Comparison of Buffalo LinkStation 210 and Synology DiskStation DS216

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	2015	2015
Class	Small office / Home office	Small office / Home office
Body
Dimensions	205 x 45 x 128 mm	165 x 108 x 233.2 mm
Weight	1.1 kg	1.3 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 HTTP	AFP CIFS/SMB FTP ISCSI NFS WEBDAV
P2P support	BitTorrent	BitTorrent eMule
Media server	DLNA iTunes	DLNA UPnP iTunes
Cloud backup	no	Amazon S3 Box Dropbox Google Drive Microsoft OneDrive
Connectivity
USB ports	1 x USB 2.0	1 x USB 2.0 2 x USB 3.0
eSATA ports	no	no
System
CPU	Marvell Armada 370 88F6707 @ 800 MHz	Marvell Armada 385 88F6820 dual-core @ 1.3 GHz
RAM	256 MB	512 MB
Flash		16 MB
Operating system	Buffalo	Synology DSM
Alternative OS
Power
Power supply	12 V / 2 A	12 V / 5 A
Consuption	18 W	15.48 W / 7.2 W
Fans	fanless	1 x 92 mm
Noise level		18 dB(A)
Features
Specials
Administration
Default IP	DHCP	DHCP
Default username	admin	admin
Default password	password	[blank]

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