Synology DiskStation DS225+ 2 Bay Desktop NAS Enclosure

File Management Hub for Home, Home Office, and Edge

The Synology DiskStation DS225 is a compact 2-bay NAS solution designed to centralize data management, offering a comprehensive suite of tools through Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) for managing, sharing, and protecting files and photos, backing up devices and data, and serving as the core of a smart surveillance system.

A Compact & Capable Storage Platform

With a suite of robust data storage and backup solutions and capable performance, the compact 2-bay DS225 is ideal for use in homes, home offices, and as edge storage for retail locations, either as a point-of-sale data repository or as surveillance storage.
- Up to 282 MB/s sequential read and 217 MB/s sequential write performance enables fast file sharing, syncing, streaming, and backup for multiple users.
- Includes one 2.5GbE port and one 1GbE port, providing fast networking with failover support.
- Supports 2.5" SATA SSD and 3.5" SATA HDD. Synology hard drives and SSDs are designed to integrate seamlessly with Synology systems, delivering exceptional reliability.

Ease of Use and Security Features

A suite of convenience and security features, combined with DSM's intuitive UI, ensures a seamless experience for users of all levels of expertise.

- Easily access your system from any web browser via QuickConnect.
- Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication (AMFA) triggers upon suspicious external logins, providing an additional layer of security.
- Improve management efficiency with customizable delegation roles, allowing admins to quickly assign roles to non-admin users while restricting access to critical system settings.
- Active Insight, Synology's cloud-based fleet monitoring solution, leverages machine learning to detect malware and other malicious activity and automatically creates immutable snapshots to protect your data.

Built-in Data Protection Solutions

License-free solutions help protect data and configurations on your Synology system, ensure maximum system uptime, and backup and restore all your devices, VMs, and cloud applications.

- Synology Active Backup Suite consolidates backup tasks and offers rapid restoration of Windows and Linux endpoints, VMs, Synology NAS, and SaaS applications.
- Hyper Backup backs up your Synology system data to multiple destinations securely and efficiently with integrity checks and powerful deduplication, compression, and versioning options.
- Snapshot Replication provides schedulable, near-instantaneous data protection with version control, ensuring that all shared folders and LUNs on your Synology system remain safe and available.
- C2 Storage for Hyper Backup offers a dedicated secure public cloud destination for Synology NAS backup data.

A Collaboration, Communication, and Organization Hub

Synology provides a private cloud solution for on-site and remote workers, as well as home users, to concurrently edit documents, share files, manage emails, send instant messages, manage photos, and more.

- Synology Drive serves as a centralized hub to keep your files labelled and organized for easy access, offering granular file sharing permissions and customizable security features to ensure file safety.
- Synology Photos provides a comprehensive solution for storing, organizing, and sharing photos and videos, with powerful features suitable for both personal and professional use.
- Synology Office enables users to collaborate on documents, spreadsheets, and presentation slides in real time, supported by convenient options such as file versioning for easy restoration and password protection.
- Synology Chat brings teams together with one-on-one chats, group chats, and encrypted private channels over multiple platforms.
- Synology MailPlus provides a secure, reliable, and private email server.
- Synology Calendar helps teams keep track of priorities with convenient calendar sharing and scheduling.
- Synology Hybrid Share enhances multi-site teamwork with a global hybrid cloud file system which combines the scalability of the cloud with the fast local access provided by Synology systems.

Private Video Surveillance

Synology Surveillance Station transforms any Synology system into a powerful network video recorder (NVR).

- 8,700 supported camera models.
- ONVIF support for a broader selection of cameras.
- Private, subscription-free storage of recordings.
- Access through web browsers, desktop clients, and mobile apps.
- Event-based rules to trigger specific actions.
- Email, SMS, and push notification options.
- Simultaneous recording to the cloud with C2 Backup for Surveillance for an extra layer of data protection and more convenient sharing.