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These are rather small capacity drives and not useful for normal operation, but they will give us an idea how SSD’s perform in the DS1517+. We also have five 240GB Seagate XF1230 SSD’s to try out SSD performance. Using three drives lowers entry cost and gives us two bays for expansion. Synology DS1517+ Seagate Ironwolf HDDįor hard drives, we will use three 8TB Seagate Ironwolf NAS drives. We will use two sets of drives in our testing, hard drives and SSD’s. Here we see the configuration of our DS1517+, equipped with an Intel Atom C2538 quad core processor at 2.4 GHz gives us plenty of power to handle the unit, 8GB of DDR3 ensures RAM will not be a bottleneck in our tests. Synology DS1517+ 5 Bay NAS Performance Synology DS1517+ System Info If you would like to check out DSM 6.1 via a Live Demo, head over here. We updated our DS1517+ to the latest version. Synology DSM 6.1 FeaturesĭiskStation Manager or DSM is a web based Operating system found on every Synology NAS solution.

Setting up our DS1517+ is the same as our DS916+ review which you can read about here. Synology DS1517+ WelcomeĬlicking on the “Setup” button gets you started. Synology DS1517+ Assistantĭouble click on the DS1517+ gets us going with getting our NAS up and ready to use. Sometimes we have issues with “” and not seeing our NAS the Assistant worked without issues. Getting our DS1517+ up and running is the same as the DS916+ we reviewed earlier.Īfter turning on the NAS and connecting it to your network type in “” in your browser to bring up the management interface, or you can use Synology Assistant to find your NAS unit over the network.

#Ssd preforments on 10gbps inetwork full#

Synology DS1517+ Hardware OverviewĪnd a full description of all the ports on the DS1517+ is shown here. Large fans at the back cool the box which is silent in operation. Synology DS1517+ BackĪ normal power port at the back negates the need for a power adapter with the DS1517+. The drive bays are key locked which adds security to the unit. The front of the DS1517+ has the iconic Synology look and feel, fairly simple with the power button and status LEDs at the top. Synology DS1517+ 5-Bay NAS OverviewĪccessories included with the DS1517+ include:Īfter removing the DS1517+ from its packing material, we can now take a look at the NAS. These expansion units offer on-the-fly volume expansion and is immediately ready to be used once connected. Two DX517 5-bay expansion boxes can allow the DS1517+ to expand to a total of 15 drives. Synology quotes speeds of 1,179 MB/s read, and 542 MB/s write. The 10GbE network card shown installed in our test unit works great for bandwidth-intensive environments for extreme data transfer speeds. If you need blazing fast network speeds, an optional 10GbE network card is available. Performance wise, it is still a step up from hard drives but it is not the same speed as high-end NVMe storage solutions. We do want to note this is a SATA SSD device, not a PCIe 3.0 based NVMe storage device. Synology DS1517+ With SSD Adapter Card Installed The SSD cache adapter card frees up two storage slots in the main unit giving more capacity.

There are both M.2 SSD (SATA) expansion as well as 10GbE options.įor users that need SSD cache abilities for heavy user workloads, the new line-up can add a Synology M2D17 Dual M.2 SATA SSD adapter card. Synology’s DS1517+ and DS1817+ both sport a Gen2 x8 slot (x4 link) PCIe expansion slot that serves up additional capabilities for this new NAS line-up. Synology DS1517+ 5-Bay NAS Key Specifications Synology DS1517+ Specificationsįor complete system specifications of the DS1517+ head over to Synology to find more detail. Let’s take a look at one of Synology’s newest offerings. In this testing session, we ran over 40 benchmarks and even jumped to SMB hyper speed with 10 gigabit Ethernet and SSDs. Today we have a Synology DS1517+ 5 Bay NAS in the lab to review. Last month we posted about the latest offerings from Synology, the DS1517+, and DS1518+.