{"id":4207,"date":"2014-08-26T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4207"},"modified":"2014-08-19T23:10:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T23:10:14","slug":"linked-shawn-blanc-reviews-the-synology-ds213j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/08\/26\/linked-shawn-blanc-reviews-the-synology-ds213j\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: Shawn Blanc reviews the Synology DS213j"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/2014\/07\/synology-review\/\">via Shawn Blanc<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Since the Synology is attached directly to my modem, it has its own connection to the Internet. But all NAS drives connect direct to the modem (usually). The Synology is cool because, since it has its own operating system, it doesn\u2019t require a dedicated Mac in order for the files to be accessible from my home or from anywhere else in the world. While it\u2019s not quite as powerful as a Headless Mac mini plus NAS setup would be, it is about $1,000 less expensive. And if you\u2019re just wanting to dip your toe in the water with this stuff, from where I\u2019m sitting, a Synology DiskStation is a great place to start.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shawn\u2019s review covers most of what I\u2019ve wanted to say about my DS214 Play which is similar to what Shawn has but also has a hardware transcoder to compress &amp; encode media files at the NAS (great for streaming content to my iPad from the road).<\/p>\n<p>I do want to write more about the unit once I\u2019ve had more time with it. My experience while similar to Shawn\u2019s is quite a bit more intense because I had much more content. My iTunes library alone was 3.9 terabytes (almost filling up my LaCie Blade Runner) and I had another 800 megabytes of files from when I was younger, school work, memories, etc. Then there\u2019s the 400 gigabytes of RAW images that live on my iMac. I ended up getting two 6 terabyte WD Red drives and w\/ mirroring the NAS is almost completely full. I attached my 4 terabyte Blade Runner (USB3) to the back of the NAS and that is where my 3 computers back up via the wired\/wireless network.<\/p>\n<p>I plan on doing more with the Synology over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Shawn Blanc: Since the Synology is attached directly to my modem, it has its own connection to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","category-technology","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-15R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4605,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/04\/28\/tech-synology-nas-6-months-later\/","url_meta":{"origin":4207,"position":0},"title":"Tech: Synology NAS 6 months later","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year, I initiated a home networking project to move my storage from an array of multiple desktop hard drives to a Network Attached Storage located in the basement. 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