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Storage is something that everyone needs. No matter if you are a single end user or a gigantic corporation you have to have a place to keep your data. This one little fact has never changed and probably never will. The difference is that home users are now higher on the scale when it comes to storage needs than many small and medium sized business. Home users are maintain more and more data in the form of movies, music pictures and even installation files while many small businesses are only storing simple documents and perhaps a few databases. It has changed the dynamic in the way storage products are marketed in many ways and this is not truly a completely good thing. While a normal consumer might store more information than a small business they do not have the same need to never be offline or unavailable. The typical home user also does not have the same number of connections to their data as a medium or even small business. There needs to be a class of NAS that can handle these requirements without pushing the price tag over the top. Synology has a very solid answer for these questions and more all bundled up inside the new DS1513+; this is a five-bay NAS that includes four 1Gbps LAN and a ton of other features. Let’s dive in and take a look shall we?
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The Box and Goodies -
Like other Synology products the box that the DS1513+ ships in is fairly plain. It looks like they print all of their boxes at one time and differentiate them through the use of product stickers. This is a good way to save money on the packaging without compromising on its quality. Inside the box the DS1513+ is secure for shipping. Synology have put it inside a thick bag and then inside two large dense foam pads.
After you pull everything out will find almost everything you need to get your DS1513+ running. The exceptions are you only get two Cat 5 cables and there is no utilities disk. You will need to hard over to Synology’s website to grab the installation utility so you can identify and configure the DS1513+ on your network. The lack of this disk is not a big concern as many companies are moving away from install DVDs in products like this. By removing this it helps reduce overall costs and also ensures that customers are getting the latest version of any drivers or utilities. Synology included a welcome card that includes the URL to find and configure your DS1513+ (find.synology.com) what to do if you do not have outside internet connectivity.
