This was so nearly a slam dunk for me – I’ve been waiting for the DS3617xs+ replacement for what seems like forever, but the vendor lock-in is a deal-breaker for me. It’s all incredibly reminiscent of how Drobo solutions are presented (who also knew how to present their solutions to content creators and post-production professionals in the Mac world) and the effect is not lost.

Synology’s Diskstation Manager software that comes with this device provides a massive arrangement of services, applications (first and third-party supported) and a huge number of client applications for Desktop clients, Mobile, Windows, Mac and Linux (as well as a bunch of other more home-based tools). rebuilding a raid1 with 2*seagate exos 16TB (80% full, warnings turned off through script) on our DS1823xs+ takes <10 hours) . This is a community hub that serves as a place that I can answer your question, chew the fat, share new release information and even get corrections posted.This is important because I would not have bought a Synology if I had known that they are only compatible with their own disks! The hardware is beefy enough to boot the VMs to the login-screen within our specified time windown of 4min. All trademarks are acknowledged and belong to their respective owners, images and data are for illustration purposes only and may not reflect a true likeness of the product in question. But a 20TB drive could very well take 24+ hours which in turn leaves your array in a vulnerable state for a second failure. Perhaps a CPU/Chipset limitation, perhaps because saturating 20GbE (10G x2) is less of a universal sure thing.

eSATA provides 6Gb/s (600MB/s cap) which is reasonable for a 5-bay expansion, though the support of the DX1222 12-Bay 2Gb/s HD miniSAS (as found in the DS3622xs+) would have been nice.So by sharing your query in the ASK NASCompares section below, you can get a better range of solutions and suggestions, alongside my own. Arguably this is all frivolous, but then again, there is certainly a common association between Synology and Mac-based content creators, so it all adds up. However, fair play to Synology, their range of cards has expanded hugely in the last 2-3 years and you have the option of 1-2 Port 10GbE cards, as well as dual port 25Gb FC cards too. SSD storage bays (as well as expansion ports) and the Synology DS1823xs+ continues this trend, but also improves upon in a fraction too.

I’ve had occasion to use them a few times over the years, but the OOB feature makes it all but redundant.If you don’t put the nas in a place where noise isn’t a problem, use SSD if you use your nas constantly or time it so the drives sleep during the day. The Btrfs file system helps prevent data corruption or loss through metadata mirroring, file self-healing, and efficient point-in-time snapshots. Finally, for free advice about your setup, j ust leave a message in the comments below here at NASCompares.