Friday, June 19th 2020
Synology Announces DS220+, DS420+, DS720+, and DS920+ NAS
Synology Inc. today launched a new generation of two and four bay Plus Series NAS, designed as a centralized data management solution for both home and business environments. "Plus series is one of our most popular and versatile product lines," said Hewitt Lee, Director of Synology Product Management Group."The series offers an ideal mix of processing power and advanced capabilities such as containers and virtualization support, in compact and quiet desktop form factors. It is also the starting point for our advanced data protection solutions, enabling small businesses to cost-effectively deploy solutions that can protect their entire IT infrastructure."
Up to 133% faster in website responsiveness and over 15% improvement in compute-tasks, the new Plus series enables you to get things done faster and more efficiently. Two M.2 NVMe slots2 enable accelerated I/O performance, especially in multi-user environments. Synology storage solutions are not only designed to fulfill data management requirements, but centralize backups for Microsoft Windows PCs and Servers, VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V VMs, and Microsoft 365 and G Suite accounts using our Active Backup suite.
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Access your data without boundaries, but only if you allow it. Granular access rights and customizable password and expiration policies for file sharing puts you in control of your data. Easily synchronize with remote sites for distributed work and set up data encryption for your most sensitive files.
Available today
All four devices are available for purchase today from Synology resellers and partners, with availability in additional regions following shortly.
Up to 133% faster in website responsiveness and over 15% improvement in compute-tasks, the new Plus series enables you to get things done faster and more efficiently. Two M.2 NVMe slots2 enable accelerated I/O performance, especially in multi-user environments. Synology storage solutions are not only designed to fulfill data management requirements, but centralize backups for Microsoft Windows PCs and Servers, VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V VMs, and Microsoft 365 and G Suite accounts using our Active Backup suite.
Access your data without boundaries, but only if you allow it. Granular access rights and customizable password and expiration policies for file sharing puts you in control of your data. Easily synchronize with remote sites for distributed work and set up data encryption for your most sensitive files.
Available today
All four devices are available for purchase today from Synology resellers and partners, with availability in additional regions following shortly.
21 Comments on Synology Announces DS220+, DS420+, DS720+, and DS920+ NAS
You still have to take care of securing it, it's not as magic as the PR would have you believe.
the units with 2 LAN's can be bonded/aggregated
8GB RAM I don't have a problem with.
This NAS (920+) also costs nearly $1000CAD, and also comes with a crap Celeron dual core non-hyperthreadding CPU, as well as a GPU which cannot accelerate transcoding of 4K 10Bit. (HDR)
This $1000 NAS comes with about $100 worth of outdated (for 2020-2022) hardware.The troll totally misses the point... I'm sorry you cannot afford a modern motherboard/router/switch, and have slow Internet to boot, but to insult people who do have these things, and actually like the idea that a brand new $1000 NAS that they were looking forward to the release of, should be able to transfer multi gigabyte files faster than 112MBs without re-wiring their house's ethernet, is simply childish.
You need to access the NAS with multiple clients to get more than 1Gbps out of it and you never get 2Gbps.
Hence why a faster NIC would be preferred.
Now, what really irks me about Synology is $500 (or more) only buys you plastic HDD trays. And we all know what happens to plastic in time.
They only go up one digit every year and they seem to adhere to the year it is.
The down side is that dual Xeon processors wont be as energy efficient and the server will simply cost more to run annually then an anemic Intel Atom or Celeron.
Still, at some point you have to stop playing with overpriced toys,.....
Edit:
It should be pointed out that there are 2.5GbE Ethernet USB options out there but what are the chances that Synology will allow them to work with their NAS units? I’d say slim to none but 10GbE is a better option anyway IMO.
QNAP have a decent backlog of CVEs but they tend to patch quickly.
Meanwhile, look at the 'security' design of Synology...I prefer their software ecosystem better, too.
To each his or her own,...
I prefer the Synology DSM OS and the Synology Software over that of what QNAP has on offer. I currently have a Synology DS1815+ and a QNAP TS-451+ In addition to the new Dell surplus server that has yet to be put into service. Both have their pro’s and con’s but I was looking for something more substantial. Perhaps something in the rack mount form factor although I rather liked the Asustor AS7110T which is a 10 bay Xeon 9th gen model with dual NVMe support as well as 10GbE and triple 2.5GbE.
It’s still much cheaper to just buy a decommissioned enterprise level server though.
Anyway, I often hear people say "a NAS is not a server! Don't expose ports! buy a cheap decommissioned rack server!", well not everyone has space for a loud as hell old server, that uses a ton of power for just experimenting and having fun with some docker images, streaming, VM's and so on, I'm not trying to run a small business. And in regards to the ports, well yes you are right, but if you know what you are doing and take proper precautions you are more or less just as exposed to external threats as usual.
In regards to the DS920+, I had hoped they upgraded the NIC like their competitors have done, and also upgraded the CPU to at least one of the newer intel celerons with more than four cores and updated iGPU's. A ryzen derived CPU would be much better but that would require a newer mainboard and updated DSM.
Anyway, the Asustor Lockerstor 10 Pro AS7110T has almost all the features I wanted in a NAS or server but it was in the ~$2400 USD price range assuming you could even find it in stock. Something like a Synology DS2419+ uses an Atom SoC which is OK for some tasks but given the price and performance level isn’t worth it to me. There may be a suitable Synology Rack Station but I had difficulty find one and a 12bay model would likely be in the same ~$2400+ price range.
As for an old server, there are some things that can be done to lower the power consumption and noise levels often aren’t an issue unless they are really being pushed. If there are 4 CPUs or 2 they can be reduced to 2 or 1. There may be lower power version of processors available. Fan curves can be set or fans can be replaced with lower RPM fans.