![]() The DS416 is naturally powered by DiskStation Manager (DSM), the award-winning operating system from Synology. ![]() When the system detects a fan failure, the built-in redundancy mechanism ensures continuous operation until the replacement fan arrives. The DS416 incorporates a passive cooling design on the actual components and only uses two 92mm fans on the rear to keep everything at an optimal temperature. The drive bays aren’t the only thing that you can swap out in this NAS, the fans are also redundant. The drive bays are covered by a removable front plate that gives the NAS a cleaner overall look by hiding away the drives. The latter is a rare occurrence anyway and shouldn’t be anything to bother anyone. The drive bays feature a convenient tool-free drive installation for 3.5-inch drives where as you still need screws to mount 2.5-inch drives. Those figures naturally depend on what hard disk drives you use as well as the method of data access and your network setup. With powerful hardware like that, the DS416 is able to deliver an average reading and writing speeds of 220 MB/s and 140 MB/s respectively while encrypted file transfers come in at an evenly impressive 146 MB/s reading and 65 MB/s writing. The DS416 also features three USB 3.0 ports where one of them is conveniently placed on the front of the NAS for easy access. It features dual Gigabit Ethernet network that supports all types of failover and link aggregation, allowing you to keep your system connected under heavier load or when one connection should fail. The DS416 is a full-fledged NAS that comes with everything you’d want from a performance system. The CPU is backed by 1GB DDR3 memory that sadly isn’t upgradable. Today I’m taking Synology’s DiskStation DS416, a 4-bay feature-rich and high-performance NAS server, for a spin on my test bench. The Synology DiskStation DS416 is built around an Annapurna Labs Alpine AL-212 32-bit dual-core CPU with 1.4GHz, floating point unit, and hardware encryption engine. ![]() I’ve taken a look at quite a few 2-bay NAS units lately and while they already allow for an impressive 16TB raw storage, that might not be enough for everyone. ![]()
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