Ds213=ds212+????

[Milhouse]

Anybody knows if is there are any differences between "the new" DS213 and the just "9 months old" DS 212+?? Aren't the same??

DS213 specs

DS212+ specs

 

[thiggins]

http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/What_kind_of_CPU_does_my_NAS_have

You're right. Looks like a renumbering.

 

[stevech]

I recall reading that the last two digits of their model numbers are the year of introduction, e.g., my DS212 was first shipped in 2012.

 

[raiko]

DS-213 as no esata? Also, there has a little bit difference on power consumption!

 

[stevech]

On the DS212, I decided that USB3 is good enough, and though I'd like eSATA, the external drive is not a boot or RAID drive, and USB3 seems faster than the overhead to write in NTFS format on that drive. (I didn't want this external backup drive to be in ext4 format... because I wanted it easily readable on a Windows PC).

My brief speed tests with the DS212 doing backups via USB3 to the NTFS format showed it was much faster than NTFS used to be under Linux. Using FAT32 was not viable.. file size limit and issues with file creation/modified dates in FAT32.

 

[waller]

I was looking at the DS212+ to store my music and videos for streaming. However, I wonder if the upgrade to the DS213+ would be worth it? Any thoughts?

 

[stevech]

212+ or 213+ (the +) is arguably an overkill for residential users.
But then, I'm a bit of a miser.