A great home investment for media sharing and backing up your memories
Having a NAS at home is become more and more of a normal thing. It’s a great private storage solution, and it becomes easy to share media and files among devices in your household. The Synology DS720+ is a good NAS offering if you’ve never set up a NAS before – it’s simple to use thanks to Synology’s straightforward OS, and if you want to upgrade things at a later date, you have some great options at hand. For slightly more advanced users, there’s enough here to keep them interested as well. Flip over the base to install M.2 drives to improve read/write speeds, or install some of the more advanced apps such as Docker to run virtual machines right off your NAS. The DS720+ excels at being a central point for all your data and backups across a multitude of devices, and sharing files across your network as well as on the go is very easy to do. For users who’ve run out of storage on popular file storage services, Synology’s own apps allow you to backup files, photos, and more with easy syncing methods. Apps such as Plex are also easy to set up, and you’ll be organizing and streaming your entire media library in record time. If you’re in the market for more than two bays or want something with faster network connectivity, then there are plenty of other options from Synology that you can cast your gaze at. But if you’re in the market for a straightforward NAS that you can safely tuck away in the corner of your home, then this is definitely one to consider. The DS720+ is priced at AED 1,970 and is available through DataCare. That’s a considerable investment to make for a home NAS, without even including the cost of hard drives. The DS720+ is more of an investment rather than a simple off-the-shelf network storage solution. At this price point, it’s important to remember that you’re not just getting a file repository, but also a media server, backup server, and countless other options – depending on what apps you install on it. Yes, it’s expensive compared to other storage solutions on the market, but there’s also a lot more on offer here. There’s nothing really unique about the DS720+’s design – it looks like any other NAS from Synology’s lineup.
