Synology Presents DiskStation DS414

Synology Inc. launched DiskStation DS414, an advancement and offerings of technology among its NAS Value Series to support task-intensive SMB.

Following the announcement comes DS114, the compact and versatile unit that promises personal users to get the most with least investment.

“A little extra, gets you the best. DS414 and DS114 greatly advanced Synology product portfolio regarding its dedications to bring the best overall experience,” said Michael Wang, product manager, Synology “Through this expansion, we help our customers transform IT infrastructure from a cost center to an asset for innovation and success.”

Addressing the business needs of SMB pursuing reasonable TCO and IT agility, it is a step forward considering the hardware specifications among Synology Value Series. Featuring dual core 1.33 GHz CPU with floating-point unit, 1GB RAM, dual LAN, two USB 3.0 ports and tool-less HDD trays, it stands out as one of the values in 4-bay NAS devices available. To ensure services uptime, it is equipped with dual LAN network failover support to maximize system availability. With link aggregation enabled, it achieves over 135.63MB/s writing speed under RAID-5 configuration in a Windows environment, and over 207.07MB/s reading.

It’s a compact NAS aiming at small business and home users, as a one-bay value model, it delivers R/W performance – over 108.32MB/s reading speed and 71.83MB/s writing speed in a Windows environment. With DDR3 512MB RAM, twice the size of its predecessor, DS114 exhibits a boost in multi-tasking performance. It also comes with two USB 3.0 interfaces with up to 5Gb/s transmission speed, and an eSATA interface to power an external HDD. In spite of its size, it is versatile as it shares the reservoir of applications available in DSM Package Center.

Both run on DSM 4.3, which provides features to boost user-productivity and simplify their tasks, all on a sleek user interface optimized for multitasking. The company was honored with 2013 PCMag Business Choice Award and received the highest rating in every element of the survey, including reliability, overall satisfaction, value, and likelihood to recommend.

DiskStation DS414 and DS114 are shipping.