While the DS213+ NAS from Synology is not from the same league as the last Atom D2700 4-bay NASes that have passed though our labs, the product sports good performances for both read/write transfers and includes a Dual Core processor at 1.067GHz with Floating Point (Freescale QorIQ CPU to be more exact) and also 512MB of DDR3 (not upgradeable). The DS213+ is concentrated on low power consumption and after the OS initialization, with only a single 320GB 2.5’’ Western Digital Scorpio Black installed, we have recorded a value of 17.62W so we won’t have to worry about expensive power bills.

The chassis of the DS213+ looks like a compact version of the DS413 or DS412+, is very light and comes with plastic trays equipped with vibration dampening properties. Also, the included fan is silent and can be barely heard even when we have SSDs installed into the NAS.

DSM is one of the most advanced a user friendly NAS operating systems and from version to version we are used to see improvements and new available applications. From the apps that we enjoy most we can enumerate Antivirus Essential, Audio Station, Photo Station or Media Server. 3rd party apps can be also installed with ease, one example would be Prestashop.

We have seen that companies like ASUSTOR and QNAP have started integrating video outputs on their NASes for connecting the product right to our Full-HD TV and watch movies. In the future revisions, we will see ports like these for Synology NASes too (like they have been presented at CeBIT 2013) and we are really curious how their media center interface will look like.

The Synology Disk Station DS213+ NAS Server can be found online for about 315 Euros.

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We would like to thank again to Synology for offering the sample for review.