Synology Announces Inexpensive-ish Four Bay NAS

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Tim Higgins

Synology logoSynology has added a four-bay offering to its home NAS line.

The Synology DiskStation DS413j is based on a 1.6 GHz Marvell mv6282 Kirkwood CPU with 512 MB of DDR3 RAM. It takes four 2.5" or 3.5" SATA drives up to 4 TB capacity that are not hot-swappable.

Network connection is via a single 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet port and there are two USB 2.0 ports for attached backup and print serving.

Storage can be configured in multiple EXT4 formatted volumes using Synology Hybrid RAID, Basic, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1 options.

Synology DiskStation DS413j

Synology DiskStation DS413j

Like all Synology NASes, the DS413j runs Synology’s DiskStation Manager OS that includes Synology’s Cloud Station remote file sync feature, ADS integration, ACL support, up to 10 iSCSI targets and iTunes and DLNA media servers. Since the product is intended for home use VMWare, Citrix and Microsoft Hyper-V compliance is not supported.

The DS413j is shipping now at street pricing currently as low as $380.

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