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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The Synology DSM Software Part II

Right away, we can now log in inside the browser interface, with the "admin" user and the password we have set up earlier:

 

 

 

The Synology DSM is quite complex and looks like a real desktop with icons, widgets and extra menus; in center, we have a configuration Wizard, which helps us get through the initial configuration steps:

 

 

 

First, we'll have to create a volume (or multiple volumes) on the disks we have available:

 

 

 

DSM will prompt us to select some of the available volume creation options:

 

 

 

 

 

Before the volume creation, we will be informed that all the previously recorded data will be erased:

 

 

 

If we have multiple disks installed, we will be able to choose from multiple RAID types:

 

 

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