Reviews - Synology DiskStation DS411+ NAS review

[HEXUS]

Synology's latest four-bay storage solution put to the test.

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[spoon_]

What's the point of comparing 4 bay NAS to 7 bay with Core2Duo CPU and 4GB of RAM?

Nevertheless this unit struggles a bit... £510 can be spend easily on self-build machine.

[Tarinder]

The point is to give you some idea of comparative performance.

[Jay]

man, its ugly as well!

[cjs150]

I am looking to buy a 4 bay NAS to run as RAID 5 for home (I am paranoid about losing date particularly phots)

I have a simple question. In terms of HD playback what sort of speed should I be looking for say to handle 2 members of family both playing an HD video stored on the NAS?

[Jay]

I am looking to buy a 4 bay NAS to run as RAID 5 for home (I am paranoid about losing date particularly phots)

I have a simple question. In terms of HD playback what sort of speed should I be looking for say to handle 2 members of family both playing an HD video stored on the NAS?

anything like this or even a decent server will be able to stream multi 1080P content. Sadly my WHS can't for some reason.

[Odc]

I have a DS207 (2 bay) and it streams 1080p with ease. It's a few years old now so you should be fine with most new NAS devices so long as they aren't dirt cheap!

[FatalSaviour]

man, its ugly as well!

Seconded - tbh, the only reason I was only going to the forum entry on this was to say just how fugly it looked!
Granted, for SMB use, that's hardly a major consideration, but they seem to have taken a major step backward in aesthetics here!