Synology DS1618+ User Manual

DiskStation
DS1618+
Synology DiskStation DS1618+ is a versatile, compact, yet powerful 6-bay NAS equipped with quad­core processor, designed for small- and medium-sized businesses. It comes with advanced computing applications to meet businesses' demand and supercharges your storage with the optional M.2 SSD adapter card for dual SSD cache drives. DS1618+ is ideal to serve as a centralized le server for simplifying data management and protecting critical assets. Synology DS1618+ is backed with Synology’s 3-year limited warranty.
High-performance Scalable Storage Server
Synology DS1618+ is a 6-bay network attached storage solution with great performance and scalability. DS1618+ supports up to 16 drives with two Synology DX5173 expansion units, allowing you to start small and easily scale up on demand. In addition to 10GbE add-on card, which can upgrade the network capacity of DS1618+, the PCle slot also supports the optional SATA M.2 SSD adapter card to function as SSD cache for greatly enhanced storage performance without using the 3.5" drive bays.
DS1618+ is equipped with a quad-core processor and 4GB DDR4 memory (expandable up to 32GB). With Link Aggregation enabled, DS1618+ delivers outstanding sequential throughput performance at over 1,550 MB/s reading and
580 MB/s writing1.
Btrfs: Next Generation Storage Eciency
DS1618+ introduces the Btrfs le system, bringing the most advanced storage technologies to meet the management needs of modern businesses:
Built-in data integrity check detects data and le system corruption with data and meta-data checksums and improves the overall stability.
Flexible Shared Folder/User Quota System provides comprehensive quota control over all user accounts and shared folders.
Advanced snapshot technology with customizable backup schedule allows up to 1,024 copies of shared folder backups in a minimum 5-minute interval without occupying huge storage capacity and system resources.
File or folder level data restoration brings huge conveniences and saves time for users who wish to restore only a specic le or folder.
File self-healing: Btrfs le system can auto-detect corrupted les with mirrored metadata, and recover broken data using the supported RAID volumes, which include RAID1, 5, 6, and 10.
Powerful and scalable 6-bay NAS
optimized for data-intensive work
environment
Quad-core, 2.1 GHz CPU with
AES-NI support and 4GB DDR4
memory, expandable up to 32GB
Outstanding performance at over 1,550
MB/s reading and 580 MB/s writing
Boost IOPS system performance with
M.2 SSD cache by using optional
M2D17 adapter card
PCIe 3.0 slot for optional 10GbE add-on
card
Four built-in 1GbE (RJ-45) ports with
failover and Link Aggregation support
Advanced Btrfs le system oering
65,000 system-wide snapshots and
1,024 snapshots per shared folder
Scale up to 16 drives with two DX517
expansion units
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Cross-platform File Sharing
DSM, the operating system running on NAS, provides fast and secure ways to share your critical digital assets. Synology Drive unies multiple le portals on Synology NAS and greatly simplies data management. You can share les to anyone, and customize access permissions for optimal security. Synology Drive makes it easy to share les across multiple platforms — whether it's Windows®, Mac®, and Linux® computers or mobile devices.
Centralized Backup Storage
DS1618+ can serve as a centralized backup destination, providing large storage capacity with aordable cost of ownership. Large amount of data scattered on employees' workstations can be easily backed up and synced to a centralized target on DS1618+. Cloud Sync keeps your Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Baidu, and Box storage in sync with DS1618+.
With block-level incremental backup and cross-version deduplication, Synology Hyper Backup provides multi-version backup with optimized storage utilization and allows for backing up to multiple destinations–local shared folders, external hard drives, network shared folders, rsync servers, and public cloud services.
Eortless Virtualization Environment
Synology’s Virtual Machine Manager adds unlimited capabilities to your NAS. Set up and run various virtual machines, including Windows, Linux, and Virtual DSM so that you can test new software versions in a sandbox environment, isolate your customers' machines, and increase the exibility of your DS1618+ with reduced hardware deployment and maintenance costs.
Synology iSCSI storage fully supports most virtualization solutions to enhance work eciency with a simple management interface. VMware vSphere™ 6.5 and VAAI integration helps ooad storage operations and optimizes computation eciency. Windows Ooaded Data Transfer (ODX) speeds up data transfer and migration rates, while OpenStack Cinder support turns your Synology NAS into a block-based storage component.
Next-Generation File System
A modern le system designed to address obstacles often encountered in enterprise storage systems. Safeguarding data integrity through metadata mirroring, self-healing and snapshot replication.
Virtual Machine Manager
Virtual Machine Manager implements various virtualization solutions, allowing you to manage multiple virtual machines on your DS1618+, including Windows, Linux, and Virtual DSM.
Reliability, Availability & Disaster Recovery
System reliability is of paramount importance to businesses which depend upon their commercial servers every day. DS1618+ responds to these concerns with wide-ranging availability and redundancy features:
Synology High Availability Manager ensures seamless transitioning between clustered servers with minimal impact to applications, preventing unexpected interruptions and costly downtime.
Redundant power supplies, system fans and network ports with failover support ensure maximum continuous service uptime.
• High reliability system design including fan-less CPU heat-sink and passive cooling technology, preventing single points of failure.
• Optional 5-year warranty4 is available in select regions.
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