Synology DS1823XS+ 8 BAY 8GB DDR4

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Different to SSD a HDD usually does not fail in discrete mode [ok/instantly faulty] but slowly degrades which agives you a window of opportunity. Overall, the DS1823xs+ packaging and presentation is still very good and exactly what I would have expected from the Synology solution. eSATA provides 6Gb/s (600MB/s cap) which is reasonable for a 5-bay expansion, though the support of the DX1222 12-Bay 2Gb/s HD miniSAS (as found in the DS3622xs+) would have been nice. If you look at data loads of 300tb per year with an MTBF of 1,000,000 hours, the raid with 8 drives will last 8x longer. Synology Central Management System (CMS) – Synology CMS allows you to manage multiple Synology NAS servers quickly and conveniently from a single location.

In 2004 I had 9 Seagate hard drives fail in a 2 week period and they were sequential serial numbers. If you don’t put the nas in a place where noise isn’t a problem, use SSD if you use your nas constantly or time it so the drives sleep during the day.I ran PLEX on both and initially it felt like the 920+ was slower and stuttered more with larger files, however now there doesnt seem to be much of a difference.

I would be happy with a DS1821+ and a 10GBe network card, but I would prefer a DS1823+ if there will be one… It’s already end of March 2023.However, fair play to Synology, their range of cards has expanded hugely in the last 2-3 years and you have the option of 1-2 Port 10GbE cards, as well as dual port 25Gb FC cards too. Synology has been increasing the range of solutions in its portfolio that support ECC memory and as this is an XS class NAS, it was largely inevitable that it would have this high-data-integrity long-term protecting memory in place! We take hourly backups of 5-8 VM on 2 physical server (PDC, SQL Server, Print Servers, File Servers,…) and can boot them on the 1823xs+ without problems. If your chosen NAS enclosure allows for more disks than you are currently using then less but bigger might also be a good option as it will allow you to grow the storage capacity over time.

Synology really has devalued their brand by releasing NAS systems that lock out or give the impression that standard NAS drives from the major drive manufacturers are not compatible. Needless to say, the Synology DS1823xs+ NAS will support the bulk of DSM applications, features and services.

All trademarks are acknowledged and belong to their respective owners, images and data are for illustration purposes only and may not reflect a true likeness of the product in question. I hope my 920+ doesn’t ‘’Die Hard’ because I need to keep it as a back up for my main NAS which will be a faster cpu equivalent in the next 24 months. I counted over 14 items you were not so happy with or did not understand why Synology did it and i agree with all of them. If you use/used 3rd party drives from Seagate/WD/Toshiba/etc, the system would flag these as ‘unverified’ with a warning and this could potentially undermine your support from Synology down the line (as you are using the system in an unsupported configuration outside of how Synology presented/verified the system).

This is important because I would not have bought a Synology if I had known that they are only compatible with their own disks! And you are still passionate like day one about all things NAS and beyond, how is this even possible? This leads to the quest of heat generation and the inevitable noise that the internal cooling systems make to stay on top of this. Your right to do such a vid to point this stuff out, but you could of shown the energy differences also.Additionally, the DS1823xs+ isn’t even the first Synology NAS to arrive with support of this CPU – with the 2022 released FS2500 being the first to feature it. Not a fan of proprietary products but if it help the equipment to Die Hard then it might be worth it.