Synology Launches XS/Plus/Value-Series Tower NAS Product Lineup

Synology Inc. announced product lineup featuring:

• XS-series DS3018xs: Company’s first 6-bay tower NAS with optional 10GbE and M.2 SATA SSD supports

• Plus-series DS918+, DS718+, and DS218+: Performance and data resiliency for intensive workloads

• Value-series DS418: Introduction of 4K online transcoding capability

To allow for high performance using SSD cache without occupying internal drive bays, DS3018xs features a PCIe slot, which can be installed with a dual M.2 SATA SSD adapter card (M2D17). DS918+ comes with dedicated dual M.2 NVMe slots at the bottom to directly install M.2 NVMe SSDs. DS418 features 10-bit H.265 4K video transcoding.

DS3018xs NAS
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XS-series:
DS3018xs, the company’s first 6-bay tower NAS, is compact but as it features the advanced processor Pentium D1508 dual-core 2.2GHz (Turbo Boost up to 2.6GHz) with AES-NI encryption engine, offering scalability of RAM up to 32GB and of storage capacity up to 30 drives with two firm’s DX1215. In addition to four Gigabit LAN ports, DS3018xs takes advantage of boosting maximum throughput with an optional 10GbE network interface card, delivering performance at over 2,230 MB/s sequential reading and 265,000 sequential read IO/s.

DS918+ NAS
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Plus-series:
DS918+ and DS718+ are powered by Celeron J3455 quad-core processor. DS218+ is powered by Celeron J3355 dual core processor. All these models are equipped with AES-NI hardware encryption engine. Powered by transcoding engine, these Plus-series NAS servers support up to two channels of H.265/H.264 4K video transcoding. The RAM can be scaled up to 8GB for DS918+, and up to 6GB for the other two products, allowing you to operate more intensive tasks at once. DS918+ and DS718+ are equipped with two LAN ports, and their storage capacity can be scaled up to nine and sept drives respectively with the firm’s DX517.

DS718+ NAS
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DS218+ NAS
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“Responding to the demands from our customers, DS3018xs is built as a comprehensive business-ready desktop NAS. Running mission-critical applications or planning virtualization deployment with DS3018xs has never been easier.” said Vic Hsu, CEO, Synology. “The new DS918+, DS718+, and DS218+ are optimized to be your digital video libraries, and will bring you excellent experiences with high definition live video transcoding anywhere you go.“

DS418 NAS
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Value-series:
DS418 is equipped with a 1.4GHz quad-core processor with hardware encryption engine, 2GB RAM, and two LAN ports. Powered by the hardware transcoding engine, it supports H.265 4K transcoding to serve as your media library. DS418 is for offices and home users to manage, protect, and share the critical data efficiently.

DS3018xs, DS918+, DS718+, DS218+, and DS418 run with DiskStation Manager (DSM) 6.1, an OS for NAS devices which offers a of applications to bring better productivity at work.