Synology Disk Station DS412+

Overview

The Synology Disk Station DS412+ delivers 182.66 MB/sec writing speed under RAID 5 configuration in Windows OS, and 205.48 MB/sec reading1. It features USB 3.0 support, Hot-swappable Hard Drive Design and 2 LAN with Failover and Link Aggregation Support.

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 4 expert reviews

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4
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Last revision on June 10, 2014

Reviewers Liked

Good price compared to the competition
Strong CPU (for a NAS)
Support for four, hotswap, disks
Lots of features
Intuitive and windowed operating system
High transfer speeds
Dual Gigabit Ethernet NICs
USB 3.0 compatibility
Ability to skip disk check

Reviewers Didn't Like

HDD trays are not numbered
Plastic casing
Only one SODIMM slot and it is hard to reach
Cannot format an external disk to NTFS
Not ErP Lot 6 compliant
Not compatible with all USB 3.0 external cases/disks
Short warranty

Expert reviews and ratings

Synology's four-bay DiskStation DS412+ has everything you could possibly want in a network storage device: it's expandable, fast, and has a variety of apps that are genuinely useful. Its premium price means it's best suited to a small...

By Good Gear Guide on July 23, 2012

Synology DiskStation DS412+ makes an excellent NAS server for advanced home and small-office...

By cnet on July 12, 2012

All in all the DS412+ left me satisfied with its performance, high reliability and especially its nice operating system, which is very easy to use even for inexperienced users. The NAS proved to be astonishingly fast even in RAID 1 mode and surpassed...

By techPowerUp! on July 05, 2012

The jump from Intel's Atom D510 to the Atom D525 was really just a minor update that didn't generate any large (or even noticeable) improvements in storage server performance. Refreshed models serving up extra throughput could have certainly...

By Tom's Hardware on October 17, 2012

The Synology DS-412+ can replace a server in some businesses and remove the need for a high level technical resource. With file share with full access control, impose disk quota at a granular level, support for users, groups, printer sharing,...

By DigitalReviews on July 22, 2012

There is no questioning the performance of the new DS412+, as the dual-core Atom 2.13GHz processor allowed it to hang with some of the fastest units we have tested. The DS412+ had no trouble matching the performance of the bigger and more expensive...

By Legion Hardware on June 18, 2012

The power consumption of DS412+ is claimed to be 15-44W, the data fluctuate greatly due to different matched HDDs. In our test, we installed two Western Digital WD7500AYYS 750GB enterprise HDDs, installing RAID 0 system. DS412+ power managementWhen...

By Expreview on April 01, 2012

The DS412+ NAS from Synology has a lot of similarities on the exterior when comparing it with the previously reviewed DS212 model, but this stops here; the product is dedicated to Small and Medium Business, so the manufacturer saw fit to remove the...

By MadShrimps on March 20, 2012

Both QNAP and Synology provided us with a unit from their high-end SMB NAS lineup. In this review we will be comparing both units both on hardware performance as software functionality. Synology’s key features: 205.68 MB/sec Reading, 182.66 MB/sec...

By Akihabara News on January 01, 2005

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Synology Incorporated, nasce nell'Aprile del 2000 a Taiwan, ed è uno dei maggiori produttori di soluzioni NAS per SOHO e SMB/SME. Quest'azienda, si pone come critical mission, lo sviluppo e la realizzazione di prodotti che offrano il...

By insidehardware.it on June 03, 2012

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