NAS Explained
Synology DS620slim
The Synology DS620slim can house six hard drives or SSDs at 2.5" while being compatible with SSD caching to handle all extra File IO if you do decide to add HDDs. This NAS unit is tied to two Gigabit Ethernet jacks, meaning 1000 / 8 minus QOS and random overhead like error-correction is roughly a maximum of 100 to 120 MB/sec on a single Gigabit Ethernet connection. The processor used is the Celeron J3355 dual-core at 2.0 GHz with a burst up to 2.5 GHz.
Apollo Lake Celly in its tummy
- Video decode hardware acceleration including support for HEVC (H.265), H.264, MVC, VP8, VP9, MPEG2, VC-1, WMV9, JPEG/MJPEG.
- Video encode hardware acceleration including support for HEVC (H.265), H.264, MVC, VP8, VP9, JPEG/MJPEG.
Goldmont / Apollo lake SoC die
The storage volume(s), these can be set up in Single disk, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10. Once you have installed your hardware, you'll need to bind the NAS to your Ethernet with (preferably) a CAT5e cable to a compatible switch; the NAS offers more connectors though including USB 3.1 Gen 1. When you have your HDDs installed, and the device connected through your PC you'll need to start-up a software suite to bind and set up your configuration. Simply use a smartphone app like FING and scan the network, the NAS will show up with a corresponding IP. Type the IP into your browser and you can start setting up the unit.
- CPU: Intel Celeron J3355 Processor
- Memory: 2GB DDR4
- Memory Expandable up to: 6GB
- HDD:65 x SATA3 6Gb/s; 2.5" HDD/SSD
- Expansion: USB 3.1 Gen-1 x2
- Network: Gigabit Ethernet x 2;
- Power Supply Unit / Adapter: 120W x1
- Input Power Voltage: 100V to 240V AC
- Certification: FCC, CE, VCCI, BSMI, C-TICK
Operating system compatibility wise the NAS supports file sharing across Linux, UNIX, Mac, and Windows platforms. We will be testing with Windows 8.1 and 10. Also for the more advanced among you, Windows AD (Active Directory) is supported to help create an easy-to-access environment. SSH login and web page SSL login enables users to transfer, store, and share data securely. Since this product acts as a server, ALL PC's within your network can connect to it, with or without access rights.
| File Storage Capacity by Bits and Bytes | ||||
| Byte | Kilobyte | Megabyte | Gigabyte | |
| Kilobyte | 1,024 | 1 | 1,024 | 1,048,576 |
| Megabyte | 1,048,576 | 1,024 | 1 | 1,024 |
| Gigabyte | 1,073,741,824 | 1,048,576 | 1,024 | 1 |
| Terabyte | 1,099,511,627,776 | 1,073,741,824 | 1,048,576 | 1,024 |
| Petabyte | 1,125,899,906,842,620 | 1,099,511,627,776 | 1,073,741,824 | 1,048,576 |
| Exabyte | 1,152,921,504,606,850,000 | 1,125,899,906,842,620 | 1,099,511,627,776 | 1,073,741,824 |
| Zettabyte | 1,180,591,620,717,410,000,000 | 1,152,921,504,606,850,000 | 1,125,899,906,842,620 | 1,099,511,627,776 |
So we passed the Terabyte marker. With our hefty demand in storage capabilities, the industry had to constantly adapt and introduce new features in hardware. Storage units got much bigger in volume over the year, 16 TB HDDs have just been introduced onto the market with higher TB HDDs already in the pipeline. In that line of storage solutions, there is one product series growing fast and now reaching SOHO and consumer based markets. They are called NAS units, Network Attached Storage. And there has been a lot of development in these nifty little boxes. Pretty much they are little servers that can hook onto your network and then function as file-servers. The NAS units are often small, do not use a lot of power compared to, say, your PC, but they are highly configurable, offer redundancy as some models can even handle RAID internally. Network Attachable Storage units are among the most advanced home servers available on the market today. Products feature multiple HDD setups, partitions, RAID, USER and USERGROUP based access, FTP, web server, MySQL, hot-swappable drives; these are just some of the features that a NAS unit can handle. And though expensive, a product like this is just too darn handy when it comes to file-storage and management over your network.
