
For a start, there’s no screwdriver needed here: just pop off the front panel, slide out a drive tray and clip your 3.5in hard disks into place. The provided quick-start guide is pretty minimal, but the NAS does make life easy for you during setup. It does feel like it won’t pick up scratches too easily, and the shiny faceplate adds a touch of style. It’s a plain-looking NAS, with a no-nonsense matte black case this is in contrast to the shiny white plastic of the home-orientated models. The DS216 runs the latest DSM 6 operating system, which provides a friendly, mouse-driven interface that you can access through a web browser. You’ll also find one USB on the front and two USB 3 ports on the rear, to plug in hard disks, TV tuners or wireless dongles, along with Gigabit Ethernet. Since it’s an office model, it has a quick processor to help with fast file transfers: a dual-core 1.3GHz model, compared to the 1GHz chip in the DS216j. This is a two-bay NAS, so your data is protected if one disk fails, and it supports 3.5in hard disks as well as 2.5in hard disks and SSDs. Related: Buffalo LinkStation 520D review Synology DS216 – Specifications and Design It’s more expensive than Synology’s home-orientated DS216j, but it’s quicker and has useful extra features such as hot-swappable hard disks and one-touch copy from flash drives to the NAS.
SYNOLOGY DRIVE TRAY KEY TRIAL
A free trial is available for each newly registered account. Total storage capacity may vary depending on hard drives used and RAID configuration.Ĭ2 Storage for Hyper Backup and Hybrid Share requires purchase of an eligible annual or monthly subscription. Storage figure calculated based on a RAID 5 configuration.
SYNOLOGY DRIVE TRAY KEY SERIES
Synology SNV3400 series M.2 NVMe SSD drives can be installed through the built-in M.2 slots to enable SSD caching or create SSD storage pools. Refer to the compatibility list for compatible devices. PCIe add-in cards, expansion units, and storage drives are sold separately. See performance charts for more information. Actual performance may vary depending on the testing environment, usage, and configuration.

Performance figures are obtained through internal testing by Synology.
SYNOLOGY DRIVE TRAY KEY SOFTWARE
Actual performance may vary depending on hardware and software configuration, workload, and testing environment.

Based on internal processor benchmarks between DS923+ and the prior-gen DS920+.
