Thursday, May 12th 2016
Synology Announces the DiskStation DS916+ NAS
Synology Inc. today launched DS916+, a 4-bay scalable NAS designed for professionals and growing businesses. Powered by a quad-core CPU, DS916+ performs high-speed computing and data encryption tasks. With flexible scalability up to 9 drives, DS916+ is able to handle rapidly growing storage capacity needs. Equipped with DiskStation Manager (DSM) 6.0 and versatile add-on packages, users are able to perform seamless file syncing and sharing, productive collaboration, and smooth disaster recovery on DS916+.
DS916+ delivers outstanding performance exceeding 225 MB/s reading and 221 MB/s writing. When transferring encrypted data, DS916+ also achieves 225 MB/s reading and 209 MB/s writing and can handle a wide range of computing tasks in a secured and robust working environment. DS916+ comes with two memory options, 2 GB and 8 GB for more flexibility in concurrent connections and virtualization.
"Designed to meet fast growing businesses' increasing storage capacity demands, DS916+ bridges the gap between costly enterprise level capacity and personal storage that are insufficient for expanding businesses," said Michael Wang, Product Manager at Synology Inc. "With DS916+ and an expansion unit, DX513, businesses can now enjoy flexible scalability and all the powerful features DSM 6.0 delivers."
DS916+ runs DSM 6.0, the most advanced and intuitive operating system for NAS devices. Featuring a wide range of applications from backup to network management, DS916+ provides all essential business services and increased productivity at work. Synology has received numerous media accolades, such as topping the midrange NAS category in TechTarget's storage solution survey.
Pricing and Availability
Available now, at the following prices:
DS916+ delivers outstanding performance exceeding 225 MB/s reading and 221 MB/s writing. When transferring encrypted data, DS916+ also achieves 225 MB/s reading and 209 MB/s writing and can handle a wide range of computing tasks in a secured and robust working environment. DS916+ comes with two memory options, 2 GB and 8 GB for more flexibility in concurrent connections and virtualization.
DS916+ runs DSM 6.0, the most advanced and intuitive operating system for NAS devices. Featuring a wide range of applications from backup to network management, DS916+ provides all essential business services and increased productivity at work. Synology has received numerous media accolades, such as topping the midrange NAS category in TechTarget's storage solution survey.
Pricing and Availability
Available now, at the following prices:
- DS916+ (2GB) = $599.99
- DS916+ (8GB) = $649.99
4 Comments on Synology Announces the DiskStation DS916+ NAS
I would need eight bays at least with 12 being ideal, along with reasonable expansion options beyond that. I have a Synology DS1815+, which meets those minimum needs but I would have preferred a DS3615xs or RS18016xs+.
The thing with the Synology model I have (and likely other models) that use eSATA for expansion is that the controllers doesn't seem to support port multipliers. Therefore when connecting a typical external expansion bay via eSATA it might not see any external drives needed to create a volume in Storage Manager. So for example, in my case I had to configure the external enclosure to a specific RAID type (RAID 5) before the DiskStation would see any drives.
Now that isn't necessarily all that important to most people. However, it does mean that many looking to expand storage beyond the number of drive bays in a Synology unit like this will likely get the best experance buying a Synology branded expansion unit. A Synology DX513 expansion cost something like ~$460 USD which is fairly expensive for just an external enclosure with 5 HDD bays.
People shouldn't have any issues with a Synology NAS and a Synology DX513 eSATA expansion unit. The issue I was referring to was with non-Synology eSATA units. That issue being HDDs installed in many non-Synology eSATA external enclosures won't be accessible in Synology DSM unless set to a specified RAID level. JBOD and Normal mode wont work properly if at all. Connecting via USB 3.0 will allow for all HDDs to be accessible via DSM without a RAID configuration set by the enclosure but said HDDs are not accessible via Storage Manger so no volumes can be made with them (in this case its probably a good thing).
Not a deal breaker necessarily but its good to know these things going in when buying the hardware.
BTW, I wouldn't advise anyone to buy a 4 bay or 5 bay Synology NAS with a DX513 expansion unit from the offset. If you need 8 HDDs or more then it makes sense to buy that initially in one unit / product. The cost would probably be about the same since the DX513 is rather outrageously / egregiously over priced for what it is.