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February 2015
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The editors liked
Great overall performance
Minimal effect of encryption on performance
Upgraded RAM and CPU
Wide range of downloadable apps
Quiet
Storage performance is the focus of the DS415and it performs well at this task. The setup process is very easy for first time NAS appliance users and there are enough extras for users to be surprised by all of the functions available.
Very fast network-transfer speeds in all possible configurations
Highly intuitive and easy-to-use operating system (OS) with a lot of features
DSM provides some crucial security options (antivirus application
AES 256-bit encryption
Optional 2-Step log
The editors didn't like
Weaker 8k sequential iSCSI performance than QNAP TS-451
No HDMI or optical audio ports
Memory expansion voids warranty
RAID 5 read a bit slow
Without the bells and whistles offered by some of the competing products in this price range we think the DS415is a bit overpriced.
RAM is not easily upgradeable (however
2 GB will sufficiently cover every possible usage scenario)
Not compatible with the ErP Lot 6 2013 directive
You cannot format an external disk into NTFS (however
Published: 2015-10-19, Author: Chris , review by: tomshardware.com
Storage performance is the focus of the DS415and it performs well at this task. The setup process is very easy for first time NAS appliance users and there are enough extras for users to be surprised by all of the functions available.
Without the bells and whistles offered by some of the competing products in this price range we think the DS415is a bit overpriced.
The DS415+ gives users solid storage performance but lacks many of the new features found on competitor's products. Synology does offer systems with the bells and whistles, this one just has a tighter focus on its storage...
Synology's DS415+ Network Application Server retails for about $600 (Amazon Link). If you want the full product reviewed, you're looking at about $1200. Remember that these aren't targeted to the individual, it is targeted to those entities that need more...
Published: 2015-05-12, Author: stefan , review by: madshrimps.be
Synology has amazed us again with one of their latest NAS server release, the DS415+, which is built around the Intel Rangeley platform which incorporates the Atom C2538 SoC (4C/4T Silvermont Cores @ 2.4GHz) which is paired with 2GB of DDR3 RAM. Thanks to...
Abstract: In late 2014 Synology released another 4-bay NAS server intended to take their award winning designs and innovations to the next level. The new Diskstation DS415+ takes all of the things people have grown to love in terms of the hardware and the DSM inter...
Published: 2015-01-02, Author: Tomas , review by: technogog.com
Reports of security breaches and data theft have become quite frequent in recent weeks. With the well-publicized Sony attack the importance of securing data whether for business or personal use has become ...
Very fast network-transfer speeds in all possible configurations, Highly intuitive and easy-to-use operating system (OS) with a lot of features, DSM provides some crucial security options (antivirus application, AES 256-bit encryption, optional 2-Step log
RAM is not easily upgradeable (however, 2 GB will sufficiently cover every possible usage scenario), Not compatible with the ErP Lot 6 2013 directive, You cannot format an external disk into NTFS (however, external NTFS disks can be read/written properly)
The Synology DiskStation DS415+ retails for $599.99. Very fast network-transfer speeds in all possible configurations Highly intuitive and easy-to-use operating system (OS) with a lot of features DSM provides some crucial security options (antivirus appli...
No HDMI or optical audio ports, Memory expansion voids warranty, RAID 5 read a bit slow
The DS415+ is targeted towards business users, yet has a very competitive price. Currently priced at $600, it's $49 cheaper than the higher ranked QNAP TS-453 Pro, but $70 more expensive than the DS415play. The QNAP sports four Gigabit Ethernet ports and...
Like most of Synology's offerings, the DS415+ is what we would consider a prosumer product. It is sleek, performs very well and caters to both small business and consumers who want above average performance. The DS415+ showed improvements over the DS41...
It is expected that most users would configure the Synology DS415+ in RAID-5 for optimal balance of redundancy and capacity. Hence, we performed all our expansion / rebuild testing as well as power consumption evaluation with the unit configured in RAID-5...
Great overall performance, Minimal effect of encryption on performance, Upgraded RAM and CPU
Weaker 8k sequential iSCSI performance than QNAP TS-451
With upgraded RAM and processor (as well as a slew of other new features), the DS415+ proves to be a good step up from Synology's previous model mainline 4-bay SOHO NAS.Discuss This ReviewSynology HubSynology DS415+ at AmazonGA_googleFillSlot("sr_article_...
