SO be warned, if you are using a drive with data on it, it will be wiped the moment the NAS initializes for the first time.

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.

Works as expected and easy to use.

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.

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.

My DS120 failed. I assumed the HDD was fine. I replaced it with the DS124 with the same HDD. The migration to the new NAS was simple, quick and easy. All settings were copied to the new system. It was more difficult for me to change a few settings in the router.

半年ほど利用。監視カメラの録画機＆ファイルサーバーとして24h稼働中。v6プラス回線でも外部からもアクセスできて非常に満足。単体としての稼働音も気にならないレベル。仕事部屋においてあるが付属のアダプタのコイルなきが酷いのが気になってリビングに置く気にならない。バックアップなどを考えると2ベイ以上にすればよかったなと思った。

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

用途はスマホや過去デジカメで撮った写真のバックアップ及びドキュメント類の保存。一人で使用。 SMBでスマホから接続しバックアップも取れるし、ドライブをマウントすればエクスプローラーで簡単にファイルのコピーも可能。 バックアップを取るだけならばとても扱いやすいです。 ただ、普段はOneDriveを使用しているため、そのような写真の一覧化くらいはできるだろうと思っていたけどそこに罠がありました。 たしかにSynology Photosを使えば一覧化はできるかもしれませんが、一覧化するためのフォルダが決まっており、ただバックアップとしてファイルをコピーしただけではSynology Photosに読み込まれません。 （Synology Photosに読み込ませるためにはPhotosというフォルダに入れなければいけない。） また、アプリも少なく、画像・動画・音楽くらいは見ることができますが、GPSログを見るというようなこともできません。エンタメ性はほぼ皆無ですね。既存のアプリのラインナップを見る限り、そういう遊びに使えそうなアプリが今後増えることは期待できなそう。 ApacheやPHPはインストールできるようなのでWebサーバを立ち上げて、Nextcloudとかをインストールしたほうが自分の用途にはいいのかもしれませんが、逆を言えばそこまでしないといけないのか、と。 ハード面は本体のカバーがプラか樹脂のようなものでできているため防音性能はほぼ皆無。 駆動中ファンは静かですが、HDDのカリカリという音がうるさいです。 あとファイルのインデックス処理にもすごい時間がかかります。 仕方がないので当初の目的は諦めてOSのバックアップ先として使おうかと思っています。

Decent Good product for who need own cloud storage for photos and videos for privacy and only for personal usage, It's only 1gigabit lan speed so better for personal use. Synology photos app are very usefull for uploading photo and video automatically. Synology gives many apps like drive, notes online streaming,