In our time with the DS918+, we really grew to appreciate what solid hardware and superb software can do. Both Synology's DSM and hardware have been incrementally improving over the years and its from this solid base that Synology have successfully ventured into Office collaboration and photographic...

Verdict: Synology's Diskmanager OS makes it very simple for any user to setup servers such as Web, DNS, Email, FTP, Video, Photo and many more. The Synology Diskstation DS918+ network storage barebone server is presently available for a retail price of Rs 79,817 in India.

Build quality is always pretty good with the Synology units, the 918+ coming to market as the replacement for the DS916+ offers a similar chassis build with plastics and metal skeleton. We have similar placement for LEDs and front-facing USB 3.0 ports.

World Backup Day is slowly creeping up on us. This year we will be celebrating this holiday on March 31st. The whole point of this holiday is to raise awareness of the importance of "Data" in our lives and ways we can protect it.

Synology's latest 4-bay addition to the Plus series of NAS devices aimed at high performance and data-intensive workloads is the DS918+, a refresh of the DS916+ which launched in 2016 and which we reviewed HERE .

DSM OS; Overall performance; NVMe M.2 SSD slots; Expandability options for both storage and memory

Lack of HDMI port; Plastic drive trays

How much performance matters depends on what type of NAS you want. If you're buying for business rather than home, this is the best package, and the same goes if you're more swayed by Synology's Google Drive-like features than Asustor and Qnap's media player skills.

Elegant design; Very quiet; Vast selection of apps

Slightly disappointing raw file-transfer performance

To be honest, its not cheap, but its a lot more than just a NAS. There is so much more this standalone device does, simply calling it a NAS is doing it a disservice. things I'm currently using it for or messing with include the following....

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In the digital age, storage has become something of vital importance. However, it can't just be any storage, it needs to be fast, reliable, redundant and always accessible storage. Cloud storage can be great, it's often free (in limited quantities), it's convenient, it's accessible anywhere and it's...

The Synology DS918+ and the DS418j DiskStations are very different devices, yet both scored well in our Total NAS rankings, finishing #1 and #3 respectively. The main reason for this is that our benchmarks don't include things that benefit from the 918+'s extra processing power, namely encrypted...