Synology Disk Station DS218+ features a dual-core processor with AES-NI encryption acceleration and a transcoding engine, providing high-speed file transfers and supporting real-time 4K transcoding. DS218+ is ideal for protecting critical assets and sharing files across different platforms. Synology DS218+ is backed by Synology 2-year limited .
Product Features
- Encrypted sequential throughput performance at over 113 MB/s reading and 112 MB/s writing
- Dual-core Processor with AES-NI encryption engine
- 2GB DDR3L memory (expandable up to 6GB)
- Advanced Bars file system offering 65, 000 system-wide snapshots and 1, 024 snapshots per shared folder
- Live transcoding of up to two concurrent H. 265/H. 264 4K video streaming
- By default, two camera licenses are installed; extra licenses can be purchased (CLP1, CLP4, or CLP8)
4 Stars to 1 Stars.. confused… read on and you will understand. Update attempt Number 2I originally submitted an update to this review about a week ago and it did not see the light of day. No explanation from amazon as to why it did not get posted but I am submitting it again in hopes that it will go through.I have been a synology fan boy for several years now. I suffered through the DSM issues and poor hardware choices because I was able to get it to work and it functioned well for my purposes. This is my fourth unit (two have gone into…
Setup was easy… Iâve attached a few pics, nothing to outrageous here, itâs a 4 bay NAS (that can be expanded to 9 drives). Kind of a light weight feel to it, plastic frame and hard drive housings, but later when itâs loaded with drives the weight savings was appreciated.Along with drives, I also installed a M2 NVMe drive for cache set up. Later when setting it up you see that a solo cache SSD maximizes the read speed, to get the best performance for read and write tasks you need to have 2 SSDs…
This thing is great! This is a powerful little box that does just about everything you could ever need.Not only does it happily serve up all my files over the network, it does it fast and with every protocol I’ve ever seen. SMB? Check. iSCSI? Check. NFS? FTP? Rsync? Yup.With the ability to run virtual machines (and Docker containers!), I was able to have it take over my power-hungry PC running 24/7 as well as a remote VPS VM I was paying for. It’ll eventually pay for itself with power…