Press Release

Synology introduces its newest lineup of home and business NAS solutions – the XS-, Plus- and Value-Series. The new products feature ultra-high performance using SSD cache that also saves internel drive bays.

XS-Series
The Synology DS3018xs is the industry’s first compact 6-bay tower NAS featuring the advanced Intel Pentium D1508 dual-core 2.2GHz processor with AES-NI encryption engine, offering scalability of RAM up to 32 GB and of storage capacity up to 30 drives with two Synology DX1215. The DS3018xs packs four Gigabit LAN ports with an optional 10GbE network interface card, delivering stunning performance at over 2,230 MB/s sequential reading and 265,000 sequential read IOPS.

Plus-Series
The Synology DS918+ and DS718+ are powered by Intel Celeron J3455 quad-core processor while the DS218+ packs an Intel Celeron J3355 dual core processor. All these models are equipped with AES-NI hardware encryption engine. Powered by transcoding engine, these Plus-series NAS servers support up to two channels of H.265/H.264 4K video transcoding. The RAM can be scaled up to 8 GB for DS918+, and up to 6 GB for the other two products and their storage capacity can be scaled up to 9 and 7 drives respectively with Synology DX517.

Value-Series
The Synology DS418 is equipped with a 1.4GHz quad-core processor with hardware encryption engine, 2 GB RAM, and two LAN ports. Powered by the hardware transcoding engine, DS418 supports H.265 4K transcoding to serve as your media library.