DISKSTATION MANAGER PART 2

Synology offers a somewhat basic Anti-Virus software which is accessible from their Package Center and start menu (if you have installed it already). It may not have many features and it does take almost 50% of the units resources when used (side bar) but it's quite fast.

The Audio Station has been redesigned since the last time we used it and as the name clearly states from here you can playback audio files stored in the NAS and also listen to a large number of Internet Radio stations based on Shoutcast and RadioIO.

The Download Station can be used for direct FTP/HTTP and P2P BitTorrent/eMule file downloads.

The now 6th version of the Surveillance Station is also a lot different and more feature rich since Synology has registered a huge number of compatible IP cameras and given it many settings for the end user. However unfortunately once again (and exactly like QNAP) by default you only have a single IP camera license so you will have to buy more in order to use more IP cameras.

Moving away from applications for a minute i would like to point to the brand new revamped resource monitor which is a lot like the one found in Windows 8 (looks great and offers a wealth of information regarding the current state of the system).

Cloud Station 2 now supports almost an unlimited number of shared folders for file sharing with a size cap of up to 10GB for each file. As expected it comes ready with several administrative tools and encryption security for easy SMB deployment.

The Video Station tab is actually brand new and whenever you click on a media file it will try to download information on it (for example we ripped our Skyfall Blu-ray to test with the DS213+ and it had no problem detecting it). The entire layout is very clean and easy to use but unfortunately every time we fast forwarded the movie (or went backwards) it took quite a bit of time to do so (perhaps the CPU can't handle very heavy media files with ease).