DISCLAIMER: In the interest of full disclosure, SA3400 along with all the HDDs (HAS5300 and Exos 7E8) is on loan from Synology GmbH, however, all of the opinions you are about to read are my own, nobody has reviewed or approved this content before it was posted.
In this article series, I will be looking into Synology SA3400 12-bay NAS running with 4x HAS5300 12TB Synology drives as well as 4x ST8000NM0075 8TB Seagate Enterprise ones.
General overview and testing will include, installing the device itself using Synology RKS1317 rail mount kit, installing and configuring the drives and raid array, followed by various speed tests, service, and protocol tests, as well as application testing.
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