Synology, a tried and true provider of NAS, networking, and surveillance products, recently released the DiskStation DS1618+, a NAS aimed at providing both home and small-to-medium sized businesses with a scalable storage solution.

Easy setup; Up to 72TB of local storage; Up to 32GB of RAM; Optional M.2 SSD caching card; Optional 10Gbps NIC; Plenty of connectivity options (3 x USB 3.0; 4 x 1Gbps NICs; Synology Disk Station Manager is easy to use

Price – Increases depending on disk size and quantity

Every office produces tons of data and maintaining age-old computer servers to store that data is soon becoming passé. Storing a centralized data in an organisation is now recommended on a NAS, if not on the cloud. And NAS systems are becoming even powerful, feature-rich and robust by the year.

Without a doubt, the rise of high-resolution content has been putting a lot of pressure on content creators to seek for faster and larger capacity storage. Just a decade ago, it was hard to imagine using up a terabyte of space, and today we already have single hard drives that can hold up to 12 TB...

The DS1618+ is a NAS aimed to fill the 6-bay gap in Synology's portfolio. Build quality is certainly up to par for a DS+ platform as it follows the same enclosure design we have seen in the past along with being user friendly for memory upgrades.

Synology's 2018 product lineup includes a new network-attached storage device that merges a prosumer price point with an enterprise-level (albeit entry-level enterprise) feature set.

Synology's DS1618+ is the long-awaited upgrade to its NAS lineup as the first to offer a faster 3000-Series Atom quad-core processor, a PCIe 3.0 expansion slot and DDR4 memory. With an $800 price tag it also becomes the most affordable Synology NAS that supports an upgrade to ECC RAM.

Review of the six drive Synology DS1618+ NAS device

Hard to write a review for a NAS since theres not much exciting or unique until a disk fails or a file gets corrupted. However - If youre thinking about this, there are a couple reasons to go with this station, and Synology. First, their simple management options are in fact simple.

I purchased this diskstation to replace the DS-1515+ that I've had for about three years. The 1515+ stopped working and I needed a replacement fast so I bought this one. What I didn't realize was that Synology was going to express a replacement for my failed diskstation, even though the warranty was...

The DS1618+ happily outperformed our expectations considering the relatively affordable price, and is a great option for those who need its mix of high performance and flexibility.

High-performance hardware; PCIe slot upgrades; Virtual machine support

Upgrades cost extra; Stiff competition from similar models; Slightly noisy