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Synology's DiskStation DS1812+ ($1,000 street) is an eight-bay NAS box with capacity up to a plentiful 32TB (with the Synology expansion bay, it scales up to 18 drives and 72TB). But it's not just about size: the DiskStation DS1812+ has the fastest W...
Excellent DSM 4.0 UI. Great feature set. Excellent Write speed. Very good on Reads. Fantastic drive management and recovery options. High storage capacity.
May be considered pricey. Only ships with 1GB RAM...
With support for up to 32TB of storage (and beyond with an expansion unit), great performance, a winning UI, and excellent data protection the Synology DiskStation DS1812+ is a near-perfect NAS, though it may be pricey for some...
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At this time Enterprise Synthetic Workload Analysis includes six profiles, three of which are mixed, that attempt to reflect real-world activity. These were picked to have some similarity with our past benchmarks, as well as a common ground for compari...
As with other Synology units we've reviewed, configuration and setup of the DS1812+ was easy, swapping between our various configurations for testing required little effort. The DSM software continues to be the most comprehensive around in the NAS spa...
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A number of Intel Atom D27xx-based NAS systems have been evaluated in our labs, even though we formally reviewed only one earlier this year, the LaCie 5big NAS Pro . The Thecus N4800 has made its appearance in a some benchmarks presented in our SMB / SOHO...
Due to the nature of the CPU, RAID expansion / rebuild takes progressively longer as the number of disks increase. Coming to the business end of the review, the Synology DS1812+ has plenty of positives (applicable to other Synology units that I have evalu...
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In the fall of 2012 we started looking at the Synology DS1812+ 8-bay NAS. Most reviews of these types of systems are put together in a matter of days or weeks. We took a different route, publishing parts of the review before publishing the entire review...
Very easy to use, Stable, Fast, Has been extremely reliable...
Fans could be slightly quieter, Not loud, but could be slightly quieter...
Overall, we have had quite a few users provide feedback on their Synology experience and they have been positive thus far. Many users may at first think that they can build their own unit cheaper. To some extent this is true. Finding a similar case is not...
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Be it small businesses or avid prosumers, storage is one place where less is never going to be more. Understanding this, Synology's DS1812+ has not four, five or six but eight hard drive bays. With 3TB drives entering affordability, that's 24TB in one box...
Overall, the DS1812+ is a solid eight bay NAS device which through its Disk Station Manger software, is both easy and enjoyable to use. Coupled with the effortlessness that users can add custom packages to the DS1812+ to tailor it to their needs, Synology...
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Recently Synology sent their DS1812+ unit for a thorough review. We will be breaking this piece into several parts. This one will cover the initial unboxing as well as the exterior of the unit. Unless you open up the case, this review will cover what you...
Of course, the next question is what is inside that good looking case. Next week, we will have a tear-down and show off the hardware of the Synology DS1812+ before delving into the management software and performance of the unit. Since writing and publish...
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