02-25-2021, 04:28 PM
You will be seeing great deals on Synology DS218+. Even though it is 2-3 years old, it is still a good choice. DS220+ feature an additional LAN port and a better CPU, but it has lost the eSATA port. For things like backing up your devices and having a cloud service, you will not notice any difference between these two. But you will notice DS220+ performing better in situations when there are 5 or more people accessing data simultaneously.This is a good NAS. DS718+ is already the next tier up allowing you to do virtual machines, web server and multiple RAID with expansion. But it will not perform any better at things like home cloud and backups tasks.I hope this helps