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The drives in the NAS are effectively sealed away after you screw closed the DS216j's case. The capacity maxes out at 16TB with two 8TB NAS drives, the largest currently available. If you formatted the drives for a RAID Level 0 (striping) array, you'll have approximately 11TB of storage, but you'll lose all your files if one drive fails. As a result, the NAS stores up to 5.4TB (formatted), but the files you store will be protected from single-drive failure. We installed two 6TB Hitachi Deskstar NAS drives (approximately $250 each), and the DS216j defaulted to formatting them in a RAID Level 1 (mirroring) array. The NAS is sold diskless for a lower purchase price, and to give you flexibility when choosing how much storage you ultimately want to pay for.

#SYNOLOGY BITTORRENT SYNC INSTALL#

You'll need a Phillips screwdriver to install your own 3.5- or 2.5-inch SATA drives, since none are included. Read our editorial mission (Opens in a new window) & see how we test (Opens in a new window). Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. The back panel has a Gigabit Ethernet port, a Kensington lock port, and two USB 3.0 ports for moving data to external drives. On its front panel are the Power button and status LEDs for power, LAN activity, and the activity of the two internal drives. The white plastic DS216j ($699.99 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window) is about the size of a large external desktop hard drive, measuring 6.5 by 3.9 by 8.9 inches, so it is fairly unobtrusive if you connect it to your home router and just leave it there. Out of the box, the DS216j is a central file repository, so it's ready to keep your backups and files in a central location that's accessible from anywhere. Downloadable apps give it plenty of extra functionality like personal cloud syncing, multimedia services, and security camera recording, though you'll have to install each service separately. After you set it up with a couple of internal drives, it's ready to serve files over both your home network and the Internet. The Synology DiskStation DS216j ($169.99) is a dual-drive consumer network-attached storage (NAS) device that's simple to install and administer. You'll need to download, install, and set up each service individually.

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