Synology DiskStation DS423+

The DS423+ has attractive small business features and a good price, with only a lack of 2.5GbE holding it back

SCORE PRICE £396 (£475 inc VAT) from ballicom.co.uk Synology’s DiskStation DS423+ is a home and small office NAS, offering four SATA drive bays, and supporting up to a whopping 72TB of storage. With a Celeron J4125 processor and 2GB of RAM, it’s similarly specified to the two-bay DS224+ (see p92). Unfortunately, that extends to its dual gigabit Ethernet ports, which look like a mis-step when many competitors now offer 2.5GbE. Synology hasn’t been overly generous when it comes to other ports, either. You won’t find HDMI here, and there are only two USB-A 3.2 ports – and they’re the slower, 5Gbits/sec Gen 1. The DS423+ does have a trick up its sleeve in the shape of two NVMe SSD slots. Drives in these can be configured as a cache for hard disk volumes,…

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