Following on from my recent review of Synology’s DS213j 2-bay system, I’ve been invited to take a look at a system that is more geared for the SOHO (small office home office_ market. This is the DS414 and for those who understand the naming system that Synology have adopted, it is possible to recognise that this is the newer version of the DS413. Up to this point, there has not been much information to be found in the open about this system, but to give a quick run down in comparison to the DS413 the identical looking DS414 offers up a better CPU, better RAID controller and at a price that is more competitive. There have been rumours circulating that this system will be home to a CPU capable of transcoding media on the fly, but I can confirm this is not the case. Thankfully there is a separate system that is launching very soon which does have this capability and a review for this will appear in due course.



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