No matter how many fast disks it has, everything will ultimately be squeezed thru 1 (or 2) 1GB network connection in a typical home use situation. All content, design, and layout are Copyright © 1998–2024 Digital Photography Review All Rights Reserved.

As technology enthusiasts, we always want bragging rights to maximal performance even if we never need it.DS620slim also comes with 4K video transcoding support, perfect for streaming ultra-high definition media contents. Bits will rot on hard disk, so files can become corrupted over time even if the files are never written to or read. While RAID will cover incidents of drive failures to a point, keeping all one's photos/data exclusively on it is a recipe for disaster. An SSD cache can improve the overall performance that you’ll get out of your system since the faster SSDs will reduce the latency involved when using mechanical drives. Though the device can function with a single media drive installed, it is recommended that you install several in the right RAID environment for perfect data redundancy (as well as the performance boosts that the right RAID level can create).

Instead, however, you are forced into the bottleneck of 2-gigabit ethernet, and that is only if you utilise link aggregation in which case you are significantly throttling your upload and download speeds to the NAS.Overall the DS620slim is another Synology NAS solution that packs in a lot of functionality inside a very small footprint. One area where the DS620slim differs in terms of where aesthetic design meets practicality when compared with larger diskstation NAS is in the logo on the side of the chassis. You can get nvme drives that have a longer life span but they're more specialized for certain applications where life expectancy isn't as high a requirement. I'd happily have a small, relatively silent NAS sitting under my desk for large file storage and automated backups of my computers. Operating System: Synology DSM with expandable application and service functionality via add-on packages.

The DS620slim, much like previous Synology slim devices, is a NAS server that aims to give you all the features and functionality of a modern NAS, but in a remarkably compact form. I also configured a SSD cache in my test setup, using the to Kingston SSDs that we got along with the NAS for testing purposes. This could for instance be a mail server, databases and other similar things that consistently use data. Will usually dispatch within same working day if paid before 15:00 GMT (excludes weekends and holidays).It’s all easily done via the storage management options in DSM, and you can change it continuously, if you so desire.