Concluding Thoughts

Although the Disk Station DS410j is the cheapest 4-bay NAS device that Synology has on offer, we feel its functioning falls brusk of the target even considering the price. After all, at around $370 it can still exist considered expensive and will save buyers a mere $70 against the next model up, the much faster DS409.

And then yous must consider the amount of storage you lot are after, equally anything less than 3TB will probably make no sense with this production. The DS109 was just as fast and in some cases faster than the DS410j, while remaining about 38% cheaper, and tin can be equipped with a 2TB difficult drive for equally little every bit $170. Meanwhile, adding four 1TB hard drives to the DS410j should cost at least $320, taking the total toll to ~$700. At that price level spending roughly x% more than for a much faster 4-bay NAS device (DS409) does non seem unreasonable.

Equally nosotros meet it there is a very small-scale target audience for the DS410j, those who want maximum storage at the lowest price possible without considering functioning to be a priority.

While the value and performance of the DS410j may be questionable, the build quality and features are non. Like all Synology products the DS410j is very well designed and comes with an impressive software suite to boot. Disk Station Director 2.ii is perhaps the best of whatever consumer NAS device we have seen. The included Windows based utilities are besides very good and worked without a glitch.

The installation process of the DS410j has been refined compared to other Synology NAS devices. We were pleased to see they take finally eliminated the messy data and ability cable system. Other than the toll and operation, the just other problem we had with the DS410j was the painfully irksome bulldoze configuration process.

Although the initial steps were quick, when it came time to create a volume we were shocked at how long the DS410j took to configure our hard drives. Creating the i.5TB RAID0 array took around five hours! Never before have we had to wait more than than a few minutes to complete this task. However, this issue has been reported by others and at least one user claims that it took more than 24 hours to configure 8TB of storage with the DS410j.

At this phase it is non articulate if this is something that tin can be fixed with a simple Firmware update, or if it is only something all DS410j users are going to have to deal with. All we tin can practice is warn anyone who volition be configuring it with 4TB or more that this process could accept all day.

The Synology Disk Station DS410j is a mixed purse with dandy key features that include the software, build quality and design. Notwithstanding, as a budget oriented product, we are non convinced that the value is actually there due to its performance shortcomings. Therefore we are reluctant to recommend information technology and instead suggest our readers to check out the slightly more expensive DS409.