Synology DS415+: The NAS to 4 disks for the small and medium enterprises

A NAS that beats the heart of quad-core Intel Atom with 4 3.5-inch drive, with management software is intuitive and usable by anyone who is not an expert. The need for data storage and backup network in a small and medium business can often be managed by the integration in the network infrastructure, a NAS with an appropriate number of hard drives.

Thanks to the availability of models from 6 Terabytes of capacity are not difficult to reach very high maximum capacities also using NAS with 4 drawers, reducing clutter and reducing the number of records potentially subject to failures than 6 or 8 bay models.

Synology DS415+ is a product intended for use from within its own network infrastructure of a small-medium company, one of many in our circuit of national production, strong technical support for encryption of data with which it is all the more secure their rescue and protection from unauthorized access.

Thanks AES-NI engine to provide additional protection of data occurs without obvious impact on speed performance: Synology claims data of 228 MB / s and 233 MB / s for sequential read and write values ​​that go down to 232 MB / s and 206 MB / s will be enabled when the transfer encrypted files.

AES 256-bit encryption operates at the level of file sharing, in order to prevent attempts to gain unauthorized access to files. A shared folder that is encrypted cannot  be used by users who are without the encryption key even when the folder is moved from the NAS to your device. It can also enable a two-step verification, which enables the sending of a second mobile device access key 6 digit used only once so as to further increase the safety of what is encrypted.

The target of the small and medium enterprises in Synology DS415+ is stressed by various certification for virtualization environments such as VMware, Citrix and Microsoft Hyper-V. The traditional backup of the data contained in the various PCs in your network can be managed backup service for Windows or Time Machine using an Apple Mac. Alongside these traditional forms, you can back up data and applications Synology DS415+ to another Synology DiskStation, to a rsync server, an external drive connected via USB or eSATA, or even using a cloud storage service.

The technology Synology High Availability also used to connect a network two NAD DS415 identical so that one operates as master, leaving the second function of replication that intervenes to operate when the primary NAS should have a malfunction of some kind.

The technical features of the Synology DS415+ 4 drawers to provide hard drive 3 1/2 inches and are compatible with mechanical 2-inch and 1/2 and of course with the same form factor SSD, for a maximum raw capacity of 24 Terabytes obtained using 4 6 TB each hard drive without any kind of Raid configuration. Synology, at this address, provides a guide to the hard disk compatible with their NAS depending on the number of bay; DS 415 models from 6 TB certificates are currently that Western Digital WD60EFRX – 68MYMN1 and Seagate  ST6000NM0024 – 1HT17Z.

The methods available are those Raid 0, 1.5, 6 and 10 depending on the preferences of storage space, speed performance and data redundancy the user chooses. All these features are the ability to use configurations JBOD (just a bunch of disks) and the Synology Hybrid Raid, a management system that enables Synology Disk owner to balance capacity and data redundancy that is recommended by the company to those users who do not know, or do not want to delve into the different modes of configuration of a wild chain raid.

The principle of operation of Synology Hybrid Raid also allows to better manage   all the capacity available when they are installed in the NAS disks of different capacity, while in a chain Raid space on a hard disk that exceeds the size of the hard disk, more small  in the chain remains unused.

Heart of this NAS is an Intel Atom processor with quad-core architecture, characterized by a clock frequency of 2.4 GHz and 2 Gbytes of memory DDR3. The two Gigabit NICs on the rear panel, type failover and link aggregation feature support to operate in parallel, there are also two USB 3.0 connections and a USB 2.0 (the latter in the front panel), while the connection of an external hard drive which option is also an eSATA connector.

The construction is similar to that of other Synology NAS of similar positioning on the market: the drawers are covered by a plastic shell inserted by pressure, such as not requiring any type of tool to be extracted from the chassis. The rear sees the two fans next to the doors of extraction of hot air, with a diameter of 92 mm each and are characterized by a very low noise operation.

A design of this type simplifies the installation and configuration, but does not provide any kind of protection from the extraction of one of the disks from non-authorized personnel. If in a domestic environment, this is not usually a problem is a different matter in a business setting, where a product of this type is best kept in a rack cabinet to the wall.

The operating system Disk Station Synology DS415+  is the operational heart of, like the rest of what has been proposed by other NAS Taiwanese company. In addition to traditional management functionality typical of a NAS device Disk Station allows to download a series of App, with which DS415 to provide a series of specific functionality.

This type of approach is common to the various companies in the field of the NAS, as the individual App are compatible only between devices of the same manufacturer operating system, and is a very practical way to enrich the functionality of its NAS beyond that traditional backup.

A no-frills product that bay to the substance, capable thanks to 4 small drawers to meet the storage needs of most small and medium-sized companies and that thanks to the rich array of ancillary App can be adapted with flexibility in usage scenarios that go beyond backup and file sharing.