The Synology DS414j may not be the most glamorous of NAS drives, if indeed there is a candidate leader, but it is well-made and packs just enough power to not embarrass itself in basic benchmark tests for its file-serving speed.
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The Synology DS414j may not be the most glamorous of NAS drives, if indeed there is a candidate leader, but it is well-made and packs just enough power to not embarrass itself in basic benchmark tests for its file-serving speed.
For home users that need a decent amount of network storage on tap, it's possible to build a network-attached storage (NAS) box around a simple two-bay device. In fact, with single hard disks now running up to 6 TB capacity, you might be able to...
Quick enough to cope with file sharing as well as hosting email and other applications normally run on a Windows or Linux server, the DS414j ticks most of the boxes for a small business NAS appliance. At 20TB it's also got the necessary capacity and, with four disks, the redundancy to go with it, plus a USB 3.0 port to support fast backups. Synology's DSM is a delight as always but the DS414j is a little on the basic side especially compared to its big brother – the DS414, without the "j" – which is quicker, slicker, and also not that much more expensive.
The Synology DS414j is a reasonably powerful, cost effective NAS for SOHO use. It's not going to blow the doors off, but for small workgroups that can benefit from all a NAS and Synology's deep bench of DSM tools can offer, it's a great starting point for shared storage.
It may be no speed king, but the DS414j is one of the cheapest four bay NAS around. It's also quiet and sports Synology's class leading DSM software making setup a doddle. As such the DS414j is the best four bay budget NAS we've tested, but we would...
The Synology DS414j may not be the most glamorous of NAS drives, if indeed there is a candidate leader, but it is well-made and packs just enough power to not embarrass itself in basic benchmark tests for its file-serving speed. That it runs the same...
Aimed at home users with tighter budgets, the 4-bay DS414j unit retains an old version chassis and at its core we have the MindSpeed Comcerto 2000 dual-core 1.2GHz ARM processor which is paired with only 512MB of RAM.The product is running DSM 5.0...
The Diskstation DS414j 4-Bay NAS server is just another fine example of what Synology is capable of. The aesthetics of the design are retro and understated, and with the minimal noise created by the device it will be able to disappear in most home or...