Synology DS2015xs

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Dual Gigabit Ethernet & builtin 10GbE SFPinterfaces, Good bang for the buck, Quiet
Upgradable to a total of 120TB of storage capacity and 8GB of system RAM, Proven DiskStation Manager operating system and management interface with a robust ecosystem of builtin and optional applications, Passively cooled processor reduces power requireme...

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No PCIe expansion slots, Relatively low 10GbE iSCSI performance, No front panel display
Lackluster performance compared to the Synology DiskStation DS1815across most benchmarks

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Dual Gigabit Ethernet & builtin 10GbE SFPinterfaces, Good bang for the buck, Quiet
Upgradable to a total of 120TB of storage capacity and 8GB of system RAM, Proven DiskStation Manager operating system and management interface with a robust ecosystem of builtin and optional applications, Passively cooled processor reduces power requireme

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No PCIe expansion slots, Relatively low 10GbE iSCSI performance, No front panel display
Lackluster performance compared to the Synology DiskStation DS1815across most benchmarks

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By IT PRO on June 01, 2015 80

With its SFP+ ports and Annapurna SoC, the DS2015xs is a bit of an odd-ball NAS appliance. IP SAN write performance isn't great but it has no problems with NAS operations and you won't get dual 10GbE ports as standard for less than...

By TechRadar AU on March 02, 2015 70

The DS2015xs falls somewhere in between the SME and more demanding mid-range business storage market, and as a result will sell mostly to a niche audience able to accept the inevitable...

By SmallNetBuilder on October 13, 2015

Eight bay quad-core Annapurna Labs NAS with dual Gigabit Ethernet and dual 10GbE SFP+ slots built...

By InfoWorld on April 08, 2015

The past few years have seen a meteoric rise in the breadth and scope of small-business NAS, and while the top names in this space may have brought the core disciplines of NAS and even SAN to maturity, they continue to add features to their hardware. The...

By AnandTech on March 05, 2015

We don't have any comparison graphs for RAID rebuild duration / power consumption since other 8-bay units were subject to RAID operations with 4 TB hard drives. The usage of 120 GB SSDs prevents us from making any concrete conclusions about the...

By StorageReview on March 04, 2015

The Synology DiskStation DS2015xs features an updated hardware platform which excels in certain use cases, but all-around performance in our benchmarks is only occassionaly exceeds that of its...

By com-magazin.de on August 08, 2015

Synology spendiert seinem schnellen Business-NAS neben den GBit-Anschlüssen auch zwei 10GbE-Ports. com! professional hatte den 8-Bay-Netzwerkspeicher im Test.Das Performance-Fundament des 8-Bay-Netzwerkspeichers Synology DiskStation DS2015xs bildet der...

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