Reviewers Liked
- Easy setup
- Up to 72TB of local storage
- Up to 32GB of RAM
- Optional M.2 SSD caching card
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Price
Synology DiskStation DS1618 Plus 6-bay USB3
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9.2
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By IT PRO
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Its new Atom CPU and big DDR4 memory capacity makes the Synology RackStation DS1618+ a great choice for handling a wide range of network storage duties with room on top for plenty of apps. 10GbE performance is a little uneven but is good enough for...
By TechRadar
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It's hard not to love the DS1618+, with its mix powerful hardware and flexible upgrade options. As high-end NAS devices go, it's also fairly competitively priced. Of course, it faces some stiff competition from other Synology NAS models, as well as...
By PCWorld New Zealand
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If you're looking for a solid middle-of-the-road NAS that's got six drives and just enough guts to do justice to most potential everyday applications, the Synology DS1618+ is a good way to go.As with most NAS products, it's about finding the right fit....
By pcquest.com
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The NAS box comes with various useful features, numerous connectivity options, and DSM OS which is seriously awesome. It has 6 bays that can store up to 84 TB data, massive for small businesses, it is a great choice to create your own private...
By Neowin
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There's no question that the Synology DS1618+ is a quality piece of hardware. However quality devices do not come cheap: Street price for the NAS device is $750, and that's without any hard drives. If you consider that a 3TB IronWolf NAS drive costs...
By servethehome.com
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The new Synology DS1618+ takes on the extra hard drive loadout with Intel's “Denverton” Atom C3538 platform. Quad cores give the system the performance boost needed to handle tasks like encryption across all six hard drives. Adding in the PCIe 3.0 slot...
By ThinkComputers
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The Synology DiskStation DS1618+ has been a highly anticipated product, and we can say that the wait was probably worth it. Offering six drive bays for a theoretical local storage capacity of 72TB, this NAS should provide plenty of room for most users....
By PCPer
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As we've discovered recently here at the PCPer office, once you experience 10Gb/s network speeds, you never want to go back. And while we've rolled our own storage servers, there's still a place in most homes and businesses for turnkey NAS solutions.The...
By Techgage
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Synology's DS1618+ is the long-awaited upgrade to its NAS lineup as the first to offer a faster 3000-Series Atom quadcore processor, a PCIe 3.0 expansion slot and DDR4 memory. With an $800 price tag it also becomes the most affordable Synology NAS that...
By eTeknix
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What a NAS! Synology DiskStation DS1618+ is a NAS of my taste. It has all the right things to be the best at what it does: Store and serve your files. And while it doesn't stop there, it doesn't go beyond what it needs to do.A Solid Base with Expansion...
By techsupportforum.com
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If the point isn't already clear, let me make it obvious by saying that the Synology DS1618+ is an excellent NAS and an excellent product.Its resound DiskStation Manager operating system is one of the best I have ever used on a server product. Synology...
By Noticias 3D
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Sabemos que la calidad de un NAS es directamente proporcional a su firmware, y el DSM de Synology sigue tan en buena forma como siempre. La versión 7.0 incorpora novedades muy útiles, como el rebuild del RAID acelerado (podemos constatar que tarda al...
By Hardwareluxx
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Die Synology DS1618+ konnte im Verlauf des Testes ein sehr gutes Bild abgeben und sich als leistungsstarkes wie auch vielseitiges NAS präsentieren, welches auch durch seine sehr umfangreichen Angebote auf Softwareseite sehr gut aufgestellt...
By qloudea.com
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Un servidor NAS con características profesionales que nos permite trabajar en entornos con necesidad de altas tasas de transferencia, sobre todo en lectura de datos. Un equipo con la capacidad de aumentar su espacio de almacenamiento con hasta 16 discos...
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