It’s much quieter than some of the direct attached storage solutions that I’ve tried recently, and a quieter setup than the DS1817 that I tested a few months ago. Fans are audible, but hardly an annoyance, and although mechanical hard drives are being used, I could hardly tell unless I put my ear up to the box. Using these drives, when combined with the DS1618+’s Quiet mode setting, results in remarkably quiet operation. Synology provided me with a DS1618+ loaner unit and it came equipped with 4 x 4TB Seagate IronWolf NAS drives. This written tutorial assumes that you already have drives installed, and have a volume created from those drives. Synology’s DSM does a good job of walking you through the initial set up step-by-step. Before starting, you’ll need to go through the basic set up process for your NAS. There may be a few differences between various NAS versions, but the basic methodology of setting up Time Machine backups is the same. In this hands-on video, I show you how I use the DS1618+ as a quiet and reliable Time Machine backup solution. Others, perhaps those in corporate environments, like to use NAS setups as a storage solution for video editing.īut there is another key reason why you might want to consider a NAS, especially in light of Apple’s decision to abandon its AirPort and Time Capsule products - Time Machine backups. In household environments, they can act like a media server, storing high quality video rips for local streaming. There are many reasons why individuals and companies employ the use of NAS boxes. Such an addition makes the DS1618+ ideal for connecting to machines with 10 Gigabit Ethernet, such as the iMac Pro.
The DS1618+ features a PCIe 3.0 x8 expansion slot that can accommodate either an M.2 card for cache, or a 10GbE NIC for significantly faster throughput. What makes the DS1618+ particularly special is its expandability - and not just eSATA storage expandability that we usually associate with Synology products. This 6-bay machine comes with a quad-core 2.1GHz CPU, and 4GB of DDR4 non-ECC memory that can be upgraded to 32GB of ECC RAM. Synology just launched its newest prosumer NAS box, the DS1618+.
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