Now I have hot swap, more space, more features, and better performance.

Later when setting it up you see that a solo cache SSD maximizes the read speed, to get the best performance for read and write tasks you need to have 2 SSDs for caching.

Sure you can tweak FreeNAS enough to yield better performance dollar for dollar, but the convenience of the Synology makes it more worth the investment

I could put the stuff in containers and get better performance but so far it hasn't chugged

/s High-Performance Hard Drive for Desktop NAS Systems Retail Packaging 0S04005 drives and had it up on the network in less than an hour

For the price of this box, I could get faster performance using Linux on commodity hardware, but it wouldn't have the ease of use, nor the compact form factor that Synology has put together here.

Excellent performance combined with the WD Red hard drives, very satisfied.

Awesome performance

Sturdy Construction, Secure, Quiet, Frequent updates, Good server utilities, Good performance, Network management experience not essential

Here are some of my thoughts about the DS918+:PROS- Excellent performance for the

So again, I'm not sure if I have something set up wrong, and it is limiting my performance, but it seems that Technical support doesn't expect anything higher.

How to get the worst performance, Set up an ISCSI drive on your windows computer and connect to a windows share on the same nas, transfer from the windows share to the ISCSI target, between 3 and 4 MBps (18 to 23 Mbps).

I’ll add an update later if I have anything significant regarding performance or experience, but so far it does what it says and am happy with the unit.

Good quality and performance

Solid NAS with great performance.

All in all, if you like synology nas products - you’ll probably like this unit for its flexible upgrade options, and good performance compared to older units.

so I drop two stars for poor performance

After the announcement of the 918+ earlier this year, I put my planned purchase of a 916+ on hold because I wanted the dual NVM SSD drive support for improved caching/performance

Use NAS rated drives for best performance.

Confusing as it could possibly be