- Brand Name: Synology
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Product,
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This review is from: SYNOLOGY NAS DS207+ 2 BAY BARE BONE UNIT RAID 0 1 W ADS SUPPORT SATA2 USB (Personal Computers)
I've had this device for a few months now and I'm very happy with it. I had tried the Western Digital product "My World Book II" 2TB device only to find that it's network data rate was extremely poor - write speeds of around 5 Mb/sec. This is with it connected through a gigabit switch to a gigabit computer. I next purchased a Lacie 2TB drive, although it was better than the WD product, it also was slow. My third attempt at getting a fast 2TB NAS device was successful with the DS207+. It typically takes me a little less than a minute (45-55 seconds) to copy a 1GB file to the device. It was fairly easy to install the 1TB drives (got them on sale at Fry's). Setting up the RAID 1 so that I had a 2TB drive was a bit confusing at first but not too difficult. The administration of the device is done through a web browser. The user interface is very nice - easy to use, clear and feature rich. The thing that makes me enjoy it most is the fact that it's fast and I haven't had any problems with it.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Home NAS,
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This review is from: SYNOLOGY NAS DS207+ 2 BAY BARE BONE UNIT RAID 0 1 W ADS SUPPORT SATA2 USB (Personal Computers)
I have rebuilt my home network and was in need of a storage device that would not take up much space. After reading articles from [...] and looking at my budget, I decided on the Synology 207+ and it has not disappointed.
Setup was pretty straight forward and quick. I set mine up with 2 1TB Western Digital drives in a RAID 1 (mirror). Fan noise is tolerable. Case is cheap plastic, but what in this world isn't. Firmware needed to be updated out of the box which is no big deal, it comes with the technology territory. The build of the RAID took a few hours not days. My home notebook system is Macintosh OSX 10.5.5 and I also run Vista Ultimate via BootCamp/VMware. Access times and write times have been very quick. ITunes server was easy to get running. Setting up shared folders was no big deal. I have not yet run the local backup featue with a removable 1 TB USB drive as of yet. I am not anticipating any issues, but if there is an issue obviously I will change my review.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great once fan noise is taken care of,
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This review is from: SYNOLOGY NAS DS207+ 2 BAY BARE BONE UNIT RAID 0 1 W ADS SUPPORT SATA2 USB (Personal Computers)
Synology NAS Disk Station DS207+ High Performance 2-Bay Network Storage
I got this as a living room storage solution. it turned out the fan was way too loud for it to gain female acceptance (!) in this precious part of the home. I replace the fan for a quiter one and reduced its speed. it still runs cool enough with a pair of 1TB WD Caviar Green drives. Installed in a bookshelf surrounded by sound deadening padding it's now very quiet. So although such a fan mod will void warranty at least it shows it's possible to end up with a very quiet and acceptable solution in a room inhabitated by human beings. Other than this it's a very nice NAS solution that does it's thing. Remember performance is only as good as the network bandwidth between drive and computer. You optimally need a gigabit network link towards the PC to take advantage of the full performance if you need to do bulk transfers. For casual use I simply access it over WLAN and so can you.
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