Synology has a new NAS on offer for anyone who wants to accommodate five hard drives: the DS1019+.
The new model comes with a hardware transcoding engine compared to the DS1517+ and can transcode H.264, H.265 and older codecs in 4K. It also has 8 GB RAM. Also very handy for speeding up accesses: It is possible to install two NVMe SSDs as cache parallel to the mechanical hard disks. With this you can currently store 70 TB in the NAS (5x 14 TB disks). If you connect an expansion module with another five slots, you can double the capacity.
As usual, there are also USB 3.0 ports for connecting external drives and two Gigabit ports that support link aggregation. The power consumption in idle mode has also been reduced, it’s now just over 13 watts in standby and just under 40 watts for accesses.
Buy on Amazon: Synology DS1019+
