CONTEST ALERT - Synology-Digit NAS Review Contest - Win NAS units and HDDs

[Cool Buddy]

@Aestivial did you get one 1TB or two? You got DS220+ right?

 

[Aestivial]

@Aestivial did you get one 1TB or two? You got DS220+ right?

1TB, and yep DS220+

 

[Cool Buddy]

1TB, and yep DS220+

Oh. So we can't test RAID configurations.

 

[whitestar_999]

Mixed impressions so far. Will do more testing over next couple of days, deadline is 19th June, right @Anorion & any guidelines/format needed to be followed for reviews?

 

[Cool Buddy]

Received my single Seagate Barracuda 1 TB drive. Will try out later in the evening.

 

[sygeek]

Received my HDD today as well. Chaliye shuru karte hai

 

[Aestivial]

Is it just me or the whole things is kinda.... slow?

 

[whitestar_999]

Is it just me or the whole things is kinda.... slow?

You got DS220 & still felt it slow, think about those(incl myself) who got much slower(hardware wise) DS120j.

 

[RumbaMon19]

Is it just me or the whole things is kinda.... slow?

u mean transfer rates or web ui?
i have ds120j and there is no problem with transfer rates, the webui would be faster if was connected through rdp. But instead it is just a webpage made to look like desktop.

 

[whitestar_999]

u mean transfer rates or web ui?
i have ds120j and there is no problem with transfer rates, the webui would be faster if was connected through rdp. But instead it is just a webpage made to look like desktop.

Have you tested the speeds with wifi?

 

[RumbaMon19]

Have you tested the speeds with wifi?

my router only supports 10/100 ethernet and 2.4 G wifi, i transferred a 6.8Gig file. The transfer was pretty smooth with speed of 8.5-8.7 mbps, which is indeed near to 100 megabits/s.

there was no dip in speed, and did not go below 8mbps. Pretty smooth.

 

[sygeek]

Is it just me or the whole things is kinda.... slow?

How do you mean?

 

[Cool Buddy]

Is it just me or the whole things is kinda.... slow?

It's a 2 Ghz dual core Celeron, so can't be very fast. Having said that, it is felt only when on the web UI. However, NAS, by it's very design, is not meant to be used directly through its interface, it is only meant to be setup through the interface and accessed remotely. And so far, for me, any form of remote access does not feel slow at all.

u mean transfer rates or web ui?
i have ds120j and there is no problem with transfer rates, the webui would be faster if was connected through rdp. But instead it is just a webpage made to look like desktop.

afaik, the OS is designed to run in headless mode and DSM doesn't have a UI at all. Safe to say if it was rendering a full fledged GUI, it would only be slower.

 

[RumbaMon19]

It's a 2 Ghz dual core Celeron

no its not celeron it is a marvel ARM cpu, different instructions set.

the OS is designed to run in headless mode and DSM doesn't have a UI at all. Safe to say if it was rendering a full fledged GUI, it would only be slower.

it would not be possible as it does not have gpu. I was just giving the idea of what is going on…

 

[Cool Buddy]

no its not celeron it is a marvel ARM cpu, different instructions set.

Yes, 120j has Marvell Armada.
DS220+ has Celeron Dual Core

 

[RumbaMon19]

DS220+ has Celeron Dual Core

that would be significant Bump in performance over Marvell Armada.

 

[Cool Buddy]

that would be significant Bump in performance over Marvell Armada.

Definitely. Even the clock speed is much higher, 2 Ghz Vs. 800 Mhz. And not to forget the RAM, which is actually upgradable to 6 GB.

 

[whitestar_999]

And so far, for me, any form of remote access does not feel slow at all.

NAS is actually meant for streaming stuff & higher the quality, higher will be the load on processor.e.g. try streaming a 10MB/s video bitrate file & you will see.

my router only supports 10/100 ethernet and 2.4 G wifi, i transferred a 6.8Gig file. The transfer was pretty smooth with speed of 8.5-8.7 mbps, which is indeed near to 100 megabits/s.

I tried with a 1gbps ethernet connection & reached speeds of ~50MB/s which I believe is hardware limitation on 120j as a 7200rpm hdd which is 90% empty should easily achieve around 80-90MB/s speeds.

 

[RumbaMon19]

I tried with a 1gbps ethernet connection & reached speeds of ~50MB/s which I believe is hardware limitation on 120j as a 7200rpm hdd which is 90% empty should easily achieve around 80-90MB/s speeds.

Yupp. Also that processor is not that much capable with just 512MB ram

 

[_.yash007._]

Finally, received my NAS today