Gone are the days when we used to save them on pen drives — the size of files being generated is pretty huge today.Each bay has a lever that needs to be pulled outwards from below to detach (and lock when inserting) itself, apart from having a secure lock so that they are not accidentally pulled out when in operation.Rating: Verdict: Synology’s Diskmanager OS makes it very simple for any user to setup servers such as Web, DNS, Email, FTP, Video, Photo and many more.54x7. The brand is well-known for networking products and the Diskstation DS918+ is something that we got our hands on this month. The NAS is a simple network server that can be set up with 1 to 4 hard drives, in less than 15 minutes.Build:The Diskstation DS918+ is a simple, square, all-black box, about the size of a small toaster. Deploying cloud-based storage may be convenient and secure, but the price you pay for it is not as practical as you think.Two Gigabit Ethernet ports, one eSATA, one USB 3.0 and a power socket are what you will see back there.3kg without the drives.

With tons of data each person makes each year, the only possible storage area option left is your laptop or PC at home or office. It has a matte-finished plastic exterior, with absolutely no movable parts, except for the four hot-swappable drive bays up front.Each home or office produces loads of data today. The drive bays can host up to four hard drives or SSDs. So imagine your own private and secure cloud service on your home or office network and at the highest speeds required that can store your office documents, save your backups, stream up to 4K movies, playback your music, host your website and FTP servers, and much more. However, they are limited in space too. Take for example a simple smartphone’s camera which blocks around 12MB of data for a single high-resolution photo. Storing your movies and videos, music and photos in one location and easy access is what a NAS can offer. Now with multiple pics being snapped to numerous movies and music files on each phone itself, backing up to pen drives is probably impractical, leave alone expensive and slow. You can build a NAS using a PC or laptop, but these are temporary solutions and will require you to keep the computer on at all times.

Each drive bay is made of hard plastic, is lockable and the entire assembly is completely tool-less — meaning you won’t need a screwdriver to get this baby up and running. The front panel has five LEDs — one for status and four for each drive installed in the system. With the DS918+, you can run your own internet website (or intranet website), FTP services, media streaming servers, CCTV surveillance system and a lot more, at home or office.78 inches (WHD) and weighs just 2.Cons: Plastic drive bays, no proper marking of drive numbers on each bay, provision of backup button for quick USB backup on front panel, non-standard power brick, HDMI option for direct media playback could have added more value to the product. Saving to the cloud is the next big move but that needs a huge broadband connection, which could add to the plastic injection machine Suppliers costs, apart from buying online storage.0 port for quick access to transfer data from pen drives or external storage drives.

Two large exhaust fans help cool the internals, which draws the air from intake vents between the four hard drives in the front. These four hard drives snugly fit on a metal frame, attaching themselves to the internal motherboard’s SATA ports. So how do you ensure your data is safe, can be shared and also remotely accessed? One and probably the only practical and cheap solution is to deploy a network storage at home or office.Pros: Built-in M. Included in the DS918+ box is the DiskStation DS918+ unit, a power adapter with cord, two Ethernet cables and a set of drive locking keys. The single, backlit power button upfront makes up for all the controls on this NAS, and the rest of the controls are available using the network, via any web browser. The DS918+ measures 6. Also here available is a USB 3. Prices will increase accordingly depending on the number of, capacity and type of hard drives you wish to add to the NAS.83x8. We recommend this network storage server for those who wich to build a powerful, scalable and easy to user mini server for their home or office.Bring home (or office) the NAS, hook up some drives, click through some magical settings and voila, within minutes you can have your own super-cheap and super-convenient cloud storage right at home.2 NVMe SSD slots for cache expansion, ease of SODIMM memory slot access, Ease of use and configuration, 2-channel 4K transcoding availability, hardware encryption, apps for added functionality as and when needed, highly affordable. NAS devices are basically meant for 24x7 operations, run on minimum software (no s/w licenses required either), are robust and can host multiple services for almost the fraction of the cost. The rear panel has the main business end.Synology is not a new name in the industry. The Synology Diskstation DS918+ network storage barebone server is presently available for a retail price of Rs 79,817 in India. The tiny black box can work wonders if configured to the brim and serve you with a host of services, right from website to video streaming. If you have a similar issue at an office, then sharing and speed is the biggest concern. Sadly, there are no dust protection filters here, so one has to make sure that the DS918+ is positioned in a clean and cool environment.Having a centralised storage is a necessity today. The 120mm cooling fans operate automatically for efficient cooling and can be set between quiet operation, automatic and high cooling on manual modes

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