Reviews - Synology DS414j

[HEXUS]

Four-bay, budget-friendly NAS designed with home users in mind.

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[Butuz]

I don't really see how the benchmarks are comparable when you are using different HDD's in this particular NAS compared to the other three?

You may well find that shoving WD red drives into the others changes the balance of your charts!

Butuz

[idris]

Did you fail to understand what was written on the Test Methodology page?

Here it is again:
"Readers should note that our usual hard drives - 1TB Samsung HD103SJs - have bitten the dust. 4TB WD Red hard drives (model WD40EFRX) have been introduced as a replacement and these drives will be used in all future NAS reviews. The following results should therefore not be used as a direct comparison, but rather as a guideline of the performance available from the Synology unit. Looking ahead, we will be revamping our NAS benchmark suite in the coming weeks, so please do get in touch and let us know if you'd like to see any tests in particular."

[siu99spj]

A cheap Pentium G3220, H87 Micro-ATX mobo, RAM, a decent case (Aerocool Deadsilence) and a look at XPEnology will get you much the same with way more (Processing) grunt for somewhat less. Perhaps not ideal if you want a plug and play option admittedly, but perfect for the DIY fan (Like most Hexus readers I guess).

Also, page 2, 512GB of RAM not amount to much? When did RAM start growing on trees? EDIT: OK fixed now