If you buy your own hard drives, you can also create a Hybrid RAID setup that offers protection against the unlikely event that two hard drives fail at the same time. Hybrid RAID also makes it possible to add more hard drives to the RAID without having to rebuild it from scratch, meaning in the case of the DS412+ you can start with two hard drives and then later add two more, possibly of larger capacities, when need be. Hybrid RAID, however, is much more advanced and offers the capability to mix and match hard drives of different capacities, as long as you don't add hard drives of lower capacities than those in the existing RAID. If you buy a DS412+ unit with hard drives preinstalled, chances are the hard drives are set up in Synology's Hybrid RAID, which is similar to RAID 5. RAID 5, which is the most popular RAID setup for multiple-drive-bay NAS servers, balances performance and storage space while still guarding data against a single-hard-drive failure. RAID 0 is optimized for top performance and capacity. This means with all four bays occupied by 4TB hard drives - the top capacity of 3.5-inch hard drives to date - the server offers up to 16TB in RAID 0 or 12TB in RAID 5. The server supports both 2.5-inch (laptop) and 3.5-inch (desktop) hard drives, of any capacities. After that, you'll need a standard screwdriver to attach or detach a standard SATA hard drive.
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Each of its four drive bays comes with a tray that you can easily pull out.
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Unlike the DS410, where you have to open its chassis to install a hard drive, the DS412+, following the design of the DS1511+ and the DS712+, makes servicing its storage much easier with a front-facing drive bay design. Those who want more storage should also consider the five-bay DS1511+. If you want something similar but slightly slower, the four-bay DS410 still makes a great investment. It excels in most if not all of the categories in which one judges a network storage device, more than enough to justify its $650 street price (storage not included). That said, the DS412+ is still by far much better than any other four-bay NAS server on the market. Additional licenses cost about $50 each, making it expensive to use as a surveillance system.
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My biggest complaint is that while the server supports some 20 IP cameras, it comes with just one camera license to host just 1 camera out of the box. For home and novice users, however, the DS412+ isn't as easy to use. Like all Synology NAS servers, the DS412+ turns even the most complicated tasks of a server into a walk in the park for intermediate and advanced users.
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Running the DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.0 operating system - and upgradable to future versions, such as the upcoming DSM 4.1 - the new server offers a vast number of features with a stellar Web interface that operates much like a native operating system. It now offers an excellent drive bay design, much faster speeds, support for USB 3.0, and a lot more. The new four-bay NAS (network-attached storage) server in a way is the follow-up to the award-winning DS410 that was released more than two years ago, and makes an excellent upgrade.