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Synology DiskStation DS1520+

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One can only conclude that while developing the DS1520+, the bean-counters at Synology decided that while some improvements were needed, but these needed to be countered by taking some very useful functionality away, disappointingly. Overall you have a pretty standard range of kits here and, although not exactly mind-blowing, still gives you plenty to get you going on day one. Now let’s talk about that oh so familiar Synology design. Synology DS1520+ NAS Review – Design

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+.In short, the Synology DS1520+ is the better choice in storage capacity both on day 1 and day 1000.

Synology Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) – An intuitive hypervisor that supports Windows, Linux, and Virtual DSM virtual machines. Its powerful disaster recovery tools help users achieve maximum service uptime. Synology Drive – Host your own private cloud behind the safety of your NAS with 100% data ownership and no subscription fees.

Business NAS solution with expansion in mind

Synology Drive (Alternative to DropBox/Google Drive with 1-point access to all file types for Mobile and Desktop, as well as intelligent localized sync) A full software review of the DSM 6.2 platform on the DS1520+ NAS is currently in process and I hope to have this to you here on the blog very soon or on the YouTube channel in due course. Stay tuned. However, you need to concentrate on more than the price tag # itself, giving serious consideration to value and what you are actually getting for your money. Both the DS1520+ and the DS920+ are great examples of Synology NAS systems, but it is not much of a secret that you get significantly more hardware, both inside and out, in the respective base models of each NAS when buying the DS1520+. Although both devices have the same CPU and feature those NVMe bays for improving performance, after that there is a wide degree of difference between them, with many key areas of hardware architecture featuring the DS1520+ having twice the resources than the DS920+. For example, the DS920+ has 4GB of memory and the DS1520+ has 8GB. the DS920+ has two 1Gbe LAN ports and the DS1520+ has 4 LAN ports. The DS920+ has an eSATA expandability via a single port to add 5 drives (using that DX517 expansion), whereas the DS1520+ has two ports and can, therefore, add an additional 10 drives. Ultimately you cannot just look at at the price tag, you need to look at what you get for your money I personally believe that the Synology DS1520+ NAS provides better value than that of the DS920+ both in the short and long term.

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