 Tom here from Lauren systems and Synology has sent me this for review. This is a rack station RS 1 2 2 1 plus now They make two models of this. It's an RS 1 2 2 1 plus is the one in front of me with a single power supply and a RS 1 2 2 1 RP plus is the dual power supply model I didn't want to bring this up right away because I thought this was an odd design choice by Synology this right here is the Single power supply, but it's not like it's just missing one in the picture You see here on their website is the dual power supply model, which are you know your standard kind of server style hot Swap from the back power supplies, but what they've didn't hear is a little bit different. Let's take a look at the overhead We have a power supply mounted this way not this way I mean what obviously that brings to mind is how do you get it out of there if it goes bad? Well, you can it's just under the motherboard So the chassis themselves are absolutely different on these and I thought that was one of the first distinctions that kind of struck me as odd and Others than that they're the same exact motherboard and specs are gonna be the same But if you're want to know a difference between the two it isn't just the fact that one has a single power supply The other one has redundant It's the fact that they put the power supply in and made it well I would say a little bit more challenging to remove so if I had to swap the power supply in this one Or if you had bought the single hoping you could add a second power supply later and save a few dollars It doesn't work that way either But swapping the power side does mean removing the motherboard because it's underneath it I don't see I mean maybe I could pull the chassis out from You can see how it's not as easy to get this out because they put it right in here But the MSRP on this model is 1299 and the dual power supply model is 1699 other than that all the other specs are gonna be the same which is an AMD Ryzen processor It's the v1500 b4 core 8 thread. They both have an e-sata port to USB 3s 4 gigs of ECC memory. That's what they ship with and 4 1 gig ports now There is a PCIE in here so you can expand but that's where things get a little bit well Confusing and let me explain real quick here. It may be confusing is not the right word but disappointed So I've gotten used to the Synologies having some of their higher-end models offering the NVMe cache They did not offer one on this probably to keep the price lower, but nonetheless, it doesn't have 10 gig either now Not having 10 gig and not having that means well with one slot Is it either or? Actually, Sonology does have a solution for this and the MSRP on this is 249 This is the 10 gig and M2 SSD cache all at once I think it's kind of clever that they have a solution for it But I would like to see one or the other like just a 10 gig port on here because offering the caching is not bad I do like that. It's not always necessary. It does offer speed improvements under certain workloads I would have liked at least a spot on the board as an option to mount it But I figured at least mentioned that it's not on this model right here now This is an 8-bay model and so you can certainly put quite a few in here It has an expansion trade that you can get for it of four more bays totaling in 12 drives that you could potentially expand this too We've been testing it here for a little over a week and a half running different workloads That is why we added both a 10 gig card and we added eight gigs of RAM So we wanted a little bit more memory in this device so we could test it further But as it shipped it only had this analogy for a gigs in here and this is our card We did not have one of the Synology dual cards for testing this now if we want to take a quick look at the back And this is like I said how they put that power supply in there matter of fact You might be wondering how do you plug in a power supply that's sideways in here This actually reminds me of the old printer ones They give you actually two of these cords one of these and an extension and it goes in like this now The good news is pulling on it like this means it's not gonna come out easy So I don't mind that it's plugged in sideways actually that's really nice because if you slide this in and out of the rack It's not going to pop out But it makes sure you have this handy if you forgot the power cord and thought a standard one would get in there That angle will not make it with your standard power. It is a standard cord It's just at a right angle which not uncommon, but so a little unusual here across the back. There's those four one gig ports There's the 10 gig Intel X 520 card that we put in here That's something we had at the office and then we have the two fans on the back I'll take a little bit closer look at the motherboard now with the lid on we get pretty good airflow So we don't have any dedicated CPU fan just a large heat sink and with the airflow going this way Even our 10 gig card is still well cooled Nothing seemed to be hot at all after letting it run provided you keep the cover on top of it The eight memory is right here and then right here is where we added in the extra ram for our testing And I do like that the batteries right on top and accessible. There is one two three four five six seven Eight screws all the way around holding the lid on so it does stay on nice and snug No wobbles there does have a little system speaker for beep and then we'll slide it forward Well, look we have two fans here pretty beefy ones and because this is a Meant to be in essentially a data center or server rack. It's not going to be the absolute quietest fans But they certainly have quite a bit of airflow. There's nothing else really serviceable here I'm assuming this device right here is Probably where the operating system base lives on this device. It's not really meant to be serviceable or removable It has kind of an unusual connector. We looked at on the bottom of it But back to where that power supply is the only way I see is maybe if you took the side This appears to be screwed in right here You could probably take this out to slide off the back but that would also mean disengaging some of the way this is pushed against it and Like I said, it's not going to be an easy change out if there's everything anything goes around the power supply It is nestled underneath here in order to get to it. There's really nothing too remarkable about the front of it We have a power button on the front. We have your standard kind of Synology trays. Everything feels nice Got the standard Synology kind of hex lock that's on there So not super secure but good enough to keep people from doing that unless they stick their fingers or stick something in there Give that thing a little twist and one thing Synology really wanted to highlight is that it's not very deep So if you're putting this into a rack, you don't really have to worry about, you know Having it all that much depth behind you It is 30 centimeters for this model and 38 centimeters for the dual power supply model Fans go full power just for a second when it starts and then go down pretty much as you can tell I'm recording next to it and I don't know if it even know if the microphone is really picking it up, but the TV is pretty low on this About 55 decibels once it's initialized and I imagine if it's under enough load with enough drive Maybe these fans have wore up a little bit noisier, but it's even quieter from the front of course That's why I did this at the back. So I have the system booted up It's running it Synology distation manager 6.2 3 the latest available right now as of February 2021 And it idols at a brown 65 watts and I have the kilowatt over on it checking that out now When it ramps up it does take a little bit more wattage But even under some of the workloads and some of the testing we never really heard the fans ramp up on there It seems to stay quite cool and we have a couple virtual machines sitting right here This is actually in a cluster mode with another Synology I'll cover that in more in-depth in a virtual machine manager another video But nonetheless firing it up and connecting which we have right here Windows 10 on here It works reasonably well This is not exactly a powerhouse of a device in terms of virtualization But it will run Windows 10 and other workloads including Docker and all the other features that you get with Synology distation manager Now my overall on this device other than you know kind of hoping it would have shipped with 10 gig You know, I think that's a minor problem But it is something that you can fix by doing what we did either putting a card in or getting the Synology card And if you need the caching if that's something really necessary Well, that's an opportunity as well if you want to add that because that dual card I mentioned will kind of solve both problems at once with the only single card slot The only other minor complaint But it's worth noting is if you get the single power supply model now These do offer five-year warranties, but if you get the single power supply model and you have to swap the power supply It's just not as easy as sliding one out and sliding it in I kind of wish they would have even if it was single held that type of chassis on there So if this was going to go into data center for convenience and that little bit of extra cost I think the dual power supply model might be a little bit better in terms of that So it depends on where your budget is but nonetheless buying a pair of these and setting up Synology to back up to another Synology is very very easy to do and I still really like the solution a distation manager provides for well Just general ease of use and easy deployment We've been using it more and more for a lot of things such as the active backup and having all those features that are built into Which I'll leave a link to the video where I talk about some of the cool things We do with the Synology and some of the reasons we like their software Yeah, I'll leave a link to that. It's definitely some good stuff So hoping to see some more AMD stuff maybe even some epic stuff coming in the future I'm not aware of any but it seems like once they've started down the path and partnering with AMD to put something other than Intel on there That's exciting. We're hoping to see more in the future. All right. 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