01-15-2021, 02:15 PM
Yes, combining all this into a single solution would help a lot and keep things tidy. Synology DS1621+ is a very good NAS, but if you want to get the very best speed then DS1621xs+ would do a better job. Xeon processor can prepare network packets much quicker and also maintain a RAID at the same time. But if you do not need maximum possible performance via 10GbE then DS1621+ would perform fast enough for a 1-2 users working on the same project. The XS series features 10GbE card built-in whereas other model requires an upgrade. You can also have one of each if you want to set up high availability. It doesn't need to be the same NAS.Setting up RAID0 would be an option. But sooner or later one drive will fail, and then everything will need to be set up from scratch and data copied over which might take days.Having Seagate Exos drives is a good choice. Same like WD Red Pro and WD HGST / Ultrastar these are enterprise drives. They are louder but access speeds are much quicker.NVMe cache would help. If you work with projects including small files this can really slow down HDDs. SSD can access these file much faster.I hope this helps.