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Synology announced today its first eight-bay DiskStation NAS server, theDS1812+.

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virtual server hosting Synology DS1812+ NAS server: More TBs than you can,The new eight-bay DS1812+ NAS server from Synology.

Synology announces the availability of its sub-$1000 DS1812+ NAS server thats capable of offering up to 32TB of storage space.

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If thats not enough, the server can also work with twoDX510 expansion units, each of which adds another five bays, to offer up to 72TB of storage space, before you have to resort to using its six USB ports to add more storage.

Synology says that since the DS1812+ is equipped with a ster dual-core 2.1GHz processor and 1GB (upgradable to 3GB) of DDR3 RAM, it offers even better performance than the DS1511+, up to 202MBps and 194MBps for reading and writing, respectively, over a gigabit network. The server also now supports USB 3.0.

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Most computers have just about 1TB of storage space, which is enough (and then some) for most users. The DS1812+, by itself, can host 32 times that much, more TBs than you can count with your fingers and toes.

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The new DS1812+ NAS server is available now and slated to cost $999 with no storage included.

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Other than the support for an extreme amount of storage space, the new DS1812+ offers basically the same features as other high-end NAS servers from Synology, such as the five-baytop-of-the-line DS1511+.

This is one of the first, if not the first 深圳学生网, consumer-friendly NAS server on the market that offers eight native hard drive bays. This means that when populated with all 4TB hard drives, the server can offer up to 32TB of storage space.