Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. So, this will stand very well in between the other plus series devices in the Synology portfolio and when DSM 7.0 lands at the end of the year (fingers crossed) this will be an excellent hardware architecture to make the most of it.

When you have the level of market dominance that Synology has in small business NAS, and you ignore how the market is moving, then trouble is undoubtedly on the horizon. Fair warning, You’re going to hear me use the words ‘ brand design‘ quite a lot in this review, because Synology is very conscious of its own aesthetic priorities (both inside and out) with regard to its hardware portfolio. Modelling themselves very much in the profile of Apple, they like to present their solutions as clean, simple and powerfully capable, providing less tech enthusiastic users with a fully-featured and reliable solution. But its too late now. The damage is done. People associate the funnel image with the filter action in software just like they associate the piece of paper with a folded corner for “new file”.While my existing 920+ is still in service, I got tired of waiting for synology to include 10gb standard in the pro series nas’s and build my own for less then a new 920+ My suggestion is if you have the knowledge or desire make your own Nas.. Perhaps Synology will catch up in a few years.

However, the extent to which you can use all these applications at any single time (both as multiple clients using the same software or multiple applications running in parallel on the same NAS system) is going to be better on the Synology DS1522+ in the grand scheme of things, thanks to that potential 32GB of memory available to scale up down the line. Here is how these two Synology NAS drives compare in volume and features in those 1st party services: It may not come as a huge surprise, but if you need to choose between the Synology DS1520+ and the Synology DS920+, definitely buy the Synology DS1520+ NAS, if you can afford that higher price tag. The Synology DS920+ is definitely a good solution and is still one of the best Diskstation as they have produced for many years, but there is just no avoiding the simple fact that the Synology DS1520+, even in its default release, provides more in every single way than the DS920+ does and if you think you are going to upgrade one or more parts of the Synology NAS system in its lifetime whilst you use it for home or business, it makes more sense to invest on day one and buy the Synology DS1520+ NAS. NASCompares Could you please do a video comparing the new 5-bay DS1522+ with the older 6-bay DS1621+/DS1621xs+ models? I am a home user trying to decide whether to move to a NAS and if so, whether to use a 5-bay or a 6-bay NAS. (I presently have a SANS Digital 5-bay USB RAID in a RAID5 and a Promise Pegasus R6 6-bay Thunderbolt RAID in a RAID6.)

A Shared Folder is an area of storage on the NAS that can be accessed over the network. You need to create a shared folder to allow your devices to interact with your NAS data.

I’m not sure if I miss something but I think you didn’t talked about the disk support. If I understood correctly it’s also a new concern with synology pushing the use of is proprietary disk!?

What the NVMe cache can do is allow user data sidelined briefly to avoid saturating the write buffers of the hard drives, but this is only a deferral that allows the system to have more optimised throughput. The 5-Bay Diskstation releases from Synology have always been one of the most interesting tiers of the brand’s desktop solutions. The reason for this is that all too often this scale of system serves as a bridging point between Prosumer & SOHO systems and the small/medium business hardware in their portfolio. This is demonstrated first in the scale of the available RAID 5/6 storage, but then more so in the scalability and upgradability of the 5-Bay system, allowing two expansions, greater network connectivity and better internal hardware than the more domestic targetted solutions – often with the internal hardware differing considerably between each periodic 2-3yr refresh by the brand. Let’s first look at the internal hardware of these two NAS’ to see how much they differ. The DS1520+ NAS first arrived on the scene with some great hardware advantages over the (then 2 months sooner released) DS920+, arriving with a 4 Core Intel Celeron Processor that featured integrated graphics, 8GB of DDR4 2666Mhz memory and NVMe SSD upgrade slots. In the two years since its release though, Synology clearly decided to make some big changes in the DS1522+ to make it considerably more scalable and general business/file-ops focused. The newer DS1522+ features a dual-core AMD Ryzen embedded R1600 that, although arriving with half the cores of the Celeron in the DS1520+, has a higher CPU frequency and total achievable frequency in turbo/burst when needed. That said, users will be surprised to learn that this CPU also does not feature embedded graphics, so therefore the DS1522+ will be less CPU efficient at handling multimedia or VM deployment than the DS1520+. Synology DiskStation DS1520+ is an ideal network-attached storage solution suitable for small office and IT enthusiasts. Two built-in M.2 SSD slots and Synology SSD Cache technology allow you to boost system I/O and application performance. The scalable storage design of DS1520+ lets you start small and expand storage capacity with Synology DX517 as your data grows. 1.1. NAS Features When I started my multimedia library, our computer was old and slow by today’s standards. So to avoid the “cpu fans of transcoding”, I transcoded the media to be compatible with our devices prior to adding to the library. Where it is much harder to be critical is in respect of the Synology DSM platform, as this is easily the most mature NAS operating system around. At the time of writing the version on our review system was DSM 6.2.3-25426 Update 2, the initial release of DSM for this hardware.

For the DS1520+, pull the drive trays out, then the (two) fastening panels from the tray's sides. Install the drives into the drive tray and insert the fastening panels to secure the drive in place. I am using 3.5-inch HDDs, so that will do for me. But if you are using 2.5-inch HDDs, you need to use the 2.5-inch HDD screws to secure the drives.

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