This is because Synology does not allow SHR support on any system deemed ‘High Performance’ such as the XS, SA or UC series.

in case of business you need IOPs and you do not care about noise because you have a datacenter (for small that it can be), so smaller disks in higher number give you better performance anche noise means Enterprse disks which have higher number of TB/year. Have a fantastic weekend and the written review of the DS1823xs+ NAS will be live on NASCompares later today. NVMe external USB drives arriving affordable to comfortably provide faster external storage for backups, this seems like a bit of a misstep by Synology to ignore. I’ll hope the upgrade to the currently selling DS1821+ comes before the end of the year and with a decent processor. As tools are developed, they are added below (as well as embedded in many, many articles across the site).

However, as this is a Synology XS system, that means that there are two slightly awkward things we need to discuss. I ran PLEX on both and initially it felt like the 920+ was slower and stuttered more with larger files, however now there doesnt seem to be much of a difference. The more drives you have, the more power it is going to draw and the more points of failures there are in your system. The eight bays of storage here, even in more complete RAID configs and Clustered RAID’s will comfortably saturate 1,000MB/s (even with domestic class HDDs) and as good as it is to see an x86 8-Bay from Synology finally roll out with 10GbE, it is perhaps also worth wondering why only 1?

If you are looking for a solid and confident move away from expensive long-term cloud subscription services, away from your defunct Drobo system or simply looking for a Synology NAS that has good hardware inside, outside and with DSM all over it – the DS1823xs+ NAS is a very solid choice indeed! Designed after the merger of Synology Photo Station and Moments, it also includes tailored folder, sharing and categorization features to help photographers manage their photos and share them with clients for feedback or business development. One idea to consider is the difference in power for say 4 big drives (say 14TB each with 1 parity) versus 12 small drives (say 4TB each with 2 parity).

Empower your entire organization with a streamlined ability to access, share, and sync data from anywhere. Stylized in many ways on the ‘Apple’ model of hardware/software banding, the Synology DS1823xs+NAS retail packaging, despite clearly being an enterprise targetted solution, is dripping in branding. I did once have 1tb hdd when it was huge in 2009, backup all my files, then trip on the power cable, making the drive dead, with all the 1tb data I just sorted. When asked about this, Synology has highlighted that reducing the range of supported USB peripherals and the extent of use of these ports stems from security reasons. I was waiting for some really usable solution for virtualization with fast VMM package, powerful processor and memory enough.