Today we have the DiskStation DS216+ on hand, Synology's latest dual-core 2-bay NAS built around the Intel Celeron N3050 SoC. Key features of the DS216+ include AES-NI hardware encryption, BTRFS support, 4K UHD transcoding and of course the latest DSM 6.0 operating system...

My first review of a Synology DiskStation feels like a life time ago now, amazingly it has been 7 years since we published our DS409+ review back in 2009. Even back then Synology's NAS devices were more than just? well a Network Attached Storage device. Applications such as Photo Station, Audio Station and Download Station for example already existed, and although they have evolved beyond recognition, we got a glimpse of where things were headed 7 years ago.

Today Synology's DiskStation product line can't even really be described as ?NAS? products anymore, rather they are full blown servers that can handle everything from Cloud based storage to 4K UHD transcoding.