Amazon currently offers the Synology DS220j 2-Bay NAS for $155.80 shipped. Normally fetching $190, you’re looking at a rare chance to save and at $34 off. This comes within $6 of the all-time low set back on Black Friday and the second-best we’ve seen overall. While this model originally sold for $170, the ongoing chip shortage raised the standard price, making today’s discount all the more notable for getting in on the always-on storage game without paying full price. As one of the more entry-level offers in the Synology stable, its DS220j NAS arrives with two hard drive bays and support for up to 32TB of storage. Ideal for everything from configuring a rountine backup server, playing around with smart home services like Home Assistant, and more, there’s a 1.4GHz processor and single Gigabit Ethernet port to deliver 112MB/s speeds. Learn more in our hands-on review from World Backup Day.
If you’re not ready to go all-in on a networked storage array, picking up something like the WD 4TB My Passport Hard Drive at $100 is a great alternative. Not only will you get 4TB of storage right out of the box, but the portable USB 3.0 design means you can backup a machine just about anywhere. It’s also great for plugging into supported routers for building your own NAS.
Though if you could just use some storage for your PC and don’t need to be storing massive backups or video archives, Lexar’s 2022 portable gaming SSD is worth a look. Now on sale in two different capacities, pricing starts at $85.50 for the 512GB model and then also carries over to the 1TB version with some of the best prices to date.
Synology DS220j 2-Bay NAS features:
Designed for home and personal users who need to store and share photos, videos, and documents, the DiskStation DS220j 2-Bay NAS Enclosure from Synology is an entry-level NAS for personal cloud storage that delivers an intuitive user interface and safe data protection approaches for easy digital asset backups from computers and mobile devices at no additional cost. It is equipped with two drive bays that are capable of natively supporting 3.5″ SATA hard drives, as well as 2.5″ SATA hard drives and SSDs with a drive bay adapter.
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