Designed for small & medium-sized businesses, DS415+ delivers outstanding performance, accelerated hardware encryption, & ample storage capacity satisfying the growing need for both speed & security. Equipped with a quad-core processor & AES-NI hardware encryption engine, DS415+ delivers blazingly fast file transfer speeds – even when handling encrypted data. With Link Aggregation enabled, DS415+ delivers average reading & writing speeds of 228 MB/s & 233 MB/s respectively 1, while encrypted file transfers retain an astoundingly similar level of performance, exceeding 232 MB/s reading & 206 MB/s writing. That means you can safeguard data without sacrificing performance. DS415+ boasts USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0, USB (Universal Serial Bus) 2.0, & e SATA ports to connect to various kinds of external storage devices, while ensuring fast & efficient file transfer speeds. Support for USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 offers transfer speeds of up to 5 Gbps (about 10 times faster than USB (Universal Serial Bus) 2.0), meaning it takes less time to transfer data to external hard drives, while also consuming less power. DS415+ provides seamless storage solutions for virtualization environments, including VMware, Citrix, & Microsoft Hyper-V. With VMware v Sphere 5 & VAAI integration, DS415+ helps offload specific storage operations & optimizes computation power in VMware environments. Windows ODX support speeds up data manipulation as the data transfer is offloaded. i SCSI also lets SMB users consolidate storage into data center storage arrays while providing hosts with the illusion of locally-attached disks.