Good day!
I want to bring to your attention some of the new products of the company Synology inc, presented at CeBIT 2014.
Home devices:
DS414playTwo-DS214play, sharpened by multimedia transcoding, has received great popularity among users. Now the “older” four-
disk brother has appeared -
DS414play , which has the same processor and RAM, but is able to work with 4th disks. More room for your home music library!
Photo of the novelty (DS214play on the left, DS414play on the right)

Upgrade a series of devices with built-in WiFi -
DS214airNovelty received a wireless module
802.11ac, 3 gigabit ports and the ability to work as a home routerA photo

Updated budget four-
disk NAS Synology
DS414j .
Specifications:
MindSpeed ​​Comcerto 2000 Dual Core 1.2GHz processor
Memory DDR3 512 MB
Ports USB 3.0 port X 1, USB 2.0 port X 1, Gigabit X 1
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Everything new is well forgotten old. And for the next novice, this phrase is no exception. Meet the successor of the budget model from Synology inc. USB Station 2 -
EDS14 .
Specifications:
Marvell Armada 370 1.2GHz processor
512MB RAM
Ports USB 3.0 port X 1, USB 2.0 port X 1, Gigabit X 2
Size 125 x 125 x 31 (mm)
An interesting feature is the power input from 7 to 24V 2A, the output is similar to the input, 1A. Thus, in principle, you can power the device by PoE through a splitter, and add additional equipment to the output.
New photos:

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Since 2011, Synology has not updated the smallest NAS with drive bays - DS411slim. But the time has come and we present to your attention
DS414slim .
A distinctive feature of this series is the 2.5 "HDD bays. Thanks to the use of small HDDs, the DS414slim is the most compact model. The main difference from its predecessor is 2 Gbps ports, Marvell Armada 370 1.2GHz processor and 512MB of RAM.
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Now heavy artillery:
RS3614xs - updated model RS3412xs
The new model continues the trend of Synology for maximum use of the capacity of the body. If the predecessor had only 10 slots for 3.5 "HDD, then the novelty already has 12. Due to the expansion modules, the maximum number of disks managed by one" head "has grown to 36. Detailed information on the technical characteristics, alas, has not yet been found (if someone finds - write links in the comments, be sure to add).
RS3414xs + is a high-performance model focused on
2.5 "HDD (expands to 34 drives per system). 10 drives in the head module, only 1U in height. No detailed technical specifications, but based on the photos found: Intel Xeon E3 four 3.3 GHz cores, ECC memory DDR3 8GB, 4 Gbit LAN.
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RS3414xs + rack

And at the end of the post the most unexpected and powerful novelty is
RS18014xs +Let me remind you that the first 1, 2 or 3 digits represent the maximum number of HDD serviced by the head unit, and the last 2 digits represent the model year. So, just for one model name, it is clear that it serves up to 180 HDD. With support for 5TB disks, almost Petabyte of data.
Now to the distinctive features of the novelty
This is a
failover cluster of Asset-Asset , consisting of 2 diskless devices. Take a look at the back panel and understand everything:

Connection over USB 3.0 - between devices. Thick wire to the right - to the baskets with disks.
View of the basket:

Two devices are connected to each of them.
The whole system:

Scheme of work:

Specifications unfortunately not presented.
PS Thanks for the photo matthieu-ds.dyndns.org, hardware.info and
www.backupacademy.pl