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• Montago - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - link

  Yet again Synology is batshit crazy in their price model..
  
  Just imagine how far you can come with enterprise hardware from HP or DELL.. Or homebrew hardware..
  
  And in this pricerange you even start to afford a real server operating system..

• IdBuRnS - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - link

  Yet, Synologys are almost idiot-proof to setup for a small business or home office environment.

• Jammrock - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - link

  This is actually reasonable for a flexible 8-bay solution. Crazy priced is Drobo territory.

• imaheadcase - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - link

  The price is not the issue, its ease of use. That is exactly what small business wants and is why SYnology is very popular.

• mpbrede - Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - link

  I believe a substantial portion of the cost is the DSM software, which are excellent.

• shelbystripes - Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - link

  I don't consider the price that crazy, but just like with the DS415+, I'm really disappointed they didn't provide ECC RAM, given that the SoC they're using supports it.

• mpbrede - Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - link

  In this article you mention that the Synology DS415_ can attach one DX513 Expansion chassis.
  
  Neither the Synology website specifications, nor the actual DS415+ review mention the possibility of an expansion chassis.

• shelbystripes - Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - link

  Check the Synology page for the DX513 itself. Under specifications, for supported models it says, and I quote:
  
  "DS415+ (as external storage only)"
  
  This is consistent with other DS4 or DS2 models which have an eSATA port. You can connect the expansion chassis, but you don't get the full set of features and functionality you get from a DS7/DS15/DS18 model. Most notably, you don't get single volume spanning, which is what was mentioned in the DS415+ review.
  
  It's not clear if you were being passive aggressive or just being terrible at asking why people think the DS415+ supports the expansion chassis at all. Either way, it does, and people know because Synology says so.

• mpbrede - Thursday, November 6, 2014 - link

  Perhaps I'm terrible at asking questions. However, attaching the DX513 via eSATA is terrible in terms of functionality or expansion of the capacity of theprimary Synology unit.
  
  It is also counter-intuitive (at least to me) if I read the specifications of one unit (the DS415+) to have to guess which other units I have to research for external storage if the DS415+ does not mention that it supports additional units - but that's just me having issues with Synology's way of documenting things.

• State of Affairs - Friday, November 7, 2014 - link

  No option for ECC memory? No file system to prevent bit-rot (e.g., ZFS, btrfs)? At this price level, Synology is completely nutty.

• cooper123 - Sunday, August 14, 2016 - link

  DS1815+ slot 7 and slot 8 only SATA I / 1.5 Gbps
  if you build RAID or use SSD cache with slot 7 and slot 8,will run in very poor performance
  Synology had confirmed DS415+、DS1515+ and DS1815+ all have SATA speed problem
  
  https://www.synology.com/zh-tw/knowledgebase/DSM/t...
  
  this page is now only chinese version for Taiwan user