A couple of years ago I looked at the DS214play, Synology's network attached server designed for multimedia playback. Since then Synology has updated their Play line with the DS415play ? a four-bay NAS capable of housing 32 TB total storage. That's a lot of media capacity!

The DS415play features an Intel Atom1.6 GHz dual core processor with one gigabyte DDR3 RAM, three USB 2.0 and two USB 3.0 ports. It is capable of video transcoding within the NAS box itself and then serving this media to DLNA compliant devices within the home network.

While it looks almost identical to its bigger more powerful brother the DS415+, the DS415play is designed more for multimedia then power usage. However, this does not mean it cannot function as a standard NAS either.