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

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optimized for data-intensive work

environment

Quad-core, 2.1 GHz CPU with

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AES-NI support and 4GB DDR4

memory, expandable up to 32GB

Outstanding performance at over 1,550

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MB/s reading and 580 MB/s writing

Boost IOPS system performance with

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M.2 SSD cache by using optional

M2D17 adapter card

PCIe 3.0 slot for optional 10GbE add-on

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card

Four built-in 1GbE (RJ-45) ports with

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failover and Link Aggregation support

Advanced Btrfs le system oering

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65,000 system-wide snapshots and

1,024 snapshots per shared folder

Scale up to 16 drives with two DX517

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expansion units

Highlights

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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.

Hardware Overview

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1 Status indicator 2 Alert indicator 3 Power button 4 LAN indicator

5 Drive status indicator 6 Drive tray 7 USB 3.0 port 8 Power port

9 Kensington Security Slot 10 eSATA port 11 Fan 12 1GbE RJ-45 port

13 RESET button 14 USB 3.0 port 15 eSATA port 16 PCIe expansion slot

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Technical Specications

Hardware

CPU Intel Atom C3538 quad-core 2.1GHz

Hardware encryption engine Yes (AES-NI)

Memory 4 GB DDR4-2133 Non-ECC SO-DIMM (expandable up to 32 GB with 16 GB ECC SO-DIMM x 2)

Compatible drive type

External port

Size (HxWxD)

Weight 5.05 kg

LAN 4 x 1GbE (RJ-45)

Wake on LAN/WAN Yes

PCIe 3.0 slot

Scheduled power on/o Yes

System fan 2 (92 x 92 x 32 mm)

AC input power voltage 100V to 240V AC

Power frequency 50/60Hz, single phase

Operating temperature 0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F)

Storage temperature -20°C to 60°C (-5°F to 140°F)

Relative humidity 5% to 95% RH

Maximum operating altitude 3,048 m (10,400 ft)

• 6 x 3.5" or 2.5" SATA SSD/HDD (drives not included)

• 2 x M.2 2280/2260/2242 SSD3 (drives not included)

• 3 x USB 3.0 port

• 2 x Expansion port

• 166 x 282 x 236 mm

• 166 x 282 x 243 mm (with server ears)

• x8 slot x 1 (4-lane)

• 10GbE network interface cards support

• M.2 SSD adapter card support

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General DSM Specication

English, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Español, Dansk, Norsk, Svensk, Nederlands, Русский, Polski, Magyar,
Português do Brasil, Português Europeu, Türkçe, Český,

Networking protocol SMB, AFP, NFS, FTP, WebDAV, CalDAV, iSCSI, Telnet, SSH, SNMP, VPN (PPTP, OpenVPN ™, L2TP)

File system

Supported RAID type Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR), Basic, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10

Storage management

SSD cache

File sharing capability

Privilege Windows Access Control List (ACL), application privilege

Directory service

Virtualization VMware vSphere® 6.5, Microsoft Hyper-V®, Citrix®, OpenStack®

Security

Supported client

Supported browser Chrome®, Firefox®, Internet Explorer® 10 onwards, Safari® 10 onwards; Safari (iOS 10 onwards), Chrome (Android™ 6.0 onwards)

Interface Language

• Internal: Btrfs, ext4

• External: Btrfs, ext4, ext3, FAT, NTFS, HFS+, exFAT

• Maximum single volume size: 108 TB

• Maximum of system snapshots: 65,536

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• Maximum internal volumes: 512

• Maximum iSCSI targets: 32

• Maximum iSCSI LUNs: 256

• iSCSI LUN clone/snapshot support

• Read-write cache support

• M.2 SSD support

• Maximum local user accounts: 2,048

• Maximum local groups: 256

• Maximum shared folders: 512

• Maximum concurrent SMB/NFS/AFP/FTP connections: 1,000

Windows® AD integration: Domain users login via SMB/NFS/AFP/FTP/File Station, LDAP integration

Firewall, encrypted shared folder, SMB encryption, FTP over SSL/TLS, SFTP, rsync over SSH, login auto block, Let's Encrypt support, HTTPS
(Customizable cipher suite)

Windows 7 and 10, Mac OS X® 10.11 onwards

Packages and Applications

File Station

FTP Server

Universal Search Oer global search into applications and les

Hyper Backup Support local backup, network backup, and backup data to public clouds

Active Backup for Server Centralize data backup for Windows and Linux servers without client installation

Backup tools

Cloud Station Suite

Drive

Cloud Sync

Surveillance Station

Virtual Machine Manager Deploy and run various virtual machines on Synology NAS, including Windows, Linux, or Virtual DSM

High Availability Manager Reduce service downtime by setting up two identical NAS into one high-availability cluster

Snapshot Replication

Active Directory Server A exible and cost-eective domain controller solution

VPN Server Maximum connections: 20, supported VPN protocol: PPTP, OpenVPN™, L2TP/IPSec

MailPlus Server

Virtual drive, remote folder, Windows ACL editor, compressing/extracting archived les, bandwidth control for specic users or groups,
creating sharing links, transfer logs

Bandwidth control for TCP connections, custom FTP passive port range, anonymous FTP, FTP SSL/TLS and SFTP protocol, boot over the
network with TFTP and PXE support, transfer logs

DSM conguration backup, macOS Time Machine support, Cloud Station Backup
Shared folder sync - maximum tasks: 8

Sync data between multiple platforms by installing the client utilities on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS devices, while retaining up to
32 historical versions of les
Maximum concurrent le transfers: 1,000

• Maximum Number of Synced Files: 1,000,000 / single file reaction time 437 ms

• Maximum Number of Concurrent Connections for PC Clients: 550

One or two-way synchronization with public cloud storage providers including Amazon Drive, Amazon S3-compatible storage, Baidu cloud,
Box, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, hubiC, MegaDisk, Microsoft OneDrive, OpenStack Swift-compatible storage, WebDAV
servers, Yandex Disk

Maximum IP cameras: 40 (total of 1,200 FPS at 720p, H.264) (includes two free camera licenses; additional cameras require the purchasing of
additional licenses)

• Maximum shared folder snapshots: 1,024

• Maximum replications: 32

Secure, reliable, and private mail solution with high-availability, load balancing, security and ltering design (Includes 5 free email account
licenses; additional accounts require the purchasing of additional licenses)

MailPlus Intuitive webmail interface for MailPlus Server, customizable mail labels, lters, and user interface

Collaboration tools

Note Station Rich-text note organization and versioning, encryption, sharing, media embedding and attachments

Storage Analyzer

Antivirus Essential Full system scan, scheduled scan, white list customization, virus denition auto update

Download Station

Web Station Virtual host (up to 30 websites), PHP/MariaDB®, 3rd-party applications support

Other packages

• Chat maximum users: 1,500

• Office maximum users: 1,800

• Calendar: support CalDAV and access via mobile devices

Volume and quota usage, total size of les, volume usage and trends based on past usage, size of shared folders, largest/most/least frequently
modied les

Supported download protocols: BT, HTTP, FTP, NZB, eMule, Thunder, FlashGet, QQDL
Maximum concurrent download tasks: 80

Video Station, Photo Station, Audio Station, DNS Server, RADIUS Server, iTunes® Server, Log Center, additional 3rd-party packages are
available in Package Center

Environment and Packaging

Environment safety RoHS compliant

• DS1618+ main unit x 1

Package content

Optional accessories

Warranty 3 years

*Model specications are subject to change without notice. Please refer to www.synology.com for the latest information.

1. Performance gures may vary depending on environment, usage, and conguration.

2. DS1618+ supports dual M.2 SSD through M2D17 adapter card, sold separately.

3. DS1618+ supports up to two Synology DX517, sold separately.

4. 5 year warranty is available as an optional bundle with EW201, 2-year Extended Warranty service add-on. Visit https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/Extended_Warranty
for more information on availability.

5. exFAT Access is purchased separately in Package Center.

6. System snapshot includes snapshots taken by iSCSI Manager, Snapshot Replication, and Virtual Machine Manager. Availability of these packages varies by model.

• Quick Installation Guide x 1

• Accessory pack x 1

• AC power cord x 2

• RJ-45 LAN cable x 2

• 4GB DDR4-2133 Non-ECC SO-DIMM (D4NS2133-4G)

• 16GB DDR4-2133 ECC SO-DIMM (RAMEC2133DDR4SO-16G)

• Synology E10G17-F2 / E10G15-F1 10Gbps Ethernet adapters

• Synology M2D17 M.2 SSD adapter card

• Expansion Unit DX517

• VisualStation VS360HD, VS960HD

• Surveillance Device License Pack

• MailPlus License Pack

• Virtual DSM License Pack

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DS1618+-2018-ENU-REV001

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