Synology DS1515: The NAS to 5 hard drives for business workgroups
With 5 drawers for hard drives up to 8 TB capacity Synology DS1515 combines good expandability in size, proving to be an interesting storage option for both the Corporate Workgroup as for sophisticated consumers.
It happens to analyze frequencies of these pages new NAS solutions in the market; This is a particularly dynamic sector, in which various proposals for both professional users as to the domestic market entrants. Synology is one of the brands present, thanks to a range that goes from the simplest systems NAS up to proposals aimed at small and medium-sized companies also in form factor Rack.
Synology DS1515 is one of the most-recent proposals of Taiwan: it is a NAS that can accommodate 5 hard drives 3-inch and 1.2, which combines overall dimensions contained in the technical characteristics of note. The hard drive, configurable up to 5 for a total capacity of 40 TB in Raid 0 or JBOD using a pack of 5 from 8 TB hard disk, can be combined with an SSD that operates as a memory cache for faster access to the data.
This will combine the two technologies, the SSD and that of magnetic hard drives, taking advantage of their properties: speed and latency to access the first, the second high capacity. The use of a SSD is an alternative to that of a hard disk reduces the overall capacity.
Synology DS1515 has integrated 4 network connector’s Gigabit Lan; They can operate in mode Link Aggregation, by operating in parallel on the same network so as to ensure a more sustained data throughput. The presence of 4 network connectors also allows you to ensure continuity of service when a malfunction occurs in one of the network connections.
It is declared in a given read, less than 400 Mbytes per second, with about 422 Mbytes per second in writing. Leveraging the unit hardware encryption built into SoC that governs this NAS, a model Annapurna Labs Alpine AL-314 architecture quad core 1.4 GHz clock speed performances are obtained which reastano always very high: approximately 300 Mbytes per second reading and 150 Mbytes per second in writing.
Synology DS1515 also provides expansion capabilities: you can connect up to two external modules DX513, with which expand to 10 more hard disk storage capacity overall data coming to a theoretical maximum of 120 Terabytes. Do not miss the opportunity to install two NAS DS1515 mirrored each other, so that when operating the NAS secondary intervene instead of replacing the main operations and taking advantage of the automated data synchronization.
From the software side, we find DS1515 in all the standard elements in the proposals of Synology NAS. The heart is DiskStation Manager, the proprietary operating system based on Linux developed Taiwanese company that governs the operation of the NAS and the accessibility of all the advanced features.
Accessible via an intuitive web interface, DiskStation Manager allows you to configure the hard disks in Raid favorite chain (from Raid 0 to Raid 10, through the Raid 5 and Raid 6). Synology NAS using more unity in the same environment, such as the business, it is possible for the centralized management by the system administrator: check the cause of malfunctions is in this way to be as easy and simple.
Synology DS1515 is indicated for business workgroups that need a dedicated storage space that can provide valuable overall performance, for which we do not want to preclude future expansion or margins the possibility to implement full redundancy with identical unit that operates in parallel. It ‘also suitable for home users the most advanced, looking for a storage space while maintaining high overall compact size.
