By Alan Stevens
Introduction and design
Marketed as a medium-sized business solution, the 8-bay DiskStation DS2015xs from Synology is a very scalable NAS appliance which, when teamed with an optional 12-bay expansion unit, has an impressive raw capacity of 120TB.
It also stands out due to its ARM-based quad-core processor which, although unusual on this class of NAS, has a decent enough spec and also provides the support needed for 10GbE fibre connectivity via a pair of SFP+ transceiver ports.
Design and spec
Designed to sit on a desktop or shelf, Synology’s new NAS shares the same very robust 8-bay chassis as the DS1815+ aimed at small business customers with disks mounted in plastic carriers that slide into hot-swappable slots at the front. There’s no door to protect the disks, but you can lock the carriers in place to prevent accidental removal and fit your own choice of 3.5-inch and/or 2.5-inch SATA drives, as required.
Disks aren’t included in the base price of around £960 inc taxes (around $1,480, AU$1,900), but most SATA products can be accommodated including both 3GBps SATA II and 6Gbps SATA III drives. We tested using 4TB …read more
Source: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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