The J Series always represents good value and the DS410j is no exception. But the incremental bump from the DS418j might well make people consider the older model if it can be found at a reduced price.

Hybrid reid support gives you truly scalable storage. The system has a number of disadvantages, for example, there is no tool for managing the storage. You can manage your files, but the files created by the services are inaccessible and are deleted only together with the services. which these files create.

This is applicable to all Synology NAS, not only the DS420j: The Synology DiskStation 7 software running on all Synology NAS is fantastic and a big plus. Synology applications (packages) are mature and extremely well integrated and there is a package for anything you would want to do on a NAS/server. Synology support is free and second to none. IMO, these are good reasons to buy Synology, regardless of the particular NAS you chose. I bought a DS420j to replace a DS416play now 6 years old. The RD1296 ARM CPU in the DS420j performs noticeably faster than the Celeron in the DS416play. The DS420j has “only” 1 GB of RAM, but DiskStation 7 runs ...view more

Nice and simple to setup have dozens of applications