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Comparison of Synology DiskStation DS216j and ZyXEL NAS542

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Synology DiskStation DS216j (DS216J)
Synology DiskStation DS216j (DS216J)
ZyXEL NAS542 (NAS542)
ZyXEL NAS542 (NAS542)
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Launch 2016 2016
Class Small office / Home office Small office / Home office
Body
Dimensions 165 x 100 x 225.5 mm 190 x 225 x 160 mm
Weight 880 g 2 kg
Disks
Disk bays 2 x 3.5" SATA III 4 x 3.5" SATA II
RAID JBOD
RAID0
RAID1
Synology Hybrid RAID
JBOD
RAID0
RAID1
RAID10
RAID5
RAID6
SSD support yes no
Network
LAN ports 1 x Gigabit Ethernet 2 x Gigabit Ethernet
Wireless yes, with USB dongle no
Protocols AFP
CIFS/SMB
FTP
ISCSI
NFS
WEBDAV
AFP
CIFS/SMB
FTP
HTTP
ISCSI
NFS
WEBDAV
P2P support BitTorrent
eMule
BitTorrent
Media server DLNA
UPnP
iTunes
DLNA
Squeezebox
UPnP
iTunes
Cloud backup Amazon S3
Box
Dropbox
Google Drive
Microsoft OneDrive
Dropbox
Google Drive
Connectivity
USB ports 2 x USB 3.0 3 x USB 3.0
eSATA ports no no
System
CPU Marvell Armada 385 88F6820 dual-core @ 1 GHz Freescale ARMv7 Cortex-A9 dual-core @ 1.2 GHz
RAM 512 MB 1 GB DDR3
Flash   256 MB
Operating system Synology DSM ZyXEL
Alternative OS    
Power
Power supply 12 V / 5 A 19 V / 4.74 A
Consuption 14.85 W / 6.95 W 36.5 W / 14.8 W
Fans 1 x 92 mm 1 x 120 mm
Noise level 18.2 dB(A)  
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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