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I gave this five stars because it fits what *I* need. You should do significant research before investing in this sort of thing. 1) I am NOT using this for a server for media although it can serve that purpose. 2) See 1. :) So... Here is how I use it and in what situation it gets a 5 out of 5 from me. *I have the system mirrored using RAID 1. This means I have TWO 8TB disks because mirroring duplicates rather than giving more space. *The Synology box is powered OFF 5 days a week. *On Sat/Sun we do full backups of all 5 PCs in the house using Acronis software. *MAKE ABSOLUTELY SURE THAT WHATEVER BACKUP SYSTEM YOU USE CAN ALLOW YOU TO BOOT A FAILED SYSTEM IN SUCH A WAY AS TO SEE THE Synology NAS! *I also back up my Google Cloud stuff once a week (in case I do something stupid when deleting things) *I also separately back up all of my music and photos as they don't change much and exclude these from weekly backups. *When all that stuff is backed up I either power off the system until next week, or once a month bring my external USB 3.0 8TB drive in from my remote location to back up the whole NAS in case of fire or other catastrophe. So far it succeeded in restoring a failed HD with no problem.