Synology, is a popular name when it comes to these NAS solutions and they are one of the pioneers in the industry, catering small business all the way up to enterprise solutions. That said, this time they have announced their next-generation 8-bay NAS for the Malaysian Market – the Synology DS1821+, designed for high-capacity and high-performance data management and storage.

Synology DS1821+

The DS1821+ happens to be the second Plus series NAS Storages right after the DS1621+ which was announced a while ago to house an AMD Ryzen Processor under the hood. It is a Quad Core Processor which claims to offer double the computing power over its predecessor, therefore offering much faster performance and giving that snappier experience from the user end with applications such as Synology Drive, Moments and so much more.

Just like some of their DiskStation, the Synology DS1821+ has built in support for 2 Synology SNV3400 NVMe SSD cache drives, which allows the DiskStation to do random throughput performance to be boosted by 20x or more for files and data that’s commonly accessed. Say if users what better networking performance, then consumers can opt in for the optional PCIe 10GbE NIC which helps reaching speeds over ~2300MB/s sequential reads and 1100~ MB/s write.

As for the choice of storages – well for one the DS1821+ provides 8 drive bays with the option to expand up to 18 with the use of 2 DX517 expansion units. With the help of Synology’s proprietary solution like Synology DiskStation Manager which, in addition to JBOD/RAID0/1/5/6/10, Synology Hybrid Raid allows the users to create arrays using odd-sized drives and still be able to maximize the storage potential of the array. This also enables older drives to be serviceable, without needing to install drives of the same capacity.

If you are wondering what the Synology DiskStation Manager is capable of, it gives easy ways of upgrading the storages even after the device is up and running. So, if you happen to add in a new drive, expand, there won’t be any sort of disruptions to the services or any need for going through a long manual process.

Consumers will not have to worry about security as Synology Backup and restoration solutions cover data protection for the data resting on the external devices and when stored on the DS1821+, made available through the Package Centre for free. For IT infrastructure protection, there is Active Backup Suite, Snapshot Replication for schedulable point-in time recovery points, Hyper Backup for schedulable “set-and-forger” protection to keep your data backed up to another Synology NAS, USB drive or Synology C2 Cloud Storage or anything for that matter.

Pricing and Availability

The Synology DS1821+ starts at RM 4,5XX onwards in Malaysia and you can purchase through official Synology Retailers. Click here to check out the listing on Shopee Malaysia.