Unlike the DS218+, the DS620slim has two Gigabit LAN ports, and you can link them up to have a 2Gbps connection.

This Synology thing is meant to be a simple and reasonably inexpensive consumer device that leverages NAS storage protocol.The carriers have locks, to prevent people from accidentally pulling out a drive, but I don't use them. Synolohgy NAS units are not complicated, cumbersome, nor expensive, for the peace-of-mind they can provide, and vast storage. For our testing, we configured the Synology DiskStation in RAID6 using six Seagate IronWolf 110 SSDs.

Finance is only available to permanent UK residents aged 18+, subject to status, terms and conditions apply. Gmon - your DAS array wouldn't be accessible at all over the internet, or limited to the same uplink speed of your home connection. The LAN ports of the DS620slim are 1 Gbps, which means that the speeds will be at a maximum of 125 MB per second, unless you use the Link Aggregation option, which I didn’t do during my test. Once all of the storage devices have been installed, all you have to do is to connect the DS620slim to the network and a power outlet, and then boot it up.Despite its large focus on lower energy consumption and a smaller footprint on your physical and network environment, I always approve of an external power brick. user interface on your browser or a mobile phone app (DS Finder), and allows you to increase or decrease the RPM as needed. Our enterprise shared storage and hard drive benchmark process preconditions each drive into steady-state with the same workload the device will be tested with under a heavy load of 16 threads with an outstanding queue of 16 per thread, and then tested in set intervals in multiple thread/queue depth profiles to show performance under light and heavy usage.

In our mixed workload profiles, the DS620slim continued its good performance under iSCSI, posting a throughput range of 6169 IOPS through 11,393 IOPS (vs.

You’ll have to plan ahead, though, as to what configuration and which storage devices you intend to use, since this will bear influence on how the system as a whole will be configured. You should note in this review that the DS620slim (unlike the DS419slim for example) is not and will never be compatible with 12 V drives (only 5 V). Likewise, the larger 6 bay case compared with all the 4 bay SLIM series before it increases the noise level of the DS620slim whilst in full use to 20. It’s all easily done via the storage management options in DSM, and you can change it continuously, if you so desire.