Comparison of D-Link ShareCenter Cloud Storage 2000 and ZyXEL NAS542

The side-by-side comparison of the devices’ specifications. The comparison table below makes it easier to choose the most fitting NAS.

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Launch	2012	2016
Class	Small office / Home office	Small office / Home office
Body
Dimensions	193.3 x 144.3 x 90 mm	190 x 225 x 160 mm
Weight	640 g	2 kg
Disks
Disk bays	2 x 3.5" SATA II	4 x 3.5" SATA II
RAID	JBOD RAID0 RAID1	JBOD RAID0 RAID1 RAID10 RAID5 RAID6
SSD support	no	no
Network
LAN ports	1 x Gigabit Ethernet	2 x Gigabit Ethernet
Wireless	no	no
Protocols	AFP CIFS/SMB FTP HTTP	AFP CIFS/SMB FTP HTTP ISCSI NFS WEBDAV
P2P support	BitTorrent	BitTorrent
Media server	DLNA UPnP	DLNA Squeezebox UPnP iTunes
Cloud backup	Amazon S3 D-Link Vault Google Drive	Dropbox Google Drive
Connectivity
USB ports	1 x USB 2.0	3 x USB 3.0
eSATA ports	no	no
System
CPU	Marvell Kirkwood 88F6702A @ 1 GHz	Freescale ARMv7 Cortex-A9 dual-core @ 1.2 GHz
RAM	256 MB	1 GB DDR3
Flash	128 MB	256 MB
Operating system	D-Link	ZyXEL
Alternative OS	Arch Linux OpenWRT
Power
Power supply	12 V / 3 A	19 V / 4.74 A
Consuption	15.7 W / 8.2 W	36.5 W / 14.8 W
Fans	1 x 40 mm	1 x 120 mm
Noise level
Features
Specials		Failover and link aggregation SD card reader
Administration
Default IP	DHCP	DHCP
Default username	admin	admin
Default password	[blank]	1234

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