With prices for most competing active/active IP SAN arrays starting at five figures, Synology’s UC3200 looks astoundingly good value. Overall performance is a mixed bag but the UC3200 receives top marks for its seamless and totally transparent failover services.
Everything about the DS1621xs+ exudes quality and it’s faster than the Atom-powered DS1618+ - a lot faster. Costing nearly $1,600, it may be comparatively expensive, but you’re getting plenty of hardware for your money including a 10GBase-T port, PCI-E slot, dual NVMe SSD cache slots and a high external expansion ...
Overall, we found the DS1520+ delivers good overall NAS and IP SAN performance and with Synology’s DSM software at the helm, offers a veritable feast of apps including some useful collaboration tools. Small businesses and home offices that want an affordable high capacity storage solution with room to grow will find ...
The TS-h886 is a great choice for businesses that place a high priority on data integrity and recovery. It ZFS-based QuTS takes much of the goodness from the tried and trusted QTS software and augments it with an impressive range of enterprise-class data protection and storage saving features.
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The DS920+ is a versatile little desktop appliance that offers a good turn of speed with the option of increasing random operations with an NVMe SSD cache. As with Synology’s other new entry-level models, it gets marked down for its lack of multi-Gigabit ports but otherwise, it’s a solid network storage choice made ...
It’s been a busy year so far for Synology as it has released an extensive range of NAS appliances aimed squarely at home and small office users. Its entry-level 2-bay models receive a welcome update and in this review we compare the DS220j and DS220+ to help you choose the right one. The DS220j targets home users ...
Both the DS720+ and DS420+ are great value and offer an impressive range of storage features with their NVMe SSD caching feature capable of making significant improvements to random operations. There are notable differences between them so which one graces your desktop or sideboard will depend on your specific ...
The TS-1886XU-RP delivers a powerful hardware package for the price and its clever internal design makes it a perfect candidate for SSD-accelerated storage services. Its compact chassis offers plenty of expansion potential, Qnap’s QTS software delivers a great range of storage features and it performed exceptionally ...
Synology continues to make inroads into the mid-range and enterprise storage markets with an appliance that focuses sharply on performance, on-premises capacity and scalability. Stepping up as the flagship of Synology’s SA series of 2U rackmount NAS models, the 12-bay SA3600 is powered by a 12-core 2.1GHz Xeon D-1567 ...
Introduction Consistently at the forefront of hard disk development, Seagate beats the competition by delivering the first 16TB drives to market. Aimed at NAS applications across a wide range of SME use case scenarios, its latest IronWolfs offer an impressive range of features teamed up with good value and in this ...
The SA3200D is a vastly superior solution to the RC18015xs+ as it provides all the same high-availability services but in a single appliance and at a more affordable price. Failover between the controllers will incur service downtime but our tests show this is well under a minute and the SA3200D also provides a wealth ...
