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For review we have the latest Synology DiskStation aimed at home users as well as small businesses, the DS1515. Powered by an Annapurna Labs Alpine AL-314 quad-core SoC, we are keen to see how well the DS1515 performs. Out of the box this NAS can handle five 3.5” hard drives, giving it a maximum capacity of 40TB using the latest 8TB drives, while the addition of two DX513 expansion units boosts capacity to a whopping 120TB... Synology began pushing out their latest DSx15 series almost a year ago now with the release of the DS415play, a multimedia NAS designed to allow home users to centralise their high-quality videos, photos, and music in one place.  The DS415play was built around Intel’s Atom CE5335 and to date the majority of the DSx15 series feature an Atom SoC, the DS415+, DS1515+ and DS1815+ for example all feature the Atom C2538. However going against that trend was the DS2015xs, announced late last year it was said to use a high-end ARM processor from Annapurna Labs. The Cortex-A15 quad-core processor clocked at 1.7GHz was a beast, delivering the best SoC performance we have seen. As a large scale business NAS the DS2015xs featured a price tag with serious bite at $1500, not exactly a home user product then. The DS1515 however intends on taking DS2015xs like-performance to home users, with a more affordable $650 price tag.  For that money users still get a very capable Annapurna Labs quad-core SoC, 2GB of DDR3 memory, 5-bays, dual USB 3.0 and eSATA along with quad 1GbE LAN supporting Link Aggregation and Failover. For around the same price there are a number of alternatives such as the Seagate STDF100 ($600), Asustor AS-604T ($600) and QNAP TS-651 ($550 1GB or $700 4GB) or TS-653 Pro ($770). The QNAP TS-651 looks to be the DS1515’s closest rival and as it so happens we have already benchmarked that particular NAS, so it will be interesting to see how they compare. |
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