Synology DS419slim Review: Up to 20TB NAS in the palm of your hand

Synology's new DS419slim offers 4-drive RAID storage in a small, powerful package.

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[allansh]

omg, I've been waiting for the updated version of DS416 slim for years!

[behnamkiani]

Thank you so much, i am worry about data safety and durablility and raid system if available, and if it is good option to completly replace external hard drive

[Mesatallic]

Don’t know why Synology only insist on 1Gb Ethernet @ 125MB/s. They then advertise you use fast SSD @ 520MB/s and RAID SSD’s which require 10GbE Ethernet @ 1250MB/s

[allansh]

Damn, still no 10GigE or USB-C? Why even bother updating it?

[jpdj]

I have 6 "slim" Synologys. All run RAID levels. I started with RAID 1 which gives fastest I/O, but migrate to RAID 5 which has bit scrubbing and can protect against spontaneous bit flips. One device holds live data that is used, and replicates changes to a second that runs a time capsule like service and replicates to a 3rd off-site.
Very reliable, except for the wall wart power supply. Extremely low power consumption. Expect performance to drop when a second user is active concurrently. I don't team the Ethernet ports but keep a separate network for replicatio. That gives half the write speed. A big fat NAS may have more performance per port. But placing data across a few ones is better and has higher availability. My oldest is one 409slim that still runs. Its NAS OS, DSM, does not get updates anymore, but it is the endpoint in a chain of protection against data loss. The others, 411slim, 414slim and 416slim still have updates. I once installed Odoo on one of them, but would not advise it as the database performance is really slow.

[mcmc]

Would the Synology 4 bay NAS DiskStation DS418 be enough power to stream 4k movie to 2 tv's at sametime?

[andersandersen]

Marvell ARMADA 8020 should have been an added option, but in classic Synology fashion they updated their product with outdated hardware again.
This could have been a great nas for business, photo, video travelers and so forth with the 8020.

[chrisbullock]

would of preferred to see write/read speeds knowing what type of hard drives are being used, (Mechanica vs SSD) and over network speeds.

[Alilbas]

512 Mb not up-gradable. I am not sure that will give a lot of flexibility