Review: Synology DS1815+ Review

Review: Synology DS1815+ Review

By Orestis Bastounis

Review: Synology DS1815+ Review

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+.

Synology DS8185+ front

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.

Synology DS8185+ rear

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

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