Synology Unveils DiskStation DS723+, a Capable Storage Device with a Small Footprint

[A Computer Guy]

There's no denying the AIO prebuilt NAS boxes are poor value, but it's hard to beat their form factor or low power consumption.

Despite my dislike of Synology as an SMB/Enterprise vendor, their budget home stuff is great because DSM is actually pretty decent as a simple consumer NAS OS, the units are cheap, tiny, quiet, and low-power. For something I want to set-and-forget, run 24/7 and not cost much - they fit the bill.

This DS 723+?
No. It's twice the price is needs to be to appeal to the consumer market. QNAP, Asustor, Teramaster have it beaten for less.

I gripe about the Synology price a bit but when compared to something like TrueNAS Mini the Synology products begin to look like a pretty good deal up to a point