Ashy

Well, I don’t know how much it’s using but I suspected it was somewhere between 0 and 550 ;)

Yeah, that’s how power adapters usually work. Thanks.

I really don’t know much it’s actually using but my NAS has a 550W power adapter …

My only gripe(s): only 2 USB ports

I have a DS2422+ and even that only has 2 USB ports. But you can expand them with a USB-hub. I had 5 external drives connected over a single port without issues.

Synology’s limited list of “approved” HDDs.

You can use this script and put it as a scheudeled task “on boot”. It will automatically add all your harddrives to the list of verified drives, disabling all warnings and errors with it.

Still makes more sense than this post.