We filled our test unit's tool-free drive sleds with five 6TB drives running Synology's Hybrid RAID (Opens in a new window), which lets you mix drives of different capacities without wasting space. Capable of holding up to 40TB of data (with five 8TB drives) or scaling up to 120TB (with two of Synology's optional DX513 expansion units plugged into the eSATA ports on the back panel), the DS1515+ ( at Amazon) (Opens in a new window) specializes in rapid access to securely encrypted folders, using the hardware encryption engine built into its quad-core Intel Atom CPU.Īnd as far as RAID choices go, you can populate the DS1515+ with drives and configure RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, or JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks) as you like. It's not for newbies, but the five-bay Synology DiskStation DS1515+ ($799.99 without drives) is a formidable network-attached storage (NAS) solution for small to medium-size businesses (SMB) with enterprise aspirations.

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