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Synology's DiskStation DS1513+ is a network-attached storage (NAS) appliance aimed at small-to-medium businesses (SMBs), designed to start off as a shared storage repository but scale with customer requirements to take on the role of mail server, VPN, web...
Flexible storage, expandable with extra apps, easy to add/remove disks, four Ethernet ports...
Drives not included in price, complex to configure...
The Synology DS1513+ is a very flexible network storage device that can be expanded to serve a wide variety of network functions, if required. However, this very flexibility may make the device too complex for some SMEs...
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With room for five disks, the DS1512+ is one of the more deluxe NAS models in Synology's line-up. Its successor, the DS1513+ looks exactly like it, aside from the additional two network ports in the back. If you put five 4TB hard disks in a five-disk N...
Like the DS1513+, the new DS1512+ is a capable and very user-friendly NAS with room for five hard disks, and expandable to fifteen disks. For building a large media library or a having versatile NAS in a business environment it's a great solution with l...
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Synology is well-known for their NAS solutions and today we are taking a closer look at the DS1513+. This NAS is aimed at small to medium businesses and comes equipped with an Intel Atom CPU, 2GB DDR3 and supports up to five 4TB hard drives.The DS15...
Excellent build quality, Strong performance, Easy to expand, Scalable solution...
It is almost no surprise that the DS1513+ is a great solution. Its pricing does put it in a tough spot when compared against the DS1813+...
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While many small businesses can work effectively with a two-bay NAS enclosure, such as the Budget Buy winning Synology DS213j, others require significantly more power or space. For those who need more storage capacity than a two-bay NAS enclosure provides...
This powerful and well-priced five-bay NAS is ideal for a business with serious storage requirements...
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If you need a powerful, expandable network storage device with more features than usual, Synology'sDiskStation 1513+ has an impressive specification.Five bays mean you can use RAID 6, so you won't be offline if one drive fails - and you won't lose data if...
Extremely powerful, Expandable, Four Ethernet ports let you improve bandwidth and add redundancy, No tools needed to fit 3.5" drives...
Complex, needs more network knowledge than many NAS devices, SMB 1 not disabled by default, Familiarity with Linux recommended, For full performance, you'll need to configure iSCSI...
The DiskStation 1513+ is a powerful NAS device, in terms of performance and features. It's a solid, well-built, professional piece of kit that can stand up to the rigours of office life. Other NAS control panels don't offer you this level of configurabil...
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You can use the eSATA ports to add two of Synology's DX513 five-bay expansion units. These push the total capacity to 60TB, and volume expansion makes it possible to expand existing RAID arrays onto any new disks.Disk loading is totally tool-free: the hot...
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techradar.com/au/ Updated: 2014-04-14 02:59:05
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If you need a powerful, expandable network storage device with more features than usual, Synology'sDiskStation 1513+ has an impressive specification.Five bays mean you can use RAID 6, so you won't be offline if one drive fails - and you won't lose data if...
Extremely powerful, Expandable, Four Ethernet ports let you improve bandwidth and add redundancy, No tools needed to fit 3.5" drives...
Complex, needs more network knowledge than many NAS devices, SMB 1 not disabled by default, Familiarity with Linux recommended, For full performance, you'll need to configure iSCSI...
The DiskStation 1513+ is a powerful NAS device, in terms of performance and features. It's a solid, well-built, professional piece of kit that can stand up to the rigours of office life. Other NAS control panels don't offer you this level of configurabil...
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Setting up the Synology NAS was comparatively easy — we simply dropped in two drives, plugged it into the network and booted it up. No discovery software was needed (or included), with Windows immediately detecting the NAS and letting us launch the web pa...
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Synology's DS1513+ is a 5-bay NAS drive, and in overall specification it is closer to the company's 8-bay DS1813+. These models are based on a broad matt black chassis and sport a plethora of USB, ethernet and eSATA connectors.From the front the unit look...
very fast, easy to learn interface...
jarring Windows 8like software interface, not the cheapest...
While the new DSM 5.0 software interface falls victim to the opinion-dividing but painfully trendy and jarring Windows 8 look, the essential performance and feature set of this Synology NAS drive lift it clear of all competitors. It is the most expensive...
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The DS1513+ has all the basic credentials that I need for it to be classed as a business level system so the real question now is, can it really deliver those promised levels of performance and still shine through as a class leader nearly a year since its release? That’s what we’re about to find out...
Quad-Ethernet ports, Option for a locking power cable, Scalable storage via DX513 expansion units, Upgradeable memory, Strong levels of performance throughout...
Drive locking system is rather basic, Including a locking power cable would be a bonus...
PricingSynology‘s DS1513+may be nearly a year old now, but it still has a very strong position in the market being the only 5-bay system in a desktop format to offer the ability to work with four Ethernet connections out of the box. Since its release its...
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