DiskStation Reviews & Ratings 2025

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Overview

What is DiskStation?

DiskStation is a line of network-attached storage (NAS) solutions from Synology headquartered in Taiwan.

Reliable storage platform that offers a full set of additional roles

Rating: 9 out of 10

April 28, 2025

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We use a Synology DiskStation in our environment as a basic file server for centralized storage for several different departments. Rather than spin up and maintain an expensiv...

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Manager

3 years of experience

No more Cloud Storage

Rating: 9 out of 10

April 26, 2025

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Synology DiskStation is responsible to control my NAS which is responsible for the backup of all my computers. DS is specialized for Synology DiskStation and has applications ...

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C-Level Executive

3 years of experience

Best bang for the Buck

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 25, 2025

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I use several Synology DiskStations at different clients- gerat for storage and backups- love the different apps and we let users store music and pictures on some for personal...

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Administrator

10 years of experience

Number 1 in Stability and Usability

Rating: 9 out of 10

April 25, 2025

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While more and more products are cloud based nowadays, we also have some technologies that are local to the building, such as access control and camera systems. These need a d...

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Professional

1 year of experience

Synology DiskStation - Robust Product for Everyday Backups!

Rating: 9 out of 10

February 14, 2025

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We currently have multiple Synology DiskStation's in our environment and have been very happy with them. They are used for general backup with Veeam, Self-hosted IP Camera sol...

Kyle Bergeron

Manager - Information Technology

IT Manager

Sciperio, Inc.

6 years of experience

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What is DiskStation?

Synology's storage solutions provide data availability and simplify IT challenges with software and data management tools.

DiskStation Features

Supported: Network Attached Storage
Supported: Acts as the user's own Private Cloud
Supported: Offers a variety of sizes to suit the user's needs

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DiskStation Technical Details

Deployment Types	On-premise
Operating Systems	Linux
Mobile Application	Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web

Frequently Asked Questions

DiskStation is a line of network-attached storage (NAS) solutions from Synology headquartered in Taiwan.

QNAP NAS, Veeam Data Platform, and TrueNAS are common alternatives for DiskStation.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of DiskStation are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).

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Synology is the easy button for us

Rating: 9 out of 10

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October 08, 2021

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Manager in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 201-500 employees

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Verified User

10 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Frankly, I love these NAS's. Are there other brands that are good? Sure. However, the operating system is beautiful, and among the best, I've seen. Where else can you have 100+ terabytes of storage for a couple of grand? This is currently being used for Veeam backup and offsite replication, and the included hyper backup for business is outstanding for forever forwards backups at no additional cost.

Pros

Backups are crazy simple with hyper backup
Replication of cloud backups is just as easy for DR
100+ TB for a couple grand
Fantastic solution for security cameras, though you have to pay for that license
quiet and efficient

Cons

Proprietary RAM, that is WAY overpriced. 150 bucks for 16gb? Wow
Support could respond quicker, though I rarely need it
Expansion devices could be priced more aggressively

Likelihood to Recommend

It's dead simple. The OS makes it simple. Qnap? The OS isn't even in the same ballpark. I would rate it a 10 if they included more RAM, and didn't WAY overprice for adding/upgrading the RAM. I would not use it as a SAN replacement, but it's a great place to dump data, or for workgroups, and is a perfect backup medium.

Synology DiskStation is a great backup tool, for small to medium companies.

Rating: 10 out of 10

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November 06, 2020

Filiberto Martinez

IT Coordinator

Chihuahua Electrical Wiring systems (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees)

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Verified User

3 years of experience

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Synology DiskStation is being used to perform local backups from multiple servers across our facilities. We manage an entire facility with more that 1000 employees and all information that is created under all applications from every department, warehouse, Final assembly, Quality etc, along with shared folder for all users is backup locally using Synology disk station. We rely in this unit perform daily backups for all information and to have this same date available at any time during any contingency.

Pros

Very easy setup.
Fast restores.
Excellent applications within the integrated OS.
Efficient support.
Easy to ready and understand log of events.

Cons

A display indicator in the device would be great for priority events.
The unit power supply failed, an alert with more details in this events would be great.
Even when restore is easy and in good time I believe it could be improved.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's a reliable backup system with great support for your local backups.

You can create multiple user, provide them with access you want, and create multiple backup routines.

Synology NAS - A must have for any organization

Rating: 10 out of 10

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February 02, 2022

Al Schleicher

President

Advantage Business Solutions (Computer Networking, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

7 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used as an inexpensive way to add storage to servers and also for backup space. It also backs up all our O365 data.
We have also used it in other locations to replace servers completeley and to function as a Domain.

Pros

Backup O365 - OneDrive & Sharepoint
Simple to setup iSCSI for additional server storage
Replication between Synology for off-site backups

Cons

mobile device backups

Likelihood to Recommend

We use it in the office and I also own one myself. We have setup multiple clients with Synology DiskStation and it has met or exceeded our expectations. It's great for eliminating servers at remote locations, Syncing data between locations and a very inexpensive way to free up space from servers. Additionally we have used it for server backups using built-in MS Server Backup, Acronis, StorageCraft, etc.

Synology DiskStation is a best in class NAS system with the power and features to do so much more

Rating: 9 out of 10

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October 19, 2021

Aaron Pinsker

Owner

Colorado Computer Care (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)

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Verified User

8 years of experience

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Synology DiskStation is being used for multiple purposes across multiple organizations. The primary use is as a generic file server, but it is also being used as an all-in-one photo management solution (utilizing Synology's PhotoStation or Synology Photos in the latest version of DiskStation), a VPN server (either L2TP or OpenVPN), and an Active Directory Server. It is also used to host virtual machines to handle functions that the DiskStation can't handle natively (such as running a QuickBooks database, Ubiquiti UniFi Controller, etc.)

Pros

Synology's DiskStation Manager (DSM) provides a robust RAID experience with multiple RAID types available, including Synology's own RAID implementation (Synology Hybrid RAID - SHR)
DSM includes a full-blown app ecosystem to extend its functionality beyond its built-in features.
Synology is constantly updating DSM with not only performance, bug and security fixes but with major changes as well. In fact, the newest version of DSM, DSM 7, was just recently released.
The same version of DSM comes with all of Synology NAS products, from simple single drive models all the way up to enterprise-grade models with upwards of 20 drive bays.
DSM is not just a simple firmware OS, it is a full-blown Linux OS with all the features and benefits (and pitfalls) that entails.
The default file system for DSM is BTRFS. BTRFS provides some advanced functionality (such as snapshots, bit rot protection and compression) over Linux's default ext4 filesystem.

Cons

While BTRFS is a more advanced file system than ext4, it also is in a perpetual state of development, with many features not fully functional and a plethora of bugs. Synology has managed to overcome many of these limitations by placing BTRFS on top of a LVM, but there are much better file systems that Synology could have used, such as OpenZFS.
DSM's built-in backup software, HyperBackup, while robust, oftentimes runs into issues. Specifically, backups can be working fine for months or years, and then suddenly the backups will fail. Sometimes these failures can be resolved, but oftentimes the backups need to be completely restarted. Fortunately, even when the backup fails, the existing backups are still accessible, it is just that new backups can not be performed.
The underlying Linux OS provides significant benefits, but also adds a fair amount of complexity. Most of that complexity is wonderfully hidden by the DSM interface, but when certain problems arise, delving into the Linux command line is not out of the question.
Perhaps the biggest issue with Synology DiskStation is Synology's support. The issue isn't that the support is bad, but it can be frustratingly slow when dealing with a major issue. Synology does have a very active community that is always willing to help, but nothing beats first-party support.

Likelihood to Recommend

Synology DiskStation is extremely versatile and scalable and is thus useful in a plethora of scenarios - from a simple home NAS solution to an enterprise-level setup. There are two main scenarios in which Synology IS not well suited:
1.) when a person needs a simple plug and play setup for basic NAS system and
2.) when an organization needs more than a NAS setup, but a full-blown SAN setup.
In virtually all other scenarios, Synology is a perfect fit.