Synology give a two year warranty on the hardware. In addition to the USB port and USBCopy button, the front panel has a power switch and four LED indicators for Status, LAN connection and one for each of the internal drives. 6.5” high, 4.25” wide and 9.2” deep and weighs in at about 2.8 lbs. It also supports HFS+ but only as Read-Only and with a maximum volume size of 2TB. The server configures the internal drives in the EXT4 format but supports multiple file formats for any external drives attached via USB, including EXT4, EXT3, FAT and NTFS (Mac OS X Journaled).
There is also a single gigabit Ethernet port on the back for connection to your local network router. The server includes 1 USB 2.0 port mounted on the front of the case along with a USBCopy button to allow for easy data loading and also includes 2 USB 3.0 ports on the back for fast data transfer to attached external drives or connection of a shared printer.
The drives are mounted in hot swappable drive trays that allow for quick, tool free installation. It will support drives up to 8TBs for a maximum capacity of 16TB, which is also the maximum single volume size.
The unit is sold as a diskless enclosure and supports a wide variety of 3.5” and 2.5” SATA III and SATA II Hard Disk and Solid State Drives. It runs a 32-bit, Dual Core 1.3GHz Marvell Armada 385 CPU and has 512 MB of DDR3 system memory. The Synology DS216 NAS is a 2-bay NAS server. So we thought it made sense to take a look at some of the options available to you and we start with the Synology DiskStation DS216 NAS. That’s where Network Attached Storage (“NAS”) comes in, and the choices available are growing. If you want to share that data with others, a plain external hard drive isn’t enough.
As we all collect more and more data, the need to store that data off of our physical computer grows.