Synology on Wednesday announced the launch of its new five-bay DiskStation DS1010+ scalable NAS box with much improved write times. How much? According to Synology, the new unit cruises past its predecessor, the DS509+, with 250 percent faster writes.

"We recognize that many businesses have the difficult task of anticipating and managing their increasing storage needs while dealing with very limited budgets," says Douglas Self, Product Specialist at Synology America corp. "The new DiskStation DS1010+ addresses these needs while packing in a huge set of business critical features and the flexibility of purchasing five bays now, knowing that scaling to 10 bays is easy and affordable in the future with the DX510."

Synology says businesses can expect an average of 116MB/s or higher read speeds under a RAID 5 configuration in a Windows environment, along with 103MB/s or higher write speeds.

Other features include cross-platform data sharing, Windows ADS support, network and remote backup including Apple Time Machine support, file sharing and encrypted FTP, DLNA media server and photo sharing, and more.

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