vortez.net Updated:
2013-11-21 01:02:48
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£216 Inc. VAT (At time of review)The end of the year is upon us and as usual, Synology are on hand with their latest, 2014 edition NAS solutions. This week, Synology announced their new DS214. The DS214 is a 2-bay NAS with some subtle improvements ove...
Pleasing to the eye, Great build quality, Dual-core support, 2.5” and 3.5” drive support, Excellent performance, Low fan noise, Feature rich operating system...
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It’s crystal clear why Synology remain a dominating force in the NAS storage sector. Whilst at the hardware level subtle changes are made, it is their persistence at the software level that realises the true success.The decision to integrate a dual-co...
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Synology have been one of the key players in the Network Attached Storage Devices for some time now, and each new DiskStation model is eagerly anticipated. The DS214 is no exception with it first being teased at Computex in June of this year, along...
Easy to setup, Great flexibility with storage, Plenty of processing power and RAM, Great Operating System, Lots of apps/packages, Good integration with mobile devices...
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The Synology DiskStation DS214 is a feature rich 2-bay NAS device featuring the latest addition of the highly-acclaimed Disk Manager Operating System.For the general user, the DS214 will allow you to store all your photos and videos on one device and then...
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Enter Synology and their NAS range, your own personal cloud; sync all your data, documents, photos, media to a single box that is accessible through all devices on your network. Today we look at the brand new DS214, a dual-bay offering aimed at home/sm...
At one time or another I'm sure the majority of people will have lost files, either through negligence, hardware failure or Coca-cola. Never has there been a better time to start looking at home backup solutions but a NAS can be so much more than that...
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Product names and model numbers come in all shapes and sizes. You've got long ones you can't even remember, to very short and concise ones. Fortunately Synology falls in the latter category. The DS114 and DS214 we're looking at today would seem to be cl...
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NAS devices are the all-in-one kitchen appliance, the jack of all trades of the home network. They can do one thing, they can do many things, and often you don't even need all of the features. While it's great to own a £350 top-of-the-line model, it doe...
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The Bring-Your-Own-Disks home server market might not be mainstream but it's pretty lively place, with giants like Cisco mixing with obscure Taiwanese box-shifters. And although these quiet, sub-£400 servers make a useful bit of small office kit, the abu...
A home NAS box is a bit like an iPad - you don't really need one but once you have one, so many things - from backups to photo sharing - are that much easier. Synology's no-nonsense UI and ever-improving hardware are setting the pace in this competitive...
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This is a simple, fast 2-drive network drive for small studios to keep their projects safe on. The DS214 is Synology’s new two-bay NAS enclosure in its DiskStation range. Shipping without disks, it supports up to 8 TB of storage with a pair of 4 TB drive...
Faster dualcore drive chi, 512MB RA, supports DSM 4.3 for media streamin, backup and file sharing...
No SD card slot like predecessor...
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The NAS market has grown exponentially over the last few years fuelled by peoples ever expanding media collections and personal devices. It is now becoming essential for a backup solution of some description to store our ever growing collection of digital...
At one time or another I'm sure the majority of people will have lost files, either through negligence, hardware failure or Coca-cola. Never has there been a better time to start looking at home backup solutions but a NAS can be so much more than that as...
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Though the DS214 looks identical to the DS213 and 212, internal upgrades push it to the speed limit of network attached storage.The DS214 is Synology's new two-bay NAS enclosure in its DiskStation range. Shipping without disks, it supports up to 8 TB of s...
Faster dualcore drive chip, 512MB RAM, supports DSM 4.3 for media streaming, backup and file sharing...
No SD card slot...
Synology's consumer NAS products continue to impress. The DS214's good looks haven't changed, but it delivers strong writing performance, where other lower-cost units do not. But the real draw remains the easy-to-use and configurable DSM 4.3 operating sys...
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Bells and Whistles The Synology DS214 is one such device that came into PC.com for review. A dual-bay NAS device, it supports up to 8TBs of storage, has a wide variety of RAID formats, and offers hot-swap capabilities. The latter allows you to easily repl...
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Synology is probably one of the best-known names when it comes to Network Attached Storage, or NAS for short. This Taiwanese company has been making NAS devices since the year 2000 and they are pretty good at it, considering the fact that they keep introd...
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hardwareunboxed.com Updated:
2014-01-19 07:45:27
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Today we are checking out the DS214 and DS214play, both are 2-bay NAS devices from Synology’s latest DSx14 series. The DS214 is designed for small office/home office usage while the DS214play is focused on home multimedia applications. Moreover the DS2...
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Related News and ReviewsSynology DS214play Announced, Synology's First Media-Centric DiskStation Synology DiskStation DS214play Review Synology Releases DSM 5.0 Operating System Synology DiskStation DS414 Review Synology NAS Solutions Synology DS1813+...
Strong performance in sequential and mixed workloads, Tool-less hot-swappable drives, Cross platform file sharing and easy mobile access...
No SD-card reader...
The Synology DiskStation DS214 is a marriage of performance, capacity, and affordability. The DS214 allows users to share files across different platforms and access files remotely. While it's cheaper than the more high end "+" version, users also sac...
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