Hi,
Want to ask about the WD-Red HDD for NAS.
I am buying Synology DS213J and do I really need WD-RED? or normal WD-Green will do?

At the end, i bought RED and lets hope the extra money give me peace of mind

Just finished setup my new Synology DS213j 3TB (WD-RED) - RAID 1 last weekend and migrated all my files from my old D-Link DNS323 500GB - RAID1.
Tested the single file (5.29GB) transfer from my iMac to DS213j via Gigabit LAN. Time spent about 2 mins and the writing speed to NAS is average 60MB/s to 85MB/s, highest speed rate at 100MB/s.
I am very pleased with the result of my upgrade!




This post has been edited by philipcs: Dec 29 2013, 10:52 PM

I am using the DS213j as well.
What kind of remote access you are referring?
How you plan to remote access your NAS? via what app?

I am using iOS Synology DS Apps, i just port forward 5000 and 5005 from my router to my NAS and it works over Internet.

Depend on your router model, shouldn't be hard to do port forwarding.

Once you have done the port forwarding on your router, then you need to configure your DS213J and install apps on your iOS or Android devices.
For this, refer to this step by step video guide - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsZQV3sSeFY

Fully agree! If you just want NAS for storage, I think DLink is doing pretty good job. Transfer rate is fast on Gigabits LAN too.

I am also having this concern therefore i just re-use my old DNS323 + 1.5TB (JBOD) + Fun_Plug + RSYNC to build a rsync server to backup my Synology.
But the rsync transfer speed is Sooooooo slow..... average 2MB/s

The rsync backup is initiated by Synology backup application. Seems like rsync is slow and should manually copy the data like you mentioned, then subsequent incremental / differential backup can be handled by rsync.

Hi,
I am new Synology DS213j user and i am having iMac + Windows 8 environment too.
I am very happy with my purchase and the file sharing, streaming from android tv box, ipad, iphone are so easy and smooth.
Synology DS213j is supporting Time Machine backup too and support AFP, SMB, NFS so the configuration for any PC or tablet is very easy.
feel free to ask me if you have any question

If you want to see how to setup Synology NAS (HW & Configuration), you can refer to this youtube playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8DC9A6392AD66D7F


This post has been edited by philipcs: Jan 10 2014, 11:26 AM

If you dont need USB3.0, get the DS213j will do

You can use the compare production function to check which model has what feature

http://www.synology.com/en-global/products/compare_products


Update:
Seems like all 2 bays DS model all support Cloud Station

http://www.synology.com/en-global/products...DS213j/DS213air

This post has been edited by philipcs: Feb 13 2014, 08:50 PM

If budget not an issue, go with recommended HDD, WD RED because WD and few NAS company (Synology is one of them) joint design and develop the RED model.
The supported NAS will optimize the performance and stability of RED HDD via the firmware design.

If want to go budget, GREEN also ok, as i am using my GREEN on DNS-323 for many years already still going strong

Recent update of Synology DSM 5.0 and the update of Synology mobile apps allow me to cast video, audio and photo from my NAS to TV via Chromecast Very useful!

I have Synology mobile app, DS Video installed in my iPhone / iPad.
Open the video from the DS Video app and you will see the Casting button on the top right. Then you can choose which chromecast to play the video in TV.

However, I have observed the below limitation of chromecast:
- It not supporting AVI and RMVB file format, i haven't try the MKV yet.
- Playing full HD (1080p) is a bit lagging and could be due to the reason Chromecast is running on Wifi or poor performance of Chromecast.

Yes, chrome is not powerful at all and unable to playback 1080p, at least from Synology mobile apps. I am sure 2nd generation of Chromecast will be better in term of Full HD playback performance.

For me, I prefer Android tv box because I can play anything from any file server, USB drive, HDD in Full HD video via 1Gb LAN.

I got it from the forumer here.

You can use your Synology DSM File Station, mount the remote folder from your Qnap.
Then copy directly from Synology to QNAP without using PC.

If you are on 1Gb LAN, then the speed will be much faster too.



This post has been edited by philipcs: May 5 2014, 05:41 PM

Cheapest 2 Bays NAS, i think Dlink 320.

If you want more feature and functionality, i will go for Synology.
I paid RM585 for DS213J and i am so far very happy with my purchase

if you want to know more about what Synology can do, try to google Synology DSM to learn more.

This post has been edited by philipcs: May 5 2014, 08:21 PM

I followed this guide to turn my old Dlink 323 to RSync server to backup my data in Synology DS213J.

http://www.fatdex.net/php/2013/05/20/how-t...ackup-location/

Dont use RSYNC if you just want to "copy" data from old NAS to new NAS. The RSync speed is very slow by design.

For backup wise, then ok to use RSYNC

Try to ask @Devour