Synology DiskStation DS1520+

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You can get away with a single drive and later just add more. In fact, I'll start with two 4TB HDDs; then, I will add a third one. I'll be using only these 3 HDDs, and shortly, when I get some extra budget, I'll populate the whole (five) bays. It may not come as a huge surprise, but if you need to choose between the Synology DS1520+ and the Synology DS920+, definitely buy the Synology DS1520+ NAS, if you can afford that higher price tag. The Synology DS920+ is definitely a good solution and is still one of the best Diskstation as they have produced for many years, but there is just no avoiding the simple fact that the Synology DS1520+, even in its default release, provides more in every single way than the DS920+ does and if you think you are going to upgrade one or more parts of the Synology NAS system in its lifetime whilst you use it for home or business, it makes more sense to invest on day one and buy the Synology DS1520+ NAS. Storage: 5 x 3.5" or 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD (drives not included), 2 x M.2 2280 NVMe SSD (drives not included) I would like to get prompt wherever I am in, that being in Spain or Thailand, or elsewhere whenever I get a prompt from my NAS’s?

The external performance when comparing the brand new Synology DS1520+ vs that of the fractionally older Synology DS920+ is probably one of the largest areas of disparity between both NAS systems. Although the additional 4GB of memory will play its part, the fact that the DS1520+ arrives with 4x 1GbE LAN ports by default, compared with the 2x 1GbE featured on the DS920+ largely makes this an open shut case. Great video best one I have seen so far, I didn’t know which NAS to choose but after watching your video I’m going with the 1520+ . You also mentioned that I could start with one drive and then add more drives later thanks for mentioning that, by being able to add more drives later I can fit the 1520 into my budget and get a bigger drive. Keep up the good work 🙂 It is also worth noting that the E10M20-T1 card that upgraded the DS1517+ to 10GbE also gave it two NVMe slots, matching the DS1520+. Also located on the base of the Synology DS1520+ we find the two NVMe SSD bays, each of which allows you to install a PCIe-based SSD for caching support of the large hard drive RAID array with solid-state flash caching. This is a feature that Synology has seemingly introduced into every single one of the 2020/2021 PLUS series NAS hardware portfolio and one that allows users to vastly improve internal performance. Frequently of benefit to accessing large databases of data that contain numerous smaller files, large scale thumbnail generation, shared folder directories and more frequently accessed repositories of data.Still using my ds918+ with 16gb. CPU a bit slow and only use older VMs on it, but it works, the memory is plenty for everything I need the nas to do with plex and others services I run on it and I also have the expansion bay runn with a total of 9 drives.

The asking price and core count alone piqued our interest when we first heard about it… as not that long ago a low TDP, high core count NAS appliance that comes standard with 8GB of RAM would have gone for much, much more than that. More intriguing is the bay count. Five bay models are a personal favorite of ours as they actually offer a high enough drive count to make Raid 6 a viable solution. Mix in the fact that once you go above 4-bays they almost invariable double the fan count from one to two while still not increasing the asking price all that much and 5-bays are, in our opinion, a great introduction to the world of NAS appliances. I use Firefox and only have one M.2 slot filled and the 4 HDDs bays are full. Testing what I could zooming out made the empty M.2 disappear. It did not make the icon show under the other one as shown by you.. The hardware on offer with the DS1520+ makes it an outstanding choice as a Plex media server. It can transcode several 4K files at once, and eSATA extensibility means you won't have to worry about running out of storage.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. Along with a degree of ventilation located around the main hard drive bay area, the Synology DS1520+ also features ventilation on either side of the plastic chassis via a mesh ventilated logo. This has always been one of those little things that Synology features on each of their NAS chassis designs and is a subtle means to promote passive ventilation in conjunction with the twin active cooling fans on the rear. While my existing 920+ is still in service, I got tired of waiting for synology to include 10gb standard in the pro series nas’s and build my own for less then a new 920+ My suggestion is if you have the knowledge or desire make your own Nas.. Perhaps Synology will catch up in a few years. Where we noticed this the most was that the web interface to the DSM was very responsive even when the box was being worked hard by connected systems. It has more than enough resources to cope with plenty of users and being administered simultaneously.

Having more processing power and NVMe caching is good, but if you can’t effectively distribute that performance to the connected users, it is of limited value. I personally have the DS 1520+. You sir have made the comparison between 1520+ and 1522+ in a previous video. This The Synology DS720+ NAS Drive Review – https://nascompares.com/2020/06/18/synology-ds720-nas-drive-hardware-reviewCurious ???? if I took 2 HDD’s (SHR – striped) from my ageing DS215j and transplanted them into a multi-bay Synology would they need reformatted or could the SHR continue to be expanded / rebuilt without data loss ?… ???? In the front of the NAS, you get five hot-swappable bays to palace your drives. Drives in these bays can each have a 3.5-inch SATA (like the IronWolf I am going to install), a 2.5-inch SATA drive, or 2.5-inch SSD. The drive bays can be prevented from being pulled out accidentally; you can secure them with the key included. The DS1520+ also features an additional USB port for further connection of external storage, as well as a small number of supported 3rd Party USB peripherals. The DS1520+ does not arrive with a visual Port (HDMI, VGA, DisplayPort, etc), so a Keyboard, Video Mouse (KVM) setup is impossible here. But there are several wireless dongles supported by the device, as well as UPS failover devices and network monitoring tools. Also, many of you may already be aware are, but it never hurts to remind people, you cannot use these USB port to directly connect to the NAS system. Devices that utilise these USB Type-A ports will be seen as client devices to the NAS host system and therefore do not work utilising USB protocol in the same way a direct-attached storage (DAS) system might. Of course, you will have to either require a managed network switch or have a system that can leverage the advantages of link aggregation/port trunking in the first place, but still, nevertheless, the DS1520+ provides you with a better overall available bandwidth early doors and even if all other elements of these devices were equal, you cannot beat more network interfaces on a NAS. Once again, you pay a premium, but you are getting something for your money. As well as the performance benefits internally mentioned previously would also result in better external performance in the DS1520+ (that’s to a larger RAID array and more memory) over those LAG’d gigabit ports. Though, it is still a shame that we are still talking about 1Gbe on NAS systems from Synology in their 2020+ series. To partly balance what appears to be a retrograde step, two NVMe slots have been added to provide high speed caching of the drives.