That territory is also now home to Synology's latest DiskStation, the DS1515, which we have in-house for review. Granted, that amount of cash buys a capable Annapurna Labs quad-core SoC, 2GB of DDR3 memory, five bays, dual USB 3.0 and eSATA along with quad 1GbE LAN supporting Link Aggregation and Failover.įor around the same price there are other alternatives such as the Seagate STDF100 ($600), Asustor AS-604T ($600) and QNAP TS-651 ($550 1GB or $700 4GB) and the TS-653 Pro ($770). The quad-core Cortex-A15 clocked at 1.7GHz was a beast, delivering the best SoC performance we've seen.Īs a large scale business NAS, the DS2015xs was priced at $1,500, a sum few home users could justify.

Going against that trend was the DS2015xs, announced late last year and equipped with a high-end ARM processor from Annapurna Labs. The DS415play was built around Intel's Atom CE5335 and to date the majority of the DSx15 series has an Atom SoC inside – the DS415+, DS1515+ and DS1815+ for example all feature the Atom C2538. Synology's DSx15 series began rolling out about a year ago now with initial models including the affordable DS415play, a multimedia NAS designed to allow home users to centralize their videos, photos, and music in one place. 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. The DiskStation DS1515 is aimed at home users as well as small businesses.

Synology ds1515 visio stencils