Synology DiskStation DS413 4-bay NAS Server for Workgroups and Offices Review

Storage/NAS by stefan @ 2012-10-09

The DS413 NAS from Synology is aimed for the Home to Business Workgroup segment, provides good read/write speeds in most of the applications and features the highly configurable DSM. DSM supports plenty of additional services, accessible from the GUI, like DHCP, VPN, Syslog, Mail, Antivirus, Backup, Cloud Station and more.

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A Closer Look Part III

On the bottom side of the NAS, we wil find multiple ventilation holes, mostly located to the frontal side of the device, which act as intakes; some more holes are also located in the PCB area (the brains of the whole NAS):

 

 

 

Four square-shaped feet are to be found on the bottom side of the unit, which help with the NAS stability on the table:

 

 

 

By removing the frontal cover, we will expose the drive bays, with 4 preinstalled plastic trays:

 

 

 

If we remove all the trays, we will see quite clearly the daughterboard which makes the link between the NAS internals and the actual drives:

 

 

 

When looking on the left side, we'll see the ventilation grills through the Synology logo:

 

 

 

The other side is covered with a metallic plate and behind it there is the NAS motherboard:

 

 

 

The included plastic trays are easy to remove and can accommodate both 2.5'' and 3.5'' drives, by looking at the pre-drilled holes:

 

 

 

Here is one of the trays with a preinstalled 2.5'' drive (in this case a SSD):

 

 

 

 

When starting up the NAS for the first time, it will start booting and signal us with the Status LED that further configuration must be performed:

 

 

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