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[Review] Synology DS1512+ NAS

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My personal review / experience with the following NAS Brief Introduction Picture obtained source This enormous yet powerful NAS comes with a dual-core processor, hardware encryption engine, and flawless software integration, DS1512+ is a powerful, expandable 5-bay NAS server that brings outstanding speed and accelerated data encryption. The DS1512+ is aimed to scale as well, the DS1512+ can be equipped with up to 3GB of DDR3 RAM and host up to 60TB (4TB x 15) of raw capacity with two Synology DX510 units connected via its eSATA interface. The 5-bay option is optimized for people who prefers to have two disk failures with SHR2 (RAID6) instead of one.  With two LAN ports, the DS1512+ allows you to combine these ports with Link Aggregation Technology. Link Aggregation effectively increases the bandwidth of your NAS by aggregating multiple network interfaces and provides network redundancy in the event if either one the ports fails to work. However, this is not to be mistaken wi