Comparison of Western Digital My Book Live and Synology DiskStation DS216+II

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	Low end	Small office / Home office
Body
Dimensions	167 x 139 x 50 mm	165 x 108 x 233.2 mm
Weight	1.09 kg	1.25 kg
Disks
Disk bays	1 x 3.5" SATA II	2 x 3.5" SATA III
RAID	no	JBOD RAID0 RAID1 Synology Hybrid RAID
SSD support	no	yes
Network
LAN ports	1 x Gigabit Ethernet	1 x Gigabit Ethernet
Wireless	no	no
Protocols	AFP CIFS/SMB FTP NFS	AFP CIFS/SMB FTP ISCSI NFS WEBDAV
P2P support	no	BitTorrent eMule
Media server	DLNA UPnP iTunes	DLNA UPnP iTunes
Cloud backup	no	Amazon S3 Box Dropbox Google Drive Microsoft OneDrive
Connectivity
USB ports	no	2 x USB 2.0 1 x USB 3.0
eSATA ports	no	1 x eSATA
System
CPU	Applied Micro APM82181 @ 800 MHz	Intel Celeron N3060 dual-core @ 1.6 GHz
RAM	256 MB	1 GB
Flash	512 kB
Operating system	WD My Book OS	Synology DSM
Alternative OS
Power
Power supply	12 V / 1.5 A	12 V / 5 A
Consuption		17.4 W / 7.4 W
Fans	fanless	1 x 92 mm
Noise level		18.2 dB(A)
Features
Specials		4k UHD transcoding
Administration
Default IP	DHCP	DHCP
Default username	admin	admin
Default password	admin	[blank]

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