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November 2014
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5 USB ports (2 USB 3.0 and 3 USB 2.0)
Wide range of downloadable apps
Extremely quiet
Easy to install
Easy to use
Beautiful and intuitive UI
Great read/write speeds
Nice design
Impressive data transfer rates for internal drives
Full speed data transfers for USB 3.0 connected drives
Hardware video transcoding can improve video streaming to your device
DSM 5.0 makes administrating the NAS server simple
Low power cons
Additional bays helpful for streaming larger libraries
Video-transcoder off-loads CPU usage well
Lots of features and capabilities to leverage with DSM 5.0
Solid build quality with some robust hardware under the hood
Clean
Userfriendly interface
Simple enough for home use
But with enough features for an enterprise environment
Includes an effective media transcoder
Supports many different cloud services
Great design
Easy-to-use OS
Excellent separation of features into "basic" and "advanced" modes
Good streaming performance and compatibility
Lots of third-party apps
Auto-updating and power scheduling
Transcodes 1080p
Simple setup
Intuitive user interface – Disk Station Manager
Works with Linux
OS X or Windows
Energy Efficient
Two USB 3.0 ports
Near silent operation
Accessible in File Explorer
DLNA certified
Simple
Easytonavigate interface.
Fresh
Easy
The editors didn't like
Muy expensivo
No HDMI or optical audio ports
Not all that much
Although I could see the plastic hard drive rails not being very durable in the long run
Hardware video transcoding comes at a premium price
Would prefer a USB 3.0 port up front
Please drop by the Bigbruin.com Forum and feel free to post any comments or questions.
Only one Gigabit Ethernet port
No HDMI port
No physical security for the drives
Front USB 2.0 port will make for slow transfers from a flash drive
A bit pricey
Can be noisy (with four drives)
A touch sluggish
If you really start eating up a lot of the NAS box's resources
Lacks quad core processor
DTS playback is absent
Plex does not take advantage of Evansport transcoding
Synology's DS415play Network Application Server retails for about $500 (Amazon Link). Compared to the DS415+ that we reviewed earlier, this model seems to come in with a slightly less expensive price with the added benefit of offloading on the fly transco...
Great design, Easy-to-use OS, Excellent separation of features into "basic" and "advanced" modes, Good streaming performance and compatibility, Lots of third-party apps, Auto-updating and power scheduling
A bit pricey, Can be noisy (with four drives), A touch sluggish, if you really start eating up a lot of the NAS box's resources
This investment-grade four-bay NAS is easy to use and offers software features galore for neophytes and advanced users alike, not to mention hardware transcoding for multiple streams of 1080p video. (If you don't care about the transcoding, however, you...
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Published: 2015-10-03, Author: Tomas , review by: technogog.com
Transcodes 1080p, Simple setup, Userfriendly interface, Intuitive user interface – Disk Station Manager, Works with Linux, OS X or Windows, Energy Efficient, Two USB 3.0 ports, Near silent operation
Lacks quad core processor, DTS playback is absent, Plex does not take advantage of Evansport transcoding
Comparing the DS214play with the DS415play spec wise shows that they are pretty similar in all respects except for storage capacity. They both have a 1.6 Ghz Intel Atom dual core processor and one GB of DDR3 memory. The main difference is the four bays of...
Solid build quality with some robust hardware under the hood, Clean, userfriendly interface, Simple enough for home use, but with enough features for an enterprise environment, Includes an effective media transcoder, Supports many different cloud services
No physical security for the drives, Front USB 2.0 port will make for slow transfers from a flash drive
It's pretty amazing to think about how far we've come with regards to pictures, music, and videos in general, but even more so when you stop to think about how we're converting them from a format that may only last decades into something that could potent...
Published: 2015-01-11, Author: stefan , review by: madshrimps.be
Synology presents itself with another high-quality NAS model, the DS415Play which is oriented to home users with plenty of multimedia content for playback on different devices. Thanks to the Intel solution, unsupported file formats will be converted for d...
Additional bays helpful for streaming larger libraries, Video-transcoder off-loads CPU usage well, Lots of features and capabilities to leverage with DSM 5.0
Only one Gigabit Ethernet port, No HDMI port
The Synology DS415play is a 4-bay NAS aimed at home users with large digital media stores. With built in transcoding ability, users can stream the multimedia library in HD through multiple devices and with QuickConnect, they can stream anywhere around the...
Creating a bigger 4-bay version of the original DS214play makes a lot of sense and for most users the DS415play will fit the bill nicely. Now that users have the option of 5TB and 6TB hard drives, a 4-bay NAS can provide a great deal of storage.However wh...
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Published: 2014-08-22, Author: Jason , review by: bigbruin.com
Impressive data transfer rates for internal drives, Full speed data transfers for USB 3.0 connected drives, Hardware video transcoding can improve video streaming to your device, DSM 5.0 makes administrating the NAS server simple, Low power cons
Hardware video transcoding comes at a premium price, Would prefer a USB 3.0 port up front, Please drop by the Bigbruin.com Forum and feel free to post any comments or questions.
The Synology Diskstation DS415play 4-bay NAS server was reviewed on the heels of our review of the DS414j, and I wasn't sure there was much more to be expected. At just over $400 (without drives) the DS414j is considered a budget conscious offering from S...
