Synology DS214PLAY + 2x 4TB DS214PLAY/8TBSTX/KIT User Manual

Synology DS214play is a ready media server specifically designed for users to 

enjoy maximized fun on their NAS device. DS214play comes with dual core 

CPU and 1GB RAM, aligning it with top-class consumer NAS today, delivering 

an average 111MB/sec reading and 101MB/sec writing speed under RAID 1 

configuration in a Windows

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 environment. The built-in floating-point unit not 

only enhances the overall capability of the main CPU but shows particular 

advantage in speeding up thumbnail processing, making photo viewing on 

DS214play a refreshingly new experience. Powered by hardware accelerated 

transcoding engine, DS214play features 1080p Full HD video transcoding on the 

fly. Now users can enjoy on-demand high-quality video transcoding offered 

exclusively by DS214play.

With DS214play you can easily manage your multimedia contents and share 

them across Windows, Mac

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, and Linux

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 platforms. Photo Station’s intuitive 

design allows you to effortlessly organize photos into customized categories, 

smart albums and blog posts, and link them to social networking websites like 

Facebook, Twitter, Plurk and Picasa within a few clicks. Audio Station comes with 

built-in lyrics plugin, Internet radio, and support for DLNA, AirPlay

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, and Bluetooth 

speakers for quality playback. With Video Station, you can watch movies and TV 

shows online or record your favorite programs with a DVB-T/DVB-S stick.

DS214play also comes with comprehensive external storage integration, 

providing two SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and one eSATA interfaces in the back, one SD 

card and one USB 2.0 interface in the front panel, along with the Copy button 

that enables one-click data replication from your SD/USB device to DS214play. 

Designed with both safety and convenience in mind, DS214play contains the 

brand new tool-less hard drive trays, allowing users to fixate 3.5” hard drives 

without screws and drivers. Meanwhile, DS214play supports hot-swappable hard 

drive trays for instant and risk-free hard disk replacement. 

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 DiskStation DS214play is a two-bay NAS designed to serve as your 

ultimate media center. Optimized for multimedia processing, DS214play aims to 
fulfill increasing need for high-quality photo, music and video streaming, while 
keeping all other aspects of NAS uncompromised.