*which I recommend, not just because they’ve given helpful advice for a previous Synology review, but also because they’ll build and test the unit free of charge. This is a bog-standard RAID configuration and up until now I would have gone along with the conventional wisdom that this is the sensible way to attain around 11TB of network-attached storage capacity. Look at it like this: the total hardware cost of Tested Technology’s workhorse NAS, the QNAP TS-451+ with 4 6TB WD Reds is about £1,400. A big, expensive drive in a small, cheap enclosure. Same official price, double the memory-you’d be crazy to spend your money on the older version *.īut if you’ve already done that, the good news is that everything that follows here also applies to the DS-119j. Although Synology seems to be fielding the DS120j as the DS119j’s successor, it would probably be more accurate to call it the DS119j replacement. So the only difference is the (inextensible) memory capacity of the two machines. But as the main cost here is the Iron Wolf drive, a bargain on the enclosure won’t make much difference. *Unless you can get the DS119j in a sale for very much less. I think we can take it that the drive handling of both Synology devices is actually identical and that future drive sizes, 18 and 20TB and beyond, will also be catered for. This information came from the Synology spec sheet, but I now believe that limit was only there because 16TB drives weren’t on the market when the older NAS was launched. We wrote in the Prelude that the biggest drive the DS119j can handle is 14TB and that the DS120j now extends that to 16TB.
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Nevertheless, like the DS119j, this improved version is still able to handle only a very small subset of the DSM operating system’s full capability.īut what we’re focussing on here is the drive capacity.
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It helps to keep the price down (less than £100 from some vendors) and Synology’s selling proposition has always been that it knows how to get the very best out of economical hardware. The memory is doubled to 512MB-still tiny by modern NAS standards.
The single-bay DS120j is pretty much the identical twin of the DS119j we reviewed last year. The logo on the side of the DS120j also doubles as ventilation.
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