Synology DS1522+ Review

The Synology DS1522+ is a 5 bay NAS that has one of the best in the middle options out there. It has the ability to upgrade to 10GbE ethernet, and comes with 8GB of ram, which compared to its closest neighbor, the DS923+ makes it a significant value add.

The DS1522+ has 5x internal drives bays, with the ability to expand to up to 2x DX517 (affiliate) expansion units, for a total of 15 hard drives (where the 15 in DS1522+ comes from)

The DS1522+ also has 2x build in m.2 NVMe slots, which can be used for either SSD caching, or it can also be used to setup a NVMe SSD volume, only with Synology NVMe SSDs. The unit also comes with 4x build in 1GbE ports, and has the ability to upgrade to 10GbE with the E10G22-T1-Mini card (affiliate).

The unit comes with the AMD Ryzen R1600 which, while not being an ultimate power horse, is enough to saturate the 10GbE connection. In testing the DS1522+ was able to copy files at over 1,000MB/s of read / write speeds, when copying to an internal SSD volume.