Conclusion
Not everyone will like having to use screws instead of mobile hard drive racks in the NAS device housing. If one hard drive fails, the NAS device has to be turned off to switch out the hard drive, which makes interruptions in providing data for the network unavoidable.
Yet, in an environment where providing data continuously is not essential—like a home network—the DS207+ is a good alternative to comparable devices from Synology’s competitors. The Disk Station DS207+ offers good data transfer rates for its class, while details like the eSATA ports, an integrated Web server, blog function, iTunes server support, and a media server are a great value in this price class. Don’t forget support from the manufacturer, too: Synology continuously works on improving the "Disk Station Manager" firmware and adding new functions to it.
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Low power consumption
- Very good Web interface
- Good data transfer rates
- No racks for hard drives
- Hard drive connectors are more difficult to set up
- Plastic housing
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I've got an old machine kicking around I kepp meaning to convert into a NAS and folding machine...
This is my first NAS unit. I didn't know what to expect and bought this based on its good reviews it had over the net.
It has really impressed me. Excellent interface !! Ultra silent and cool (32C) with 2 Western Digital Caviar SE16 750GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD7500AAKS) working as RAID-1 !!! And for the developers out there like myself, you can even get the GPL source from Synology and modify it if you wish !!!!
It has no FTP Client support at the moment (only FTP server) but I am working on porting one into the firmware. This is probably it's main missing feature and the lack of NTFS / FAT support for internal drives. EXT3 is not always easy to read in windows PC's if you do not know what you are doing.
Well this review states that it uses ntfs, can attach fat32 but not read it? You state ext3 a linux FS.. so which is true?