I am looking at installing a NAS Drive at my home office, mainly for backup purposes and file storage (wanting to move away from storing files in Dropbox, One Drive, Google Drive and iCloud). I also want to have the ability to access and share files remotely from the NAS device.

I am currently looking at a 2-bay RAID1 setup and the two candidates that I am considering are the Synology DS218+ and the WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra.

The Synology unit seems to be the gold standard but it is a lot more expensive than the WD unit.

My question is: is the extra cost of the Synology unit justified for my purposes?