- Form Factor - 4-Bay Enclosure
- Maximum Storage - 4TB
- Hard Drive - SATAII
- Network Speed - 10/100/1000 Mbps
- - External HDD Interface: USB 2.0 port X2
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With terabyte competency, CS407e is the answer to storing files for entertainment, sharing files over Internet, hosting websites, sharing USB printer, and backing up desktop data. With RAID 1/5 protection, CS407e can further serve those who store important data on it.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great device for peace of mind!,
By JB Shmults (Franklin, MA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Synology CubeStation 4-Bay (Diskless) Network Attached Storage CS407Eÿ (White) (Personal Computers)
I finally bought the Synology CubeStation after doing a lot of research and deciding that I don't want any of the NAS that have tons of negative reviews posted, mostly for non-existing service and high failure rates. The 407 is expensive, but I have too many irreplaceable photos and a very large music collection to loose any of it. I run a RAID on my main workstation, but have no security on the other PCs. I ran a Maxtor 300GB shared drive for 2 years, but it occasionally hangs up, is slow and data are lost if the drive croaks.
The Synology is very easy to set up, has a great design, drives run very cool, very quiet operation and so far no problems at all. Took me 20 min to set up, all night for drive check and another 10 hours for the first 300 GB backup of all PCs in the house. Also, the Synology is not limited to 1 or 2 GB, you can fully load it with 4x 750GB. I am running it with three 500GB drives with 32mb cache in a RAID 5 configuration (redundancy built-in, you get about 2/3 of the nominal disk space, ~940GB in my case). Very nice web AJAX interface. Highly recommended! I wanted to be future-proof for as long as possible and opted to pay the extra $100 to get the black 407 instead of the 407e, which has a slower processor, but otherwise, they are identical in functionality. Cons: Inserting or exchanging drives is a little too cumbersome, with access from the back and all cables in the way. There are other solutions, which provide front access and slick drive bays (DROBO, HP Mediasmart). Also, hot-swap would be a nice touch, although I hope to never have to use it! And, of course, this is too pricey for the mainstream. Backup software is too limited, doesn't allow to save multiple schedules / backup schemes. The box looks better in a real office and is smaller than it appears in ads. This is a great solution for home or small business and for those people who are willing to pay for peace of mind and a real backup solution. Make sure to upgrade the firmware first thing, it is substantially more usable and powerful than what comes in the box!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good, solid and SLOW,
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This review is from: Synology CubeStation 4-Bay (Diskless) Network Attached Storage CS407Eÿ (White) (Personal Computers)
I've had the CubeStation (cs407e) for over 6 months now. I have a total of 4.5 TB of usable disk space in it with an additional 1.5TB used to make sure I don't lose data should a drive fail (RAID 5). Typically less than 500GB (11%) of the available disk space actually has any data on it.
I bought it for backup and it does a solid job backing up my family's 5 computers. I've had 2 computers have major failures since I got the cs407e and both times recovery was easy and complete. At one point one of the drives in the CubeStation went bad. Replacing the drive was straightforward and no data was lost due to the RAID setup. It did take hours for the new drive to be incorporated. It also has a huge number of features including media, Squeezebox and music file serving. Since I've had the cs407e a new software release came out with yet more features! Despite all those great qualities I'm considering changing to a different NAS. The problem is that the CubeStation is so darn slow. I timed moving some files and it took 5 times as long to move them to the CubeStation that to more it to another computer. First time backups take hours for even a modest sized system. Luckily the CubeStation is smart enough only to back up what changed since the previous back up so most backups are only a few minutes. Also, I tried to use the CubeStation as a print driver but it was so slow it would take five minutes to print a simple page. I quickly went back to hooking the printer directly to my wife's computer and sharing it. Even if I have to turn her computer on and wait for it to boot it's STILL faster than printing through the CubeStation.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome speedy nas with extras,
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This review is from: Synology CubeStation 4-Bay (Diskless) Network Attached Storage CS407Eÿ (White) (Personal Computers)
Synology is a little known company out of Taiwan, but makes one heck of a NAS unit. It's fast, runs a modified linux kernel, and has tons of extras like FTP, torrents, file sharing, itunes, and more. Not to mention if it doesn't do what you like out of the box, there are tons of "aftermarket" open-source type apps that you can load on to it.
Finally, Synology is very good about updating and continually improving their firmware. You won't be disappointed. Negatives: Not a true negative, just a feature differential, is that the drives are not hot-swappable. No big deal for the home user though.
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