Synology DS2413+ Mini Review

[Butuz]

Just a quick review of this 12 Bay NAS Drive.



Popped the CD in to run the auto setup.



Anything that instructs me to make a cup of tea whilst it's setting itself up automatically gets:

10/10




Butuz

[shaithis]

I must say, as someone who uses a variety of Synology units on a daily basis (and installs at least 1 a month) I really do like them. They are robust and offer a huge array of apps (mostly useful to home users but I have set a 3-man business up using a 2-bay synology as a complete server solution!).

Some of the cheaper units are a tad slow because of the CPU but otherwise, I cannot find anything to complain about with them. Nice purchase

[pp05]

Let us how you find 4.3 DSM.

[SUMMONER]

That is an impressive looking beast.

Anything that instructs me to make a cup of tea whilst it's setting itself up automatically gets: 10/10

Very nice, but I have one (potentially) better. Back in the day (1999 or there about) Caldera OpenLinux let you play Tetris, while it went ahead and installed itself on the computer. Now that is what I call innovation.

[Apex]

I must say, as someone who uses a variety of Synology units on a daily basis (and installs at least 1 a month) I really do like them. They are robust and offer a huge array of apps (mostly useful to home users but I have set a 3-man business up using a 2-bay synology as a complete server solution!).

Some of the cheaper units are a tad slow because of the CPU but otherwise, I cannot find anything to complain about with them. Nice purchase

Well impressed with mine; been a very good investment so far

[herulach]

For a home user, are these worth the premium over say a microserver if you're happy to tinker (I mean the 4 bay ones)? I appreciate power consumption is probably better, but something like the DS413 at 275 doesn't seem to do nearly as much stuff as I could do with an N54L for £175 less.

obviously if you're installing these for businesses your time/warranty is worth the difference, but is there anything else I'm missing?

[aidanjt]

For a home user, are these worth the premium over say a microserver if you're happy to tinker (I mean the 4 bay ones)? I appreciate power consumption is probably better, but something like the DS413 at 275 doesn't seem to do nearly as much stuff as I could do with an N54L for £175 less.

obviously if you're installing these for businesses your time/warranty is worth the difference, but is there anything else I'm missing?

On top of the large amount of services you can install through synology's built-in package manager (including a private cloud synchronisation server). You can ssh into a root shell, bootstrap ipkg and install arbitrary optware Linux packages to the system. So I don't think it's particularly fair to call them limited. But mostly you're paying for the software/support/complete product integration, the hardware is none too shabby, too.