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Today Synology is releasing their first DSx14 series products and on hand is the DS414, the successor to the highly popular DS413. The DS414 is Synology’s newest 4-bay DiskStation. It uses the same popular design as its predecessor with a few handy upgrades. The hardware side of things has been completely overhauled and now includes a much faster processor...
Synology announced their latest generation DSx14 series of network attached storage devices on October 22nd 2013 with the release of the DS114, DS414 and DS214play. The single bay DS114 and four bay DS414 are geared towards the SOHO/SMB users and are essentially replacements for the DS113 and DS413.
The DS214play, which we will bring you a review on in the future, is potentially an entirely new product category for Synology. This product features a chipset dedicated to transcoding 1080p video, making it the ultimate HTPC replacement. It supports the majority of popular video codecs and it does so with minimal CPU overhead. Allowing the DS214play to continue to be an accomplished storage/server solution while simultaneously being a media server. The DS414 that we are reviewing today will be replacing one of our favorite 4-bay NAS devices, the DS413. Based upon the same proven design as its predecessor, there are just a few minor modifications. The hot-swappable bays now include Synology's new tool-less drive caddies which make installing and replacing drives easy. The DS414 further succeeds the DS413, by upgrading its dual-core processor to 1.33Ghz and adding an integrated FPU. The enhanced processing power should improve multitasking performance, while Synology says it also speeds up thumbnail generation for faster document previews.
 Also featured in this review are the new WD Red 4TB hard drives. Along with RAID, and redundant fans, the DS414 now includes two gigabit NICs for failover, and link aggregation; making productive uptime the central design philosophy of the DS414. “The DS114, and DS414 are valuable updates to the DiskStation family,” said Thadd Weil, public relations manager at Synology America Corp. “As computers continue to ship with less internal storage, now is the perfect time for businesses to expand their overall data capacity with Synology's robust line of network attached storage solutions." With all that in mind let’s move on to check the new Synology DS414 out in greater detail... |
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Happy |
Posted on: 10/23/2013 02:28 AM
Fantastic I have been waiting for this and I am so happy you actually went to the effort of showing the internals and explain which CPU has been used. Great review and great product I can’t wait to upgrade my old DS412. |
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peppy |
Posted on: 10/23/2013 10:23 AM
Time for an upgrade I guess. |
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ProX |
Posted on: 10/23/2013 12:24 PM
Nice review once again! Nice step up from the previous model but I am keen to see how the upcoming Synology Intel Atom CE5335 versions perform. |
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efha |
Posted on: 11/08/2013 10:18 AM
Hi, could u please test the eSata port on the mainboard? There is on but without breakthrough the plastic. thx |
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Jason |
Posted on: 01/01/2014 06:57 PM
What does the lack of "on chip transcoding" mean? How will it affect a home user that may want to stream videos from a NAS box to a smart TV or to a tablet or other computers?? |
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NASFAN |
Posted on: 01/03/2014 07:06 PM
the ARM CPU based Synology DiskStations do NOT support HFS+ write (only read) just in case you have a Mac environment. Personally, I have the DS412+ (Atom based) and am very happy with it. |