Ds216play plex12/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Thankfully, then, Synology does realise it's offering less in some areas compared to the DS214play and has priced the new NAS accordingly. However, the pricing of the two units does reflect this - the DS214play currently costs around £230 and the DS216play undercuts this by a significant amount at around £200. ![]() Thanks to its Intel Atom CPU, it also supports Plex, whereas the DS216play currently does not. However, that's mostly what the DS216play is about - it's otherwise a comparatively underwhelming upgrade compared to the DS214play, which in addition, offered a front USB port and flash card reader, a one-touch copy button, additional USB 3 port and eSATA port. Power consumption sat at 16W idle and rose to a peak of 19.4W under load.ĬonclusionThe fact the DS216play can transcode 4K video, albeit in fairly limited circumstances, is quite an achievement and takes another bite out of the argument that using a small PC is still best if you want maximum flexibility and capability when it comes to streaming and transcoding video. This could, of course, be down to changes in the OS, which has been tweaked since we reviewed the aforementioned models so we can't pin too much on these results. Just as our own manual file test that we ran to cross-check the results demonstrated exceptional read speeds, it also showed the DS216play to have mediocre performance when writing folders filled with mixed small files. ![]()
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