Synology 2GB DS418 4 Bay Desktop NAS Enclosure

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One of the defining features of the new ASUS ExpertWiFi family of networking devices is the Guest Portal. Additionally, only fairly recent model TV and smartphones can even play back 4K video at all, and not always well. That said, when you combine this enclosure with several NAS drives, it is an expensive network upgrade, so it's important to weigh up the pros and cons to figure out if the DS418play is right for you. The DS418play is built around a now slightly dated Intel Celeron J3355 dual-core CPU, which can burst up to 2.

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Adding extra RAM is well worth doing, and is as simple as taking out the drives and slotting your new stick in. Private cloud storage service - you get access to apps for all platforms, and you can create your version of Dropbox or OneDrive. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. The Synology DS418play is an interesting NAS box, in that it’s highly geared towards lovers of 4K media but omits related functionality such as an HDMI port.Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. However, you can extend it to be anything you wish, from a personal cloud storage solution to a multimedia server, or a storage solution for a surveillance system. With the DS418play, it can adjust the resolution of that video to suit the playback device – for example, transcoding that 4K footage to 1080p. You may need to pin to the taskbar the apps you use frequently or remove icons for apps or Windows features you don’t use.

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We have a powerful wireless router that offers this feature, and setting it up on Synology DiskStation DS418 was easy.

Link aggregation is useful when multiple clients want to access data from the NAS at the same time, for load balancing and failover. Well, on a NAS without it, streamed media is sent to the playback device (be that a TV, computer or smartphone) which then decodes it and plays the content.

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While the web interface is an excellent way to manage the NAS, Synology also offers apps for smartphone or tablet control. As mentioned, we found that the NAS can get a little noisy under load, but it does a pretty decent job of containing the hard drive noise considering its compact size. That said, for more advanced users, having the option to aggregate the two network ports together is great.Round the back, the 418play has dual Gigabit LAN ports, which support both link aggregation and failover.