Cheapest price i've found online for the Synology DS216play with built in 4k transcoding.
• Centralise and back up your digital contents, which you can share easily across platforms and devices
• Diskless model – no hard drives are installed in the two bays available, with each bay able to hold up to 8TB
• Over 107MB/s read and 91MB/s write speeds, under a RAID 1 configuration
• Automatically back up your Windows or Mac computer to this NAS drive
• Keep files or backups stored on the NAS safe with backups to a USB, the cloud or to another Synology NAS and RAID configurations available
• DLNA certified media server, so you can stream music, pictures and videos to DLNA compliant devices without pre-configuration
• Number of different apps for Apple iOS and Android devices, such as DS file for browsing and uploading files
• Backup stored files to Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, hicloud and other cloud services
• Two years limited manufacturer warranty
Top comments
BigYoSpeck to Alex Theory
11 Nov 167#7
People will be voting cold because cheap servers like the HP, Dell or Lenovo units you see are cheaper with the cashback offers.
Of course that completely ignores the simplicity of plugging one of these in and the power consumption differences but hey ho.
K13OllieD
11 Nov 165#13
Why are you wasting CPU transcoding?
Are your client devices that poor?
Or are your network links insufficient for HD content?
I really don't understand why people are transcoding these days.
benjai to sslesar
11 Nov 164#6
Doesn't include brains either.
All comments (39)
Alex Theory
11 Nov 16#1
Those voting cold, please tell me where it's cheaper so I can cancel my order and re-buy! :smile:
BigYoSpeck to Alex Theory
11 Nov 167#7
People will be voting cold because cheap servers like the HP, Dell or Lenovo units you see are cheaper with the cashback offers.
Of course that completely ignores the simplicity of plugging one of these in and the power consumption differences but hey ho.
paulj48
11 Nov 16#2
wish they'd add an HDMI connection to these.
Al666
11 Nov 16#3
any cheap 4tb disks about?
sslesar
11 Nov 161#4
Cold, not included hdd
benjai to sslesar
11 Nov 164#6
Doesn't include brains either.
dante2000
11 Nov 16#5
I am not voting anyway but I think the HP microserver with the cashback at around 120 is a better deal. It has also 4 bays
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• Centralise and back up your digital contents, which you can share easily across platforms and devices
• Diskless model – no hard drives are installed in the two bays available, with each bay able to hold up to 8TB
• Over 107MB/s read and 91MB/s write speeds, under a RAID 1 configuration
• Automatically back up your Windows or Mac computer to this NAS drive
• Keep files or backups stored on the NAS safe with backups to a USB, the cloud or to another Synology NAS and RAID configurations available
• DLNA certified media server, so you can stream music, pictures and videos to DLNA compliant devices without pre-configuration
• Number of different apps for Apple iOS and Android devices, such as DS file for browsing and uploading files
• Backup stored files to Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, hicloud and other cloud services
• Two years limited manufacturer warranty
Top comments
Of course that completely ignores the simplicity of plugging one of these in and the power consumption differences but hey ho.
Are your client devices that poor?
Or are your network links insufficient for HD content?
I really don't understand why people are transcoding these days.
All comments (39)
Of course that completely ignores the simplicity of plugging one of these in and the power consumption differences but hey ho.
apparently you can also install http://www.freenas.org/for-home/ to it.
https://www.synology.com/en-uk/products/compare/DS216play/DS216j