Content Creation
For content creation, Intel have simulated access to via video creation applications. This is made up of 98 files with 12MB reads and 14MB writes in varying sizes of blocks. The activity is predominantly non-sequential with the majority of access time made up of writing to the drives. There are quiet periods of read/write activity interrupted with busy periods to present a difficult workload on the drives.
One of the very good NAS out in the market!!
The look and the performance is awesome.
Last but not least, good review as always, Chris. 🙂
The processor is a Single Core ARM 1.2 GHz with FPU and not a dual core 1.6 GHz as stated. http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/What_kind_of_CPU_does_my_NAS_have
“Nestled beside the CPU are two Hynix branded H5TQ2G83CFR 2GB RAM ICs.
This gives the DS213j a potential capacity of 4GB, however there is only
512MB available to the system to use.”
There is an obvious confusion between bit and byte here.
does the DS213j let you format drives individually cos I’m gonna add 2 drives 1 at a time.
I bought one of these (DS213J( just before Christmas 2013.
I use it for file storage, and transferred my mail server to it soon after.
Whilst it does absolutely everything it says on the tin, the only problem is Synology itself.
I had religiously upgraded the firmware every time a new version came out, and everything was fine until 3 months ago, when , after a firmware upgrade it started rebooting itself. At first the reboot was every couple of hours so it wasn’t a huge deal. Then after another firmware upgrade it became worse until it was continuously rebooting.
I raised a support request with synology very early on, and checked their forums. A lot of people had experienced this, but synology took the line that it must be a hardware problem. I went through the various hoops they set me, but the one thing they would not consider was that the firmware was causing the problem.
I upgraded it again last night and instantly the problem improved although it didn’t go away.
I would not buy another one of these, and I am considering asking for my money back if they don’t stop being in denial.