

Is a breeze, but adding a disk can take hours to initialise within the system.įor example, adding a 4TB drive to our existing 6TB volume took over a day.Ģ160p/UHD/4K video to your 1080p television, PC, smartphone or tablet provided Mobile devices via the DS video mobile app for offline playback. Read more iDrive One review: The faster, more affordable, nearly portable personal cloudĪrticle is on the DS216+’s multimedia chops and the 6.0 update adds someĬritical features here including the beautifully-redesigned Video Station andĭS Video which now allows you to pre-transcode a video and then download it to DSM 6.0 also expands support for Btrfsįile system to other Synology NAS equipped with select 64-bit processors.

Such as Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive. New on-premise email server and MailPlus client that supports up to five usersįor free and the ability to backup the NAS to external cloud storage services There’s a private cloud collaboration suite including Spreadsheet and Note Station, Tested the DS216+ using the new 6.0 update which adds a host of useful

User-friendly and feature-rich operating system found on any NAS device. Impressive DiskStation Manager (DSM) software which, in our minds, is the most Included), the DS216+ is the cheapest Synology NAS to support the Btrfs (B-tree) file system which enablesįeatures like point-in-time snapshot and restore, built-in data integrityĬhecks, metadata mirroring and quota control for shared folders. Made backing up photos from a DSLR camera a lot more convenient. Older, slower 2.0 variety and there’s also no SD card slot which would have Unfortunately, the rear USB ports are of the Port on the front with a USB copy button directly below it for fast and easyīack up of external USB drives. Gigabit Ethernet port, 2 x USB and an eSATA port while there’s a single USB 3.0 To 16TB of storage and the entire design is tool-less which makes installingĪnd removing drives extremely quick and easy. Hot-swappable SATA cages support either 2.5” or 3.5” drives so you can add up Isn’t upgradeable so you’re locked in at a fairly-limited memory capacity. Ships with only 1GB of RAM onboard and unlike previous Synology models, it
