Synology Introduces 5-Bay DS1522+ NAS with AMD Ryzen R1600

Synology has announced the DS1522+, a nas intended for small and medium-sized businesses. The model has five bays, four gigabit Ethernet connections and an embedded AMD Ryzen processor. There are two m2 slots for SSDs for expansion.

The DiskStation DS1522+ includes the embedded AMD Ryzen R1600 from the R1000 SoC series. The chip is the only one in this series that has to do without the Radeon Vega 3 GPU. The R1600 has a clock speed of 2.6GHz, a maximum burst clock speed of 3.1GHz and a TDP of between 12 and 25W. The previous model, the DS1520+, has the Intel Celeron J4125 as CPU. It has four cores instead of the two cores of the Ryzen R1600, although the Intel chip runs at lower speeds, namely 2GHz and a maximum of 2.7GHz. The tdp of the Intel chip is also lower and is at 10W.

The manufacturer combines the CPU of the DS1522 + with an 8GB DDR4 module, but there is room for a second one. There is support up to 32GB. The device can accommodate five 3.5″ or 2.5″ storage media. The nas also has two m2 connections for nvme ssds that can be used as a cache. Through the DX517expansion unit, it is expandable from the standard five bays to a total of fifteen bays.

There are four RJ45 connections for gigabit Ethernet and by installing one PCIe network interface card 10GbE is also possible. There are also two USB 3.0 connections and two eSATA ports. Synology’s DS1522+ measures 166mm x 230mm x 223mm, weighs 2.7kg and is priced at $700.