Synology 2 Bay Nas Diskstation Ds218play

this is the Synology ds2 1/8 play it is a budget Nasir network attached storage for people who don't quite know and it's fairly impressive for its price point features a 64-bit Realtek quad-core running I think about 1.0 1.3 gigahertz so certainly a low-power chip there uses 1 gigabyte of RAM and it's kind of main headline feature the thing that they specifically asked me to kind of test and check out is the 4k encoding and transcoding feature built into the NASS but before we get into that let's take a look at the actual hardware itself do a bit of a tour so on the front you have the standard notification LEDs as well as the power button on the back you have obviously the fan exhaust as well as Gigabit Ethernet 2 USB 3 ports and the DCM on both sides on us you have a Synology logo which actually acts as a bit of ventilation and I just want to mention that the NASS itself uses a matte p