![]() Joins NT Domain / Active Directories for account information.FTP/SFTP with upload / download bandwidth control and connection limit.Online RAID expansion and RAID level migration.SMB/CIFS, HTTP/HTTPS, NFS, AFP, WebDAV file access.Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR) (Allows mixing drive sizes).Individual drive, JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 with hot spare for RAID 5 volumes, EXT4 filesystem.I’m going to attempt to summarize many of the key features below. The DSM 4.0-2228 build I used for testing has a pretty extensive feature list, which is described in Synology’s DSM Highlight pages. ![]() DSM is probably the most graphically ambitious of the OSes from QNAP and Thecus, using a multi-windowed interface illustrated in the screenshot below. The 1512+ supports all the features in Synology’s DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.0 OS. Fan noise, in the default "Quiet" mode (the other two modes are "Cool" and "Low-Power") was audible along with some drive noise in my home office environment. Power consumption measured 71 W with five WD RE4 2 TB 7200 RPM (WD2003FYYS) drives that Synology supplied spun up and 34 W when the programmable drive spindown kicked in. Table 1 puts all of this info in one place, along with a few other parts I haven’t mentioned. Two USB 3.0 ports are provided via an NEC D720200AF USB 3.0 controller The internal SATA ports come from the Intel Southbridge, as do USB 2.0 ports. A Silicon Image SiI3132 PCI Express to 2-Port Serial ATA II Host Controller services the two eSATA ports. The two Gigabit Ethernet ports are supplied by a pair of Intel WG82574L controllers that can be set to aggregation, failover and separate LAN modes. There is another small flash device on the other side of the board, I’m guessing maybe 128 MB.įigure 2: Synology DS1512+ DiskStation board That’s a 1 GB flash Disk-on-Memory (DOM) module at the upper right. I didn’t remove the heatsinks and couldn’t find any references to the companion part in the system boot messages. A dual-core Intel D2700 Atom is under one of those heatsinks and an unnamed Southbridge / companion chip is under the other. ![]() Speaking of the board, a shot of its top is below. If one fan fails, the other will speed up to compensate until the failed fan is replaced. Synology wrote to point out its new "fan failover" feature. Expanding memory to a total of 3 GB is easy, too, via an empty SoDIMM socket that you don’t have to remove the board to get at. ![]() Once you get inside, the power supply and main board are easily removable. The two fans are mounted on plates so that they can be swapped out without having to open the cabinet. Synology made the DS1512+ easy to service. So you can attach USB printers and drives to your heart’s content. The new hardware platform now includes two USB 3.0 ports and four USB 2.0 ports. In addition to DX510 expansion cabinets, the two rear eSATA ports support one eSATA drive each. The two 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports on the rear do not have built-in link/status LEDs, either. You’ll have to get any information you want via the front panel LEDs or logging into the web-based admin. Note that there is no VGA port to support an attached console, nor is there an LCD status panel. The callout view below provides the rundown on ports, indicators and switches.įigure 1: Synology DS1512+ Front and Rear Panels The hot-swappable design has the drives loading from the front with individually-lockable (via hex-key) trays that accept both 2.5 and 3.5" SATA drives. Drive trays and the internal slides that accept them are also plastic, to dampen drive vibration noise. The chassis and cover are metal, with a plastic front bezel. The DS1512+ has a no-nonsense look with the same styling as the DS1511+ it replaces. Both the 1512+ and 1812+ run on dual-core 2.13 GHz Intel "Cedar Trail" Atom D2700 CPUs with 1 GB of DDR3 RAM, expandable to 3 GB, while the older DS712+ has a single-core D425 Atom. But hardware-wise, you should think of it as a step down from the eight-bay DS1812+ announced earlier this year. The model I’m looking at today is the five-bay-expandable-to-fifteen DS1512+.Ĭapacity-wise, the DS1512+ is the next step up from the two bay DS712+ I looked at last fall. Synology must be having good success with its expandable-NAS concept, because they keep on introducing new ones. Typical Price: $1125 Buy From Amazon Overview Updated 7 June 2012: Added fan failover feature info Expandable to fifteen bays total with two DX510 cabinets.Synology Disk Station (DS1512+) Įxpandable five bay, high-performance BYOD SATA NAS with many features based on a dual-core Intel Atom D2700 processor.
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