Synology NAS Cube Station CS407e Economic 4-Bay Network Storage

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 4.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000OZ70K4
• Item model number: CS407Eÿ
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 2, 2004

Product Description

Product Description

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great device for peace of mind!, May 4, 2008

By	JB Shmults (Franklin, MA USA) - See all my reviews

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!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome speedy nas with extras, February 18, 2009

By	Craig Huber "Technoenthusiast" (Where things are weird...) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW, August 24, 2009

By	M. Baker - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've now been using this device for several months. I've got 4 x 1TB drives in RAID 5, and wow is it slow. Don't have a gigabit network? Don't worry. This thing won't write faster than 10MB/S. Reads topped out at 15 MB/s. When I reported this as an issue to tech support they assured me (and showed me benchmarks) that 10-20MB/s was expected performance. Run away.