The Synology DS413 is a NAS with 4-bay drive
improved from basic DS413j, but has most of the DS412+ features, looks similar
and more powerful at lower price. Instead of ARM processors, which are cheaper
and run cooler than the low power Intel Atom, Synology has selected Freescale
RISC processor. Chips require less cooling and improve power saving - the key
for one product always open. The disadvantage is the reduced file serving
power, especially in write performance. However, the performance gap is
closing.
Synology
Diskstation
Features
Like DS412 +, DS413 with front visor is covered
the new drive bay. Also in the front is a USB 2.0 port for data transmission or
add capacity, but expansion is best handled by two USB 3.0 ports in the rear,
or only an eSATA port. There are useful 1GB of memory, network connections are
made via only gigabit port, and is cooled by two quiet 92mm fans.
Surface
Although nearly all of the plastic frame
which does not have the quality feel of QNAP, for example, it is very good at
containing noise.
Synology DiskStation Manager 4.1 Software
is powerful and rich environment. It's nimble and innovative than the standard.
As well as file serving over standard PC
protocols, such as SMB / CIFS, AFP and NFS, you can run the FTP server, iTunes
and print, and start UPnP media streaming.
Sinology provides many applications in the
Package Center. You will find applications such as Time Backup to sync Time
Machine, Download Station to download BitTorrent, Cloud Station for
cross-platform file synchronization and Surveillance Station for security IP
camera recording.
We found Download Station can not only handle
to download in the background with the timer schedule but also allows you to
search for torrent files in the application.
Two
fans
Cloud Station may prove indispensable,
allow you to automatically sync a folder on the NAS with 2 folders on Windows PC
or Mac. This occurs over an encrypted SSL to your peace of mind. However, the
single file is limited to 5GB, and you can’t copy the system file or
applications. Worse, if you move files from one folder to another folder in the
sync sub-folder, Cloud Station can find it is a new file and make copies,
resulting in additional network traffic unnecessarily.
Surveillance Station wants to become the
one-stop network video recorder to record footage from the security IP camera.
Maximum of 16 cameras from many famous brands can be tracked. However, Synology
licensing its software to allow you to view a feed camera, to see more, you'll
have to buy a license, cost around $67.5 / camera, and $255 for 4 cameras.
We have successfully configured Synology
DS413 to monitor and record feed 0f a Y-cam offsite camera. Ironically, for a
security camera, you must install the Java, which is one of the least safe
plug-in for modern PC.
Performance
DS413 is faster than NAS drive. Use four WD
Red 3TB hard drives is optimized for network storage, our best results in our
labs are recorded when using the ATTO test. We have witnessed continuous read
speed up to 115MBps and 91MBps write speed.
The more realistic figure was recorded by
using QuickBench via AFP tests, where the read speed for large files exceeds
the gigabit Ethernet limit (112MBps) while write speed is at maximum speed with
100MB data size.
Our energy consumption test is hampered by
a problem with the busy Windows network, preventing NAS from falling into a
deep sleep System Hibernation. As a temporary remedy, disabling System
Hibernation allowed the drives record slowly.
In full hibernate mode (disconnect the
network), it only consumes 3W, a low admirable figure. We measured 13W with no
activity hard drive while processors are still active. The idle consumption
with spinning drive is 25W.
Under load testing, DS413 with four Red WD
drives only consume 28W.
Verdict
DS413 sits comfortably between the entry-level
DS413j and lauded DS412+. New RISC processor provides more performance than NAS
drives are granted power by ARM with equivalent price, and low power
consumption make it a wisely economical choice. With comprehensive interface,
easy access and good performance, DS413 is worthy introduced.
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Design: 4/5
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Features: 4/5
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Performance: 3.5/5
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Value: 3/5
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Overall: 4/5
Price
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$499.5 (excluding VAT)
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$600 (including VAT)
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Specifications
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4-bay NAS drive
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DSM 4.1
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1067MHz Freescale P1022 dual-core RISC
processor
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Hardware encryption
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1GB DDR3 RAM
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1 gigabit ethernet
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2 USB 3.0
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1 USB 2.0
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1 eSATA
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2 92mm fans
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External power
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165 x 203 x 233 mm
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2.03kg (without discs) |
