Exterior

The NAS's construction quality is very high, and this time, Synology used a metallic top and side cover. The front and rear are still made of plastic, and the black finish of the case is light matte and fairly resistant to fingerprints. The HDD caddies are at the front, and dots on top of those are used for numbering. Although the slots are numbered, there is unfortunately no identification or numbering on the trays themselves. The front's right side has three LED indicators and the power on/off and copy buttons. The latter also feature LED indicators. There is also a USB 2.0 port—we would much prefer a 3.0 port instead.


Synology's logo also doubles up as the exhaust grill on one of two sides.


At the rear are the 92 mm fan that removes hot air from the internals, two USB 3.0,an eSATA, and two Gigabit Ethernet ports, a security lock slot, and the power input plug.


The bottom of the NAS features four removable plastic stands, and there is a small label depicting the product's model number and its power requirements. The same label tells us that this unit is manufactured in Taiwan.


The NAS we had in our hands included two Seagate Barracuda (ST1000DM003) disks. We removed them to provide a shot of its internals with the trays removed. We will fully dismantle the NAS after we finish our testing to check on what is hiding under its metallic top and side cover.


The tray's securing mechanism is very simple. You simply have to push the bottom to release/secure these. They also feature locks essential to a business environment and can host 3.5" and 2.5" disks. Their only problem is that they are not numbered, although their slots are, so you must first, to keep track of which HDD goes with which tray, mark them before removing them. All the screws have been provided with the bundle


All buttons, slots, indicators, and ports on the front and rear of the DS713+ are described above, along with all LED designations.