I am beginner in the area and was looking for a NAS "inexpensive" alternative to put my data in the home and external network specifically available. In my Synology operates a 3 GB WD RED.
About the most diverse and extensive adjustment possibilities Much has been written. An extensive German support forum is available and also a lot of video Tut's, which facilitates the establishment decided.
For me a MacBook Pro and a Windows PC to save the data. Furthermore, a lot of mobile access devices to the NAS, also via the very reliable app's Synology! The data is also backed up to an external hard drive via USB 3.0 that hangs on the NAS again!
An important tip: If you access from external to the NAS, for example invites the upload speed of your DSL connection, not the download speed via DYNDNS! Thus, the exchange of large data packets from external is very limited!
Means: (information Telekom)
DSL 1000 --- Upload max: 128 kbit / s
DSL 2000 --- Upload max: 192 kbit / s
DSL 3000 --- Upload max: 384 kbit / s
DSL 6000 --- Upload max: 576 kbit / s
DSL 16000 - upload max: 1024 kbit / s
VDSL 25 ----- upload max: 5,120 kbit / s
VDSL 50 ----- upload max: 10.240 kbit / s
Example measurements of myself (DSL 6000 RAM, at 3,048 Download): 500MB file takes about 1 hour, file with 2.3GB took about 5 hours
