Synology DiskStation DS218play 2-bay NAS

Get your team a secure, efficient way to store data with Synology's DS218PLAY desktop NAS. Different from normal external hard drives, the NAS (network-attached storage) device can be directly integrated into your network. This gives all computers connected to your network access to the device and data. It offers you over enough storage space and uses much less power than regular PCs. The desktop NAS device has a Gigabit Ethernet port and is equipped with a 4-core 1.4 GHz processor. With this model's 1 GB of RAM several users can access its data at the same time. This desktop NAS system has the following data storage forms available: JBOD, 1 and 0. JBOD (or "just a bunch of disks") allows you to connect hard drives of various sizes to create a multi-drive storage system. Unlike RAID levels, you will not lose any storage capacity of the various drives you combine.

Using RAID 0 means your hard drives (ideally of equal storage capacities) are interconnected and work parallely. This increases performance and speed as the work is split bewteen multiple drives, but there is no fault tolerance. When using RAID 1 your data will be mirrored from one drive to another so that if one fails you will not lose any information. This fault tolerance also means that your total drive storage capacity is halved due to duplicated content. For smaller NAS systems RAID 1 is an ideal option.

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