IF I “HAVE TO” BUY A BRANDED NAS BOX, I’d spend my money on the biggest NAS with the max # of BAYS possible. Cuz you can always buy cheap smaller drives at first, but if you get a small NAS and used up all your bays from the begining it won’t grow more bays in the future and expanding more capacity means you have to discard your smaller drives, and that is a drive doing nothing loosing it’s value as redundancy. Bigger disks means less options for redundancy as you have less individual disks, less theoretical throughput and often higher cost because even though the cost per GB drops the amount of GB’s per disk is significantly higher. The V1780B supports DDR4 memory with ECC (error-correcting code) support, which is important for data integrity and reliability. The DS1823xs+ comes with 8GB of DDR4 ECC SODIMM memory pre-installed, but this can be expanded up to 32GB with two memory slots. That said (sorry to go all negative again…but); you cannot install either of the Synology M.2 NVMe Upgrade cards (M2D20 and E10G20-T1 Combo card). Now, on the face of it, you might be wondering why that’s a big deal? The DS1823xs+ already has two m.2 NVMe SSD bays. However, it would be nice to be able to add more, either for caching or storage pools. It seems such a conscious choice by the brand to eliminate these cards to be used in this system and one that I think (as use of M.2s for storage in the Synology platform grows) is going to be annoyingly limiting. Again, this is a minor gripe and one that will affect a very small % of users, but something worth toughing on,

The performance of the mail system will slightly decrease in high-availability mode due to data synchronization between the two servers. Nothing is perfect, right? For all of the positives that I have highlighted above, the DS1823xs+ is still not a perfect Synology NAS solution. Here are five reasons why you might want to give the Synology DS1823xs+ NAS drive a miss, opt for an alternative brand or go for a lower-priced predecessor. #1 – HDD and SSD Compatibility on the Synolgoy DS1823xs+ is Odd Likewise, if you compare the AMD embedded Ryzen V1780B in the DS1823xs+ against the DS1621xs+’ Intel Xeon D1527, the AMD comes out much better overall. Yes, the DS1823xs+ is potentially being delivered as an upgrade/refresh of the DS1621xs+ (still TBC), with Synology increasing the range of their systems that are switching from Intel to AMD processors (an AMD EPYC processor in the latest generation SA series, and the DS923+/DS723+ arriving with a dual-core R1600 Embedded Ryzen), it’s not hugely surprising that they have opted for this slightly higher tier V1000 series processor for the DS1823xs+. Additionally, the DS1823xs+ isn’t even the first Synology NAS to arrive with support of this CPU – with the 2022 released FS2500 being the first to feature it. Sorry to go all negative again…BUT… you cannot install either of the Synology M.2 NVMe Upgrade cards (M2D20 and E10G20-T1 Combo card). Now, on the face of it, you might be wondering why that’s a big deal? The DS1823xs+ already has two m.2 NVMe SSD bays. However, it would be nice to be able to add more, either for caching or storage pools. It seems such a conscious choice by the brand to eliminate these cards to be used in this system and one that I think (as use of M.2s for storage in the Synology platform grows) is going to be annoyingly limiting. Again, this is a minor gripe and one that will affect a very small % of users, but something worth toughing on, Memory: The DS3622xs+ has the highest memory capacity, with support for up to 48 GB of RAM. The DS1823xs+ has 16 GB of pre-installed RAM, while the other two models come with 8 GB of pre-installed RAM.As an Arch Linux user, I was torn between buying an expensive (new) tiny RAID machine with 4 x new HDD’s or using an old (but free) monstrous 12 bay Supermicro server with 12 (free) smaller HDD’s. As mentioned earlier, the bulk of the DS1823xs+ space is occupied by those eight SATA storage bays and everything else is cleverly wrapped around it, maintaining a surprisingly compact chassis) in all three dimensions in fact). The internal hardware is accessible by the removal of five rear screws and inside you find that big HDD cage, the PSU slid into one side, the PCIe upgrade card cavity on the other, and the main single board that has the CPU+Memory+ports horizontally placed at the base of the device. It’s a neat bit of design! Usable capacity for each volume will be lower than the maximum volume size and is dependent on the filesystem and the amount of system metadata stored. applies to files indexed or hosted by Synology Drive. For file access through other standard protocols, refer to the File Services section above) However, as this is a Synology XS system, that means that there are two slightly awkward things we need to discuss. Namely Support of Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR) and 3rd Party HDD/SSDs on the DS1823xs+ NAS. As there is a very popular software feature of Synology that is absent on this system.

It’s worth noting that while you can generally perform an easy migration from one Synology NAS to another by moving the internal hard drives, that’s only possible if the source server uses a RAID configuration it supports. With more than 3,100/2,600 MB/s sequential read/write speeds 2and flexible configuration options, the DS1823xs+ supports demanding applications in creative and data-oriented industries. Random I/O performance can be improved by adding fast M.2 NVMe or SATA SSD storage volumes or designating SSDs as read/write cache for HDD volumes. 3Built-in 10GbE connectivity and up to four optional 1/10/25GbE or Fibre Channel ports support applications that demand large bandwidth, while Synology DX517expansion units 4can be added to the DS1823xs+ for up to 324 TB of total raw storage when data growth demands it. When you factor in the network connectivity inside the DS1823xs+ and PCIe upgrade options, there is a huge amount of storage to play with here alongside a huge amount of bandwidth to push it through! #3 – The AMD V1780B CPU is a Good Balance vs its Predecessors and even a XeonSequential write throughput in MB/s when using a 10GbE SMB connection. Tested on an all-flash volume with Synology SAT5200 flash drives.

M.2 Drive Slots: Both the DS1621xs+ and the DS1823xs+ have two M.2 slots for NVMe cache, while the DS3622xs+ has no M.2 slots. When I originally set it up, it had two drives in it. It was kind of noisy but no more than I expected. When I added a third drive, the noise and amount of disc access was much greater than it had been. Performance figures obtained through internal testing by Synology. Actual performance may vary depending on the testing environment, usage, and configuration. See performance charts for more information. The speed of the NVMe is also an essential consideration. The Seagate FireCuda 530 SSD has the highest read and write speeds of up to 7,300MB/s and 6,900MB/s, respectively, while the Synology NVMe M.2 has the lowest read and write speeds of up to 3,000MB/s and 750MB/s, respectively. Additionally, the Seagate FireCuda 530 SSD has the highest read and write IOPS of up to 1,000,000 and 1,000,000, respectively, while the Synology NVMe M.2 has the lowest IOPS of up to 225,000 and 45,000, respectively. Bigger means less power draw, less vibrations and less potential heat, less physical space used and more capacity.Alongside the main 8x storage bays, the system also the two internal M.2 NVMe SSD bays (Gen3) which can be used for Read/Write caching and/or Storage Pools. Once again, for those looking at using the DS1823xs+ as a three-tier storage system (eg with Hot NVMe – Warm SATA SSD – SATA HDD Cold pools), this is going o be tremendously appealing, especially when you factor one or more (PCIe Upgrade) external 10GbE connections to edit Video/Photos directly on the NAS. The DS1823xs+ is now the 3rd system to allow NVMe SSD storage pools in the brand’s portfolio, a long-long demanded feature. However, it’s application here is a little less cut-n-dry than many might like. In addition to its powerful processor, the DS1823xs+ also supports up to 32 GB of DDR4 ECC memory, which helps ensure data integrity and system stability during intensive workloads. It also has four Gigabit Ethernet ports that support Link Aggregation and Failover, which can help ensure high-speed and reliable network connectivity for multiple users.