NAS Installation

Installing the DS2413+ is as straightforward as it tin be: you identify drives in hot-swap trophy, run DiskStation Banana from the supplied CD to configure disks and install the operating arrangement, and that's pretty much it. You so gain access to the DiskStation Manager past connecting to the DS2413+ with a web browser.

In fact, things have gotten fifty-fifty easier. Synology NAS devices recently received a new tool called Spider web Assistant that helps guide you through the installation procedure without having to use the CD. With a failing use of optical drives, Synology certainly needed to find a more than modern approach and it has.

The Web Assistant is launched by typing "discover.synology.com" in your web browser and this will locate any and all DiskStation devices on your local network. Once you lot accept found the device, the Web Banana software logs onto the local version of the software and begins the installation process.

The showtime window shows various statistics most the device such as model name, IP address, MAC accost, serial number, DSM version and status.

You tin choose to download and install the latest DSM software from the Synology website and this is the recommended method. Otherwise, the version shipped with the DiskStation can exist installed and this is ideal for those currently without an Internet connection. Alternatively, information technology is possible to manually download the DSM from the Synology website and install it as well.

Next, you lot must enter the DiskStation info, such as countersign and server name, while it is also possible to choose whether or non y'all would like to create a Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR) volume once the installation is complete and this is another recommended pick.

After that, the DiskStation Manager software is installed and once consummate volition be loaded into your browser.

For the purpose of this review, we installed six Western Digital Crimson 3TB hard drives for a capacity of 18TB when using RAID0, only we tested the DS2413+ using a RAID5 assortment.

To create a volume you must choose the desired drives and volume type, which include Hybrid RAID, Basic, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 5+Spare, RAID vi and RAID 10. Nosotros configured the DS2413+ with RAID5 for testing.

In one case the volume is created, y'all're free to configure the DiskStation every bit you see fit. The next logical step would exist to setup user accounts and privileges. Shared folders can then be assigned, and features such as the Download Station tin can be initiated. You tin can also connect a UPS or a printer to the DiskStation.