6-DRIVE Sas/sata Backplane

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OK, I've read nearly ALL the reviews on this product...the good; and, well...the rest. Here is my setup/installation experience from the perspective of a Video production editor who has never set up a NAS. Having built many computer systems myself, and having also provided remote and on-site support to literally thousands of computer customers in very large corporate and government network environments, I go into every new installation with the spirit of I can figure it out; and, if there's a problem, look in the mirror first and think twice before getting all worked up. It's just hardware. When the unexpected happens, there's always a path to some flavor of resolution. As it goes with resolutions, some taste better than others.

The primary reason I bought the Synology DS1812+ (box) was to offload 10TB of High Definition video files from my editing system so that I could completely wipe it clean and install it with an Intel 520 series Solid State Drive as the new system drive, and reconfigure the remaining four disks in a RAID 5 setup. For anybody who cares, the reason I didn't configure with RAID 5 in the first place was money, priorities; and, hey...what's RAID 5!?

... moving on . . .

** M Y S Y S T E M **

My Computer: Intel S5520SC Workstation, dual Intel XEON 3.33 GHz 6-core, 96 GB RAM, Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

My Network: DLINK DGS-108 Gigabit Ethernet unmanaged switch (Max Jumbo Frame size: 9000 bytes).

** M Y D S 1 8 1 2 + I N S T A L L A T I O N **

Installed eight Hitachi 4TB hard drives (HDS724040ALE640) 15 minutes

Installed a 2GB RAM chip 10 minutes

Fry's (Patriot memory PSD32G10662S 2GB PC3 -8500 10666MHz CL7 SoDimm)

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