The object is quite compact and lightweight without disks, relatively quiet (silent and not performance mode), it might be even more with style series Green drives from Western Digital, which adapts the speed of the disks. Discs not heaters (~ 35 °), despite it being turned on H24. I regret all the plastic finish to almost 400, it's a shame, but it remains well finished and well assembled: no vibration, everything remains in place.
It matches my needs perfectly: torrent downloads, data replication, iSCSI storage for virtual machines.
The DSM 5 software provides real result added value to this NAS: DSM is very ergonomic, sort of mini web operating system, the package manager can extend the functionality of the NAS. Indeed, I installed a mail server, a MySQL database to store my XBMC database (which is synchronized between all my devices), php / phpmyadmin for hosting etc ...
Community repositories allow you to add more services: movie downloads or automated series etc ... In tinkering can get to do quite a lot of advanced things planned tasks, vpn, script execution ...
Moreover Synology is relatively quick to react on fixes flaws of its devices, I receive an email as soon as an update is available by registering at Mycenter synology service which is free. It is possible to associate a domain name dyamique synology.me to access its NAS from outside (like No-IP or DynDNS but free!)
Side performance, I do not have specific measures, but I copy to ~ 100MB / s with link aggregation gigabyte while rotating 3 virtual machines via the iSCSI LUN.
To conclude:
The pros:
- Good quality product
- 4 disk locations
- Link Aggregation (double debits via network 2 ports with a compatible router)
- DSM, ergonomics and ease of use
- The free services of Synology
The -:
- The price: a NAS says "homemade" will be cheaper to superior performance, Synology is a bit Apple NAS
- All plastic!
I advise all Synology NAS anyway, would not that for which DSM has no equivalent on the market.
Thank you for reading!
