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Synology have been riding high in 2010, releasing some of the finest NAS systems ever to hit the consumer market. We use several of these devices in the KitGuru offices for our network file sharing and have found them to be both extremely reliable a...
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The two-bay Synology DiskStation DS211+ is as feature-packed as two-bay NAS enclosures come. Not only is the box fast, but its easy-to-use DiskStation Manager 3.1 software provides tons of Secure FTP and HTTP, a variety of media-serving features, rsync...
The Synology DiskStation DS211+ is a fast NAS box with a vast array of features, but it's pricey, retailing for around £300 for 500GB, up to around £550 for 6TB. Cheaper, slower versions such as the plain 211 or 211j will be a better deal for the avera...
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Zdnet.com.au Updated: 2011-11-14 03:18:21
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Tweet this story Synology has been making decent quality NAS for a while now, and this week we have its DS211+ nestled firmly against our collective bosom. It's a two-drive affair, with two USB ports, one eSATA port and a gigabit Ethernet jack at...
Includes SD card reader, Great user interface, Highly featured...
Front door isn't hinged in any way...
Synology's DS211+ is perfectly suited as a home NAS. Its performance is acceptable, and its features many. If you're looking for a backup solution for your home, this is definitely one to add to the list.
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Synology’s NAS boxes have rarely disappointed us and, with a beefier hardware specification than any previous model we’ve seen, the DiskStation DS211+ looks set to trounce its predecessors. It uses a 1.6GHz Marvell 88F6282 Feroceon ARM CPU and ha...
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The dual-bay Synology DS-211+ is marketed as a business-class NAS suitable for medium and small businesses looking to centralize storage and backups. It provides several functions, from network multimedia via UPnP and DAAP, to Windows Active Direct...
Stellar NFS performance, Great control panel, Expandable via eSATA, Price – performance ratio great, SD card slot for quick backups...
Front panel is easy access to drives, and is not securable...
Kudos to Synology for a product which — with environment variability — nearly matches the marketing claims. In the NFS test, I saw just short of the 108 MB/s read and 55 MB/s write the company claims using hard drives that are a few months old. Additio...
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Synology is one of the rapidly rising players in the SMB (Small to Medium Businesses) / SOHO (Small Office & Home Office) NAS market. This market is a highly competitive one with many players like QNAP, Thecus, Netgear, Drobo, LaCie, Seagate and West...
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Tweet Tweet Image courtesy of Synology You can’t be too cautious these days about backing up your data. Time and time again friends, family and co-workers come to me about trying to recover pictures, music and documents on a failed or virus ridden dr...
Tons of built-in features Simple setup, administration and use Solid hardware, well-built, small footprint Energy efficient and quite operation Simple no-touch backup solution Very impressive read/write speeds with all services (even configured as a m...
Higher cost than other desktop devices due to replaceable configuration and hardware (you get what you pay for) Automatic Router configuration list is short, most of the port forwarding required manual setup Special thanks to Synology for allowing me...
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The two-bay Synology DiskStation DS211+ is as feature-packed as two bay NAS enclosures come.Not only is the box fast, but its easy-to-use DiskStation Manager 3.1 software provides tons of Secure FTP and HTTP, a variety of media serving features, rsyn...
The DS211+ is a fast NAS box with a vast array of features, but it's pricey, retailing for around £300. Cheaper, slower versions such as the plain 211 or 211j will be a better deal for the average user on an average network who doesn't need top perfor...
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The two-bay Synology DiskStation DS211+ is as feature-packed as two-bay NAS enclosures come. Not only is the box fast, but its easy-to-use DiskStation Manager 3.1 software provides tons of Secure FTP and HTTP, a variety of media-serving features, rsync...
Great software features, Supports 3TB drives, No second ethernet jack...
Poorly designed drive trays...
A fast but pricey 2-bay NAS box loaded with feature-packed software...
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