Synology DiskStation DS418play 4-bay NAS

Ensure that you and your team are well-equipped for the workday with the DS418PLAY desktop NAS from Synology. Unlike normal external hard drives, the NAS (network-attached storage) device can be integrated directly into your network. This gives all computers connected to your network access to the device and data. It offers you sufficient storage space and requires much less power than regular PCs. The desktop NAS device has two Gigabit Ethernet ports and is equipped with an Intel Celeron J3355 2.0 GHz processor. The 2 GB RAM allows several users to access data at the same time. The following data storage forms are available for this desktop NAS system: 0, JBOD, 1, 6 and 5. JBOD (or "just a bunch of disks") allows you to connect hard drives of various sizes to create a multi-drive storage system. Unlike RAID levels, you will not lose any storage capacity of the various drives you combine.

Using RAID 0 means your hard drives (ideally of equal storage capacities) are interconnected and work parallely. This increases performance and speed as the work is split bewteen multiple drives, but there is no fault tolerance. RAID 1 offers you high data security through data mirroring. A replica is created of all your data from one drive to another, meaning if one crashes you will still retain all of your information. This also means that the capacity of all your drives is halved because of duplicated content. For smaller NAS systems RAID 1 is an ideal option. RAID 5 stores your data on multiple drives, which gives you high data security. If a drive begins to fail, the data it holds will be recreated and distributed to the other drives allowing users to continue working uninterrupted. For larger NAS systems with more than three hard drives RAID 5 is the ideal choice to retain optimal data security and total drive storage capacity. RAID 6 offers you high data security and is still operational even if two hard drives in the system fail.

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