Final Thoughts:
The Synology DiskStation DS620slim is a great choice for anyone looking for a compact, yet powerful, 6-bay NAS for for their home or small business. Equipped with an Intel Celeron J3355 dual-core 2.0 GHz processor, 2GB of DDR3 RAM and an AES-NI hardware encryption engine, this mini-sized NAS delivers great performance as well as a multitude of features for both home and office environments. Along with an easy to use web interface, the DS620slim offers centralized, cross platform storage and backups, cloud synchronization, media streaming with 4K video transcoding, SSD caching and remote access via Synology's QuickConnect service.
As far as performance goes, the DS620slim wasn't the fastest multi-bay NAS to come through the 'Labs. Nevertheless, it performed relatively well throughout our tests, reading and writing at more than 116 MB/s using only a single NIC. The SSD cache also gave the DS620slim 's random read and write performance a considerable boost, increasing, in some cases, the number of IOPS by more than 16x.
The DS620slim is available now and can be purchased from online retailers like Amazon and Newegg for about $452.
Highs:
- Dual-core Intel Celeron processor with AES-NI encryption engine
- Six 2.5-inch hot-swap drive bays
- Supports SHR, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, JBOD and basic disk configurations
- Cross-platform file sharing and synchronization
- Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports
- USB 3.0 expansion ports
- Easy to use web interface
- Remotely accessible from web browsers and mobile devices
- Cloud synchronization
- Multimedia streaming with 4K video transcoding
- Supports SSD caching
- Quiet operation
- Reasonably priced
- Two year warranty
Lows:
- Maximum capacity lower than NAS devices with 3.5-inch hard drives
