Synology DS118 Single Bay Diskstation Reviewed

thiggins · Feb 19, 2018

Synology's DS118 is high performance, but expensive, single bay NAS.

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peraburek · Feb 19, 2018

Can you test OpenVPN throughput and performance with AES128 and AES256 ?

thiggins · Feb 20, 2018

peraburek said:
Can you test OpenVPN throughput and performance with AES128 and AES256 ?

No further testing is planned on this device. It has been returned to Synology.

sfx2000 · Feb 20, 2018

peraburek said:
Can you test OpenVPN throughput and performance with AES128 and AES256 ?

The AES-128/AES-256 performance is similar to Raspberry Pi 3 - same cores there...

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