Synology DiskStation DS923+ 4-Bay NAS Enclosure vs Fortinet FortiGate 40F Next-Generation Firewall
What separates them
These two differ on 3 recorded specifications. The Synology DiskStation DS923+ 4-Bay NAS Enclosure is $104.99 dearer. They are different kinds of product — network attached storage against network firewall appliance — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
Synology DiskStation DS923+ 4-Bay NAS Enclosure vs Fortinet FortiGate 40F Next-Generation Firewall
Synology
Synology DiskStation DS923+ 4-Bay NAS Enclosure
$599.99
Four bays and ECC memory are the two things that separate this from the two-bay units, and ECC is the one that matters for a machine holding the only copy of anything.
Full details →Fortinet
Fortinet FortiGate 40F Next-Generation Firewall
$495.00
The 5 Gbps firewall figure and the 900 Mbps threat protection figure are the same appliance measured with inspection off and on -- the second number is what a site with security profiles enabled will actually see.
Full details →Who the Synology DiskStation DS923+ 4-Bay NAS Enclosure is for
Buy it if: Offices needing four bays, ECC memory and a route to 10 GbE later.
Avoid it if: Media servers relying on hardware transcoding, which this processor cannot do at all.
Who the Fortinet FortiGate 40F Next-Generation Firewall is for
Buy it if: Branch offices needing SD-WAN, IPS and web filtering under central FortiManager control.
Avoid it if: Anyone budgeting for the appliance alone -- the subscription is the larger recurring cost.
Specifications, side by side
3 of 17 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | Synology DiskStation DS923+ 4-Bay NAS Enclosure | Fortinet FortiGate 40F Next-Generation Firewall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $599.99 | $495.00 |
| Annual energy use | About 286 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $49 at $0.17 per kWh | About 105 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $18 at $0.17 per kWh |
| Rated power | About 32.7 W in access, 12.1 W at hibernation | About 12 W typical |
| Warranty | 3-year limited warranty | 1-year limited hardware warranty |
| Capacity | 4 bay | not published |
| Concurrent sessions | not published | About 700,000 |
| Cooling | not published | Fanless |
| Drive bays | 4 x 3.5 inch SATA, diskless | not published |
| Expansion slots | 2 x M.2 2280 NVMe for cache | not published |
| Firewall throughput | not published | 5 Gbps with inspection disabled |
| IPsec VPN throughput | not published | About 4.4 Gbps |
| Memory | 4 GB DDR4 ECC, expandable to 32 GB | not published |
| Network ports | 2 x Gigabit Ethernet, 10 GbE via expansion card | not published |
| Port count | not published | 5 x Gigabit Ethernet |
| Processor | AMD Ryzen R1600 dual-core 2.6 GHz | not published |
| RAID levels | Basic, JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10 | not published |
| Subscriptions | not published | FortiGuard bundle sold separately and renewed annually |
| Threat protection throughput | not published | About 900 Mbps with security profiles enabled |
Every row is a figure one or both products record. A blank is a figure the catalogue does not hold, not a zero.
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