@ thx Rusty for such intro
@Micky when you deeply uncover information from
@Rusty you will see, that Synology:
- will use again desktop CPU Celeron "J" series - what is enough for such small beast up to 5bay NAS
- yes limitation of max. 8GB RAM must be problem, when someone would like run extended virtualized environments
- more important is limitation of PCIe in this CPU - just for ver. 2.0 and max. 1x4 configuration. It's really step down for NAS environment, specially when you need use SSD chache expansion for better performance. This is for my future upgrade a show stopper.
There is still hidden information about next gen Atom based CPUs from Server "P" series in next Syno NAS generation, what have 8-24 cores, 9-27MB L2 chache and support for DDR4 64-128GB RAM with 2933MHz, PCIe with ver. 3.0 and 1x16 for the 3.0 +1x16 for the 2.08.
It will be really nice upgrade candidate for Syno NAS 8bay models. Must say really better performance for NAS than Celeron. Don't compare Atom desktop with Atom Server series! It's different world.