When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The DS918+ has numerous apps you can install from the App Center, but if you want to deploy a ...

However, this is only the starting point for the DS918+. Within DSM you can install add-on packages, and it is these that transform the DS918+ from a regular old NAS to what is really a home or ...

Hardware transcoding unlike software transcoding, relies on the server’s CPU to convert media files into different formats, hardware transcoding offloads this intensive task to a dedicated component ...

There's a difference between decoding and transcoding when it comes to media playback over the network. The former is the simple process of the NAS sending a media file to a recipient device for ...

Privately owned network attached storage — or NAS — vendor, Synology, has released its latest DiskStation NAS, the DS 918+, and it’s a truly impressive piece of kit, richly augmented by add-on ...