TestFreaks takes a look at the Synology DiskStation DS712+

In the past we have reviewed several Synology NAS Servers coming away with positive impressions. Synology continues to innovate their products both on the hardware platform and software side. New hardware iterations add speed with significant performance gains while updates to their DiskStation Manager(DSM)continue to make their NAS servers more functional.

For today’s review we will check out Synology’s top of the line two bay network attached storage solution – the DiskStation DS712+. This machine features dual Gigabit LAN which provides read speeds of up to180.91MB/sec and writes at 105.59MB/sec when using Link Aggregation under RAID 0 configuration. This box uses a low power Intel Atom processor which makes the machine both powerful in its class and energy efficient; you can easily replace a PC sized server with a Synology NAS Server running on your home or work network.

Storage capacity tops out at 8 TB but these can be maxed out at 28 TB with the addition of the five bay Synology DX510 expansion enclosure.

  Synology DiskStation DS712+ Review