 Time here for more systems. And this is a Synology Rackstation RS 3621XS Plus and it is outfitted with 12 SATA 5200-480G SSDs in array here and they're configured in RAID F1 And I also have a Synology 25 gig network card installed on this now. This system is really nice We've been testing it for several weeks. We've had no issues with it all it works as expected matter of fact It works really surprisingly well, and I've got benchmarks that I did and I'll leave those linked down below I also did a test on NFS versus Ice Guzzy benchmarks with the RAID F1 RAID 6 and RAID 10 So a couple different configurations on here So I won't be diving much into the benchmarks in this particular video because I have them in the other video where well I link to them so you can dive through and really look at all the details of different performance metrics But this was provided to me by Synology as a demo unit that I don't get to keep So this is completely my own thoughts. 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Let's jump right to the technical specs We have an Intel Xeon D 1541 8 gigs of DDR for memory and for memory slots We will definitely have to address this though Please select memory modules for optimum compatibility please like Synology memory modules specifically is what it says there I bring it up because I know some people think it's just a cash grab by these companies to force you into using their Specific or proprietary memory. It's not that it's specific or proprietary. It has been tested and known compatible This is one of those things when you buy enterprise equipment you spec it out with the company you're buying it from and you want to have the least amount of problems and Synology has tested it with their memory therefore they know it's one less thing to troubleshoot is whether or not the memory You put in has some compatibility that causes the crashing that you may be experiencing on an application It's just one less thing to troubleshoot So they do push for their memory modules to be used. So just one of those thoughts on that I don't think as much as the cash grab as it is a support headache grab I mean you as an IT search writer if you're one of those people watching this you're going Yeah, I try to get everything spec'd exactly right. So I do not troubleshooting any of those problems There's enough other things to troubleshoot. I get it where they're coming from on that It has 12 drive base expandable up to 36 with their Expansion units two and a half inch or three and a half inch hard drives This is one of those spots though that you'll need more memory if you're doing one petabyte of storage You will need a 64 gig of memory if you're doing 200 terabytes 32 gig of memory is required and 108 terabytes Well, I guess you can get away with that if you're running only eight gigs My guess is the application should be running such as active backup or any of the other Synology surveillance applications You're probably gonna run in more memory needs on those applications as well Not just if you're putting a lot of storage in versus storage is hot swappable And we'll talk about the drives really quick here. This is kind of a pain in the butt works best with Synology drives I really get that Synology wants to use their drives one for predictable performance to so there's a warranty on them That's five-year warranty and three so if there's a firmware change to the drive It can be pushed through the Synology software. All those are really solid reasons I just wish it was a checkbox that says I'm an adult and I'm going to put in a different drive And I don't want the error message that says this this storage pool contains one or more unverified drives That's the annoying message. You'll get if you don't use the Synology drives. They have an explainer on it They link to a help article. I get it and usually if I'm selling something like this I'm gonna buy the Synology drives with it I just wish there was an option to use the non-Synology drives as well. It is a little annoyance I did find with this system. Ultimately, it's up to you whether or not you think that's a deal breaker with it But hey, those are my thoughts on it now. Let's talk about the back of the case here We do have four RJ45 one gig LAN ports with link aggregation and failover support and two 10 gig LAN ports with link aggregation and failover support. Yes, one gig ports are still relevant today Why? Because despite the myths that's propagated on the internet 4k and 8k cameras It takes quite a few of them to even saturate a one gig port So this is ideal if you're setting it up for surveillance station And you want to have a few different ports dedicated to different networks that are dedicated to cameras without having to split it off as a VLAN on your 10 gig network I think it's still pretty rational use case to have those four on there But for those you that need the performance of 10 gig. Yep, it's there It's built in as I said in the beginning though I opted for 25 gig performance and so I put a 25 gig card in the system now This system does have dual power supply units. They are hot swappable and the hot swappable is really easy on these I see that because lots of companies have about how difficult is it to slide them out and slide them in The fit and finish is really nice. It didn't feel I don't know like I was gonna break something Taking them in and out or happen to slide them in where some of them you have to really jam The power supply back in to get it to work. No problem. Slid out really smooth feels really well machined Now one of the other things about this it has hot swappable fans You can just pop the fans in and out with the kind of weird mid-level case removal But I like this this makes it really easy if I need to change out a fan Easy to slide this in and out as long as you have enough space above to get this open or on proper rails to slide this out You know, it doesn't require any downtime to swap the fans Now when you're taking a look inside the machine and a look inside the chassis here It's really clean really well made but there is one thing missing It does not have any native built-in M2 slots But that can be facilitated by getting an M2d20 adding card easy enough to put that in there and add them I kind of wish it was built in the board But hey, I guess we can't have everything But we do have a 25 gig card from Synology that I did add on here on the board overall I think inside the chassis is nice clean very easy to get to everything When the system first starts up it has the rating of roughly 81 decibels But that quickly quiets down to about 65 after it's been sitting for just a few minutes and idols that way Unless you're putting an under heavy low then of course the fans will ramp back up Now we are running DSM version 7.01 for 2218 the latest version available as of November 2021 I'm not going to dive deep into all the packages this comes with because well It's the same as it does on many of their other plus models all the active backup features hyper backup and many of the things I've talked about and I'll leave reviews to those down below Over to the drive management though I like the way the new DSM 7 does this will cross a lot of their new models and even the older ones Once you get DSM 7 you get a cool view instead of just listing the drives It kind of shows a layout or a picture of the system. So we know what's in Bay 1 Bay 2 We know the health status of the drive and as I mentioned earlier You will also know if you put a non-synology drive in there That's where that error message shows up if you look through the logs One of the things we did test when we were degrading the drives and plugging things in and out was what happens when you put Any non-synology drive? Well, yes, you can actually reseal for it and just deal with that error message So for some reason it passed the five-year warranty and you have to replace one of those drives with a non-synology one Yes, that is possible as well as scenarios I wanted to test because I was curious because five years from now You know, it's not a warranty and I happen to have a drive laying around and I just want the system to be Up and running and have to replace one. Yeah, that's a complete possibility. You can do that Oh, but maybe by then there'll be a DSM update that stops the stupid error message from Telling us that it's a non-synology drive, but overall I think it's a solid system all the testing We did here over time at the office. No problems with it We had like absolutely trouble-free and very reliable the Iops we got were pretty impressive see that benchmark video down below and overall I still like a lot of the analogy offering they have and this is a good piece of hardware to Match up with some of that software that they offer for things like backups and everything else Alright, if you have some comments concerns leave them down below if you want a more in-depth discussion on this You can head over to the forums and connect with me there And we can talk to or argue about some of the points and merits of the waste analogy design this because it's always fun They have an active discussion on it. 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