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Synology DS223 NAS Review – The Importance of Value?
I think it would be fair to say that if you have been pondering leaving the relatively affordable but access/privacy questionable storage of Cloud services and moving towards your own compact private server, then Synology NAS has likely already appeared on your radar. Operating for more than 20 years, Synology has (largely thanks to their DSM software and services) been able to rise to the top of the home/business user market for the most part when it comes to turnkey NAS solutions. However, you cannot purchase DSM separately and in order access this platform and use it to manage your own NAS server, you need to buy a Synology Diskstation or Rackstation solution – and HERE is where alot of home/small business users start to show signs of sweat. With the bulk of mid-high performance desktop NAS solutions from Synology arriving at the $500-1000 mark (and that is without the all-important HDDs or SSDs), some find the entry point into the Synology NAS ecosystem a little daunting. However, this is where the Synology DS223 NAS 2-Bay enters the conversation, an entry-level/Value class Diskstation NAS that, although modest in size and price, is designed to give users access to around 70-80% of the Synology DSM software and services. The Synology DS223 NAS is the (some might say long, LONG overdue) refresh of the 2017/2018 released DS218. Although doing so with seemingly little in the way of change over it’s predecessor (indeed, just the CPU on the face of it, but more on that later), in our review of the DS223 NAS, I want to help you see if this new value series NAS deserves your money and your data? Let’s go.
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