Introduction
Aimed at both business and home users in need of gigantic amounts of storage, the DS1815+ is an eight-bay NAS from Synology, powered by a quad-core CPU and up to 6GB of memory. This places it at the very opposite end of the performance scale from the single-bay DS115J that came out late last year.
With a retail cost of around £850 (US$1030, AU$132) it’s at the upper end of NAS pricing, although one step below the level occupied by rack-mount NAS units, such as the Thecus NN810U-G or Synology’s 12-bay RackStation RS3614xs+.
There’s space for eight hot-swappable 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch disks, which offers up to 48TB of internal storage (when using 6TB hard disks) and this can be extended further by purchasing a pair of external five-bay DX513 modules, which connect to the unit’s two eSATA ports at the back. Therefore, if you need it, the DS1815+ offers up to 108TB of storage space. The DS1815+ also support hardware-based encryption of your entire file system.
It has four gigabit ethernet ports, which can be configured for redundancy in case of failure, or together via link aggregation to offer up to …read more
Source: techradar.com – PC and Mac