Synology DS1515+ or DS916+

RSR · 16 Nov 2016 at 12:43

Hey All,

I've been looking at these Synology NAS's for a while now as ive not been sure which ones to go for but I believe ive narrowed it down to the following:

Synology DS1515+
Synology DS916+ (8GB)

Its mostly going to be used for storage but it will also be used for iSCSI / Sickbeard / SABnzb / Onedrive Sync etc... As I can remove these tasks from a VM I currently use.

Does anyone have ether of these and what are your thoughts between these two?

bledd · 16 Nov 2016 at 13:04

Main differences..

916+ has H265 hardware transcoding.
1515+ has an extra drive bay.

Personally, I think I'd be tempted by the 1515+ and using the 5th bay as an SSD cache.

zoomee · 16 Nov 2016 at 15:10

What bledd says

Basically 916+ is a four bay device designed with multimedia in mind (H265 is 4k de-coding) approx £500 - aimed at home users.

1815+ is a 5 bay model costing approx £600. - Also has an additional two NIC's making a total of 4 ports with the cpu supporting AES-NI (better for encryption) - aimed at business/power users.

Other points to bear in mind is that the 1815+ is a 2015 model - meaning it will likely go out of support a year quicker than the 916+ - but then again we never can tell with synology!

bledd · 16 Nov 2016 at 16:44

Also don't forget to get (a) backup drive(s) for your data. A UPS with USB connection is a good idea too.

Yet to be let down by one, have had the odd disk failure, but so far 100% success rate in RAID rebuilds. They take a long time though. Looking at 60 hours+ typically. Data is accessible during this time and you can still write to it.

RSR · 16 Nov 2016 at 17:13

That's excellent, thanks chaps. It seems the best choice is the DS1515+ unless there is a 1517+ on the horizon soon.

Combat Fighter · 17 Nov 2016 at 12:28

My Synology DS415+ is one of the best bit's of kit I've bought. It's so useful and like others have said make sure you have a separate backup HD connected to it and your all set.