Manufacturer: Synology Price: $ 1380 US Author: Steven Walton Date: 05/12/2015

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Today we have the second most expensive Synology DiskStation on hand, the DS2015xs. Powered by an Annapurna Labs Alpine AL-514 quad-core SoC, we are keen to see how well the DS2015xs performs. Out of the box the DS2015xs can handle eight hard drives, giving it a maximum capacity of 48TB, while the addition of the DX1215 expansion unit boosts capacity to a whopping 120TB... Last month we checked out the latest Synology flagship desktop NAS server, the DS3615xs. This large business scale NAS is powered by a Haswell based Core i3-4130 processor featuring 4GB of RAM. Additionally the DS3615xs provided a PCI Express expansion slot allowing the unit to support 10GbE upgrades. Boasting a massive maximum storage capacity of 216TB and an asking price of $3000, the DS3615xs is in a class of its own. As good as the DS3615xs is, that price can place it out of reach for some businesses. Additionally, over 200TB’s of storage from a single server may not be required. Therefore Synology has developed the DS2015xs, which at just $1380 is considerably more affordable than the DS3615xs. Performance wise we are still expecting the DS2015xs to be very competitive and this model has a unique feature that we hope will become a standard for high-cost NAS servers. The DS2015xs implements 10GbE SFP+ networking as standard and this is the first desktop NAS that we have reviewed to do so. Ideally we would have preferred the more cost effective 10GBase-T be included, the same interface that was used by the recently reviewed Asrock X99 WS-E/10G motherboard. That said, 10GbE SFP+ adapter cards are plentiful, certainly more so than 10GBase-T right now, though we do expect that to change in the very near future. Synology’s previous 8-bay model, the DS1813+, which we reviewed back in 2013 initially retailed for $1100 though with today’s 6TB hard drives it would only offer a maximum 78TB storage capacity. Additionally it only came loaded with 2GB of memory and was limited to Gigabit networking. The DS2015xs is then a huge upgrade that likely warrants the 25% increase in asking price. That said, let’s take a closer look to see what the DS2015xs has to offer...

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ike	Posted on: 05/14/2015 09:29 AM Thank you this is for me.

humpty

Posted on: 05/15/2015 08:16 AM 10GBase-T needs to become standard.

Impervious

Posted on: 05/21/2015 11:06 AM I just ordered mine, had been waiting for stock for a few weeks so I can't wait