Synology DiskStation DS224+ 2-Bay NAS Enclosure vs Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra
What separates them
These two differ on 3 recorded specifications. The Synology DiskStation DS224+ 2-Bay NAS Enclosure is $170.99 dearer. They are different kinds of product — network attached storage against network gateway and controller — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
Synology DiskStation DS224+ 2-Bay NAS Enclosure vs Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra
Synology
Synology DiskStation DS224+ 2-Bay NAS Enclosure
$299.99
Sold without drives, which is the first thing to budget for -- two 8 TB NAS drives cost more than the enclosure does.
Full details →Ubiquiti
Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra
$129.00
It is a router and the UniFi controller in one box, which removes the separate Cloud Key from a small deployment and is the main reason to choose it.
Full details →Who the Synology DiskStation DS224+ 2-Bay NAS Enclosure is for
Buy it if: Small offices wanting file shares, backup targets and Synology Drive on hardware they own.
Avoid it if: Anyone treating RAID as a backup, or expecting 4K transcoding for media serving.
Who the Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra is for
Buy it if: Small sites wanting routing, firewalling and the UniFi controller from one appliance.
Avoid it if: Deployments heading past about 30 UniFi devices, which need a Dream Machine Pro or a separate controller.
Specifications, side by side
3 of 17 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | Synology DiskStation DS224+ 2-Bay NAS Enclosure | Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $299.99 | $129.00 |
| Annual energy use | About 129 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $22 at $0.17 per kWh | About 105 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $18 at $0.17 per kWh |
| Rated power | About 14.7 W in access, 4.4 W at hibernation | About 12 W |
| Warranty | 2-year limited warranty | 1-year limited hardware warranty |
| Capacity | 2 bay | not published |
| Client capacity | not published | About 300 concurrent clients |
| Cooling | not published | Fanless |
| Drive bays | 2 x 3.5 inch SATA, diskless | not published |
| LAN ports | not published | 4 x Gigabit Ethernet |
| Managed devices | not published | About 30 UniFi devices |
| Memory | 2 GB DDR4, expandable to 6 GB | not published |
| Network ports | 2 x Gigabit Ethernet with link aggregation | not published |
| Processor | Intel Celeron J4125 quad-core 2.0 GHz | not published |
| RAID levels | Basic, JBOD, RAID 0 and RAID 1 | not published |
| Routing throughput | not published | About 1 Gbps with IDS and IPS enabled |
| Storage | not published | 128 GB internal for logs and controller data |
| USB ports | 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 | not published |
| WAN port | not published | 1 x 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet |
Every row is a figure one or both products record. A blank is a figure the catalogue does not hold, not a zero.
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