Synology DS620slim 6-bay NAS

The Synology DS620slim is one of the most compact NAS servers available today. It supports up to six HDD/SSDs for plenty of storage if you equip it with large-capacity drives. We measured power consumption to be low, and the same goes for its operating noise.

Compact dimensions; Increased capacity because of six drive bays; Low power consumption; Quiet operation; Btrfs filesystem support (besides EXT4; Great operating system (DSM OS; Two Gigabit Ethernet ports; Ability to skip disk checking during RAID setup (only in RAID 0; 1; and 10; SSD caching and...

No HDMI and Thunderbolt 3 ports; A stronger CPU could offer better performance in multi-client scenarios; Plastic HDD trays have no anti-vibration materials; You cannot format an external disk into NTFS (but NTFS disks are recognized properly

Synology DS620slim Gigabit NAS Review

The trend for NAS units this year will be two-fold, a move towards NAND storage based NAS units and of course Multi- GigE 2.5/5 and 10 GB/sec connections. We predict that the first one will be more trendy, and in the years to come multi-GigE.

Synology DiskStation DS620slim NAS Review

Synology DiskStation DS620slim Review – We've been itching to replace our huge file server in the office running a full-blown Linux OS with Samba. We also set it up as a domain controller so that everyone gets their own workspace and access to certain company's folders based on their roles in the...