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  • JimmaDaRustla - Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - link

    Wondering why no USB 3.0 on the front?
  • Flunk - Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - link

    The Baytrail platform only supports 2 USB 3.0 ports.
  • DanNeely - Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - link

    Probably to save costs on a second controller chip. Rangeley doesn't have native USB3 support. The use of 3GB sata is also due to Intel limitations; the chip only has 2 6GB sata ports. While I can understand the decision to only use USB2 to keep costs down (arguably the enterprise market should be backing up over eithernet not USB); gimping most of the sata ports to 3GB seems odd; especially since it's capable of running ethernet in up to a 4x2.5GB mode meaning cases where not all the disks were being accessed equally at once could bottleneck on the disk IO.

    http://ark.intel.com/products/77983/Intel-Atom-Pro...
  • edward1987 - Monday, February 22, 2016 - link

    You will need 216 model if you want usb3
    http://www.span.com/product/Synology-4-Bay-DiskSta...
  • DanNeely - Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - link

    What exactly are the virtualization certs for? Just indicating that it will play nicely with VMs running elsewhere and accessing it's storage via iSCSI, or native VM support similar to QNAP's most recent high end SOHO model?
  • ganeshts - Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - link

    One aspect is the 'playing nicely' factor.

    The other is acceleration for certain tasks. For example, VAAI allows LUN cloning / snapshotting to be done within the NAS without the necessity for the data to travel over the network links.
  • AppleCrappleHater2 - Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - link

    Now that I am having issues with my DS411j, I find that Synology is not a good company to be stuck with when a problem develops.

    I have reported my problem using the submission form, and I have posted it on the Forum. Not a single peep from either direction. I have no idea how long it will be before - even if - I get a response. On the Forum, my post has already scrolled way out of view, so nobody will probably ever see it. I called the office number (which the web site says is good for 9-5 PST) only to be told that the office shuts at 4pm. I'm pretty fed up.

    The user manual is USELESS. The "Troubleshooting" section essentially says "Go to our web site (where you won't find a troubleshooting section either)". Now I'm stuck here with several terabyes of important data, and I have NO CLUE when - or even if - I am ever going to see it again.

    Do you see that thing over there? The Synology Disk Station DS1813+? It’s crap.
    It’s not the usual hardware RAID problems that make it so crappy.
    Yes, it’s slow. Painfully slow.
    Yes, it has a weird Linux kernel that, somehow, manages to do put all NFS clients into
    df: `/mirror': Permission denied
    if you change any export permissions. Any. Not even on the volume in question. Or
    df: `/mirror': Stale file handle
    if you reboot it. How have they even managed to do that?
    No, it’s not that.
    It’s that if one of the disks break (as they are wont to do, which is why we have the “R” and “I” in “RAID”), which usually happens at 2am, the thing starts beeping.
    Loudly.
    Beep. Beep. Beep.
    And there’s no way to turn the beeping off. Other than switching the entire thing off. So you have a redundant disk system, but if one of the disks break, it starts beeping so loud that it’ll wake all the neighbors, so you just have to switch it off until you can find a new disk to replace the old one.
    So it’s redundant, but you can’t use it. Ingenious.
    The only thing I can recommend about the Synology DS1813+ is that it’s less unstable than any of the other commodity hardware RAID devices I’ve used. Which means that as soon as 8TB disks become available, I’m going to just make a soft RAID device and escape the horrible clutches of hardware RAID makers.

    I have until now been telling people that Synology seems to be a good product. No more. I will no longer be recommending Synology. In fact I shall be recommending people to AVOID Synology. As of hitting the SUBMIT button, I'll be busy looking for an alternative product to buy.
  • icrf - Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - link

    I didn't know any Synology NAS products used hardware RAID. I have a DS411j and it is most definitely software RAID. I could pull the drives out, put it in any random computer, boot up some USB live linux distro, and it would find the array and I'd have access to all my data. It's what makes me feel comfortable using it. Hardware RAID scares me because if the RAID controller dies, you need another one that's compatible to see your data again. Software RAID just needs any generic computer that can read the disks. Plus, it's not like RAID5 parity is so complicated any random ARM SoC can't handle it.
  • SlackMasterDoug - Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - link

    Turning off the beep is as easy as going into your control panel -> Hardware & Power, then hitting beep off. Have you checked their Wiki at all? Lots of great info there.
  • WithoutWeakness - Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - link

    This is a copy and paste from a few different user posts and complains about two separate products. It seems to be all that the person running this account does - find complains about a product or company and copy/paste them into the comments section of semi-relevant Anandtech articles. Can this account be deleted or banned from posting on articles?

    The parts of this post were copy and pasted from these sources:
    Forum post from April 2012: https://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=4&a...
    Blog post from April 2011: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2011/04/04/synology-ds...
  • TruthLoader - Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - link

    He implored the old man to speak, but, coming closer to him and starring into his face, he saw the stains of death upon mouth and eyes and a nest of mice in the tangle oft he frozen beard.

    It was weak to fly, but he flew. Andi t was a weakness oft he blood to be invisible, but he was invisible. He reasoned and dreamed unreasonably at the same time, knowing his weakness and the lunacy of flying but having no strength to conquer it. He flew like a bird over fields, but soon the bird’s body vanished, and he was a flying voice.
  • saliti - Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - link

    I bet you copied this wall of text from some user review :D
    Why don't Anandtech moderators block trolls like this?
  • Skolde - Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - link

    He did - from some post back in 2011. Pretty funny, if not a bit sad. Not going to bother linking it.
  • creed3020 - Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - link

    I am glad to see Synology finally catch up to the year 2014 and get one of these new Intel SoC's into a NAS. I'm personally waiting for a two bay equivalent of this before I get really excited as my DS212j is humming along nicely at the moment but one thing my ownership experience has taught me is that throwing some more CPU at the problems here will greatly improve user experience and performance.

    Memory allotment finally catches up too. The 2GB here is a great step forward over previous Syno NASes, this unit would have typically been stuck with 512MB or 1GB in the not too distant past.
  • Dunkurs1987 - Monday, February 15, 2016 - link

    If you are bit limited with budget, maybe ds416j can do the job saving £100
    http://www.span.com/compare/DS416J-vs-DS416/53265-...

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