Synology DS410 DiskStation 4-bay All-in-1 NAS Server for Home to Business Workgroup Users

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Simple hardware set up, even following you get the case apart. Cable- much less technique is good. Solid net interface with just about every single tweek and monitor you could want. Four bays permit for about five.4TB of storage in a RAID5 configuration. Case style is a tiny lacking. You have to take the whole issue apart to place in a drive. A lot of little screws applied as nicely. The net interface would be incredibly confusing to a new user, but that probably not who must be obtaining this method. The LED's in the front will drive you crazy, place it someplace that you won't see the front of it. No manuals integrated even to show you how to open the case, almost everything is on PDFs on a CD. Relatively priced for a four bay NAS. Complete function set, maybe also a lot. Pretty basic case design.I would advocate this to anybody that has ever build a laptop just before that desires a excellent about of stand-alone space.

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Simple to set up. Runs cool sitting on my desk. DSM three. management software performs wonderful. Rapidly transfers (see other thoughts). Boots up quickly. Competitive value point. None so far. Had this infant for about two months now with 4 2TB wd20EARS in raid5. Sitting behind a Dlink green five-port gigabit switch with my workstation, intel GB nic in my workstation (onboard realtek is junk), jumbo frames enabled with 9k MTU, cat6 cable, obtaining solid 55MB-58MB/sec regularly with massive files transferred from workstation (which I if I'm not mistaken is fully saturating cat6 550mhz rating, for my particular cables), drops off to about 40MB/sec with transfers of numerous tiny files. External drives get picked up nicely in the DSM internet management interface, finding about 20MB/sec transfers from USB & eSATA to the NAS array. Solid efficiency at this cost point.

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-Uncomplicated net primarily based UI-Compatible with most OS-Uncomplicated to install (follow quick set up guide and wiki guide accessible online)-Quick setup with incorporated software-Backup software program for Windows users and compatible with Time Machine for Mac customers -Pricey-Not all HDD are compatible (be conscious of HDD compatibility list)-Fans are not optimally placed for uniform heat transfer-Would have liked to have two ethernet ports for quicker throughput I thought the Synology DS-410 is a great product. It would be awesome if it was a 贄 cheaper. However, it undoubtedly lives up to its solution description. I am a mac user and I wanted a backup option for my laptop. I have various external HDD attached to my iMac and with 4x 2TB HDD in my DS-410 on a Hybrid RAID, I have about five.5TB obtainable for backup. The product operates excellent with the time machine and it automatically mounts and dismounts each and every hour as time machine uses the NAS for its backups. It took about 36 hours to format the HDD and setup the RAID though!The browser based UI is simply fabulous. It is very straightforward and simple to comply with. I would very propose visiting Synology's Support Wiki and read about all compatible HDD, due to the fact not all are RAID compatible. It also provides a step by step installation guide and it will definitely make your life easy. The initial HDD install took some time because one has to unscrew and open the NAS to set up the HDD but it only took about

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This NAS does every little thing I ask it to and it does it with grace and ease.Flawless OperationEasy to use interfaceDoes almost everything it says it will and much moreSolid - it has not dropped once in four monthsUncomplicated to Monitor drives healthEffortless to 'backup' to a SATA and/or USB external driveStraightforward to setup USB PrinterMy DS409 shipped with Disk Manager 2.two. I strongly suggest you upgrade the firmware to two.three as part of your setup approach. iTunes server is not what it seems - don't use it (see under) I have gone via a quantity of less expensive NAS systems, practically nothing compares to this device. If you want to use for your MP3s with iTunes - map a drive to a folder, and discover that drive. This will let you continue to use your present playlists.

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Lots of attributes that other NAS goods either do not have at all or don't do practically as properly.The overall performance also seems considerably superior than other NAS items I've utilized. And this unique unit has gotten hammered considerably far more than the other folks. The "Surveillance Station" application *requires* Online Explorer due to it's reliance on ActiveX - on a machine that runs BusyBox. Who nevertheless utilizes IE?!? I imply seriously. You have a safety oriented application that depends on IE? To be fair, it seems as though the majority of the CCTV/IP Cam industry for what ever reason has decided to take the straightforward way out and use ActiveX in their products. That merely blows my mind. It's like Schlage selling a new deadbolt exactly where the bolt is a hairpin. Even following upgrading the DSM to the new and shiny version three., IE is nonetheless mandatory to get the complete interface. Following discovering the heinous Online Explorer requirement, I investigated other alternatives with the intent of just using the Synology to hold the video. This is when I discovered that practically almost everything else has the very same hole in the head requirement. I attempted ZoneMinder for about a week, but it would just lock up numerous occasions a day and appears to be stagnating with no new release due to the fact March 2009.If Synology ever updates their Surveillance Station out of the 1990's and joins the rest of civilization, this would very easily be a five+ egg item. If you have no want for the IP cam aspect of this NAS product then indeed, this is a complete five egg unit.

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Wonderful characteristics (FTP, DDNS, DLNA, Media Server, etc), simple setup, it just operates! NAS takes a fantastic 20-30s to come back up immediately after it's gone to sleep; this causes issues with windows messing up credentials for mapped drives, printers not becoming recognized, and so forth. Also, some metadata for files is either not recognized or stripped off (like the size of a jpg for instance); this causes problems for graphic designers. Make positive you go to Synology website and get compatible HDs.

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Fast, Decent UI but somewhat complex due to the quantity of choices. Decent Tech help.Security is straightforward to administer - as extended as you know what you're doing.you can SSH in and muck with the Unix OS if you wish Iphone video app doesn't function with all safety choices set and the program doesn't warn you of this. So if you are insecure you can upload a video (it will trans-code it on your nearby Pc) and play it, but if you have safety on then the synology iphone app (the 1 they designed) can't play video.No capability to import block lists (such as peerblock, and so on.)You can\'t drag products from the neighborhood Pc to a folder in the browser UI and have them upload.Expect to tinker a bit. When administration by way of iphone is restricted, There is a decent iphone app ( not absolutely free) that lets you download bitorrent files directly to the server. The bitorrent client that is constructed in a simplistic, but includes a torrent search engine so you can connect by way of SSH or HTTPS and add a torrent from pretty significantly anywhere.The system firewall is a bit off 1 remote app refused to work if anything was blocked by the systems firewall (like bonjour, which the technique didn't use and was blocked at the router)Some odd legacy code. If you go into the file browser one particular way or if you are forced to use ie6 you are limited to uploading 10 files at a time. ( ie6 - my operate demands to discover the word "secure"). If you go in yet another way you can upload directories or whatever you want. They have two file method browsers one particular one is clearly inferior, but that is the default

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Simple to set up. Static discharge to the case can fatally crash the array, requiring you to take away and recreate the array, losing all data.In my case, the drives had been spun down (hibernate mode), and when I touched the prime of the case, there was a (non-visible) static discharge. At that point, the drives spun up and the DS410 began beeping. I checked the Storage Manager and volume 1 was showing as "Crashed", with only disk 1 listed as aspect of the volume; disks 2 and 3 were listed as status "Not Initialized" and had been not portion of the volume anymore (even although they were spun up, successfully completed the Wise speedy test, and showed no Intelligent errors or bad sectors).I rebooted the DS410, and volume 1 was nonetheless showing as "Crashed", with disks 2 and three still not aspect of the volume. I was in a position to generate a separate volume with disks 2 and 3, so there was definitely no problem with the drives themselves.For whatever cause, the DS410 removed disks two and three from the volume, thereby crashing the v Fortunately for me, I had just completed 72 hours of testing to make sure the disks had no negative sectors, and I had not but moved my data onto the DS410.The DS410 is certainly not ready for production use (or any use, if you ask me). Static discharge is a frequent occasion in just about any atmosphere. One of the purposes of a metal case is to shield the internal components from static discharge to stop malfunction such as this.When a single static discharge (generated by walking a distance of 4 feet) to the best of the case can cause the array to crash (especially to the point where the product removes two of the 3 disks from the array's configuration, thereby fatally crashing the array), the product can only be noticed as unreliable and can\'t be trusted.If you plan on obtaining/using the DS410, make confident you put it somewhere (or in some enclosure) which can guarantee that it will under no circumstances see static discharge.

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- Support several OS- Speed- Can do a lot with great interface- Feature set- Good help/forum - Value- Characteristics/setup can be overwhelming for an common user (not truly a con)- HDD initial choice - not incredibly user friendly - had to read trough the forum to figure out which HDD are very best - once more if you acquire this unit you will have to commit time to configure/understand it, but when you do it's remarkable! The unit is strong and effectively worth the cash. Just be certain you need to have all the characteristics - if you want easy HDD extension you are superior off finding some thing less costly and less complicated. If you purchase this unit - make sure you have the time to read up on the FAQ/Forums. If you expose it to the net - one of it's fantastic characteristics - make sure you understand your router/network safety or have the time to read on it. If you are on the fence and have viewed as all the above - just get it and have enjoyable!

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Software interface is smooth and performs well. Runs good in Chrome. I expected some hiccups, but so far everything has gone smooth. The iPhone audio app operates effectively. I was even surprised when I was setting up my firewall guidelines I undid some alterations that induced my default to be block all. I hit apply and realized it and believed I would be locked out of the box. Rather it popped up a dialog stating that I would be locking the management interface and then it let me go back and make modifications. You can inform the software program is effectively tested which is rare for NAS boxes of this price range. Generally somebody throws a bunch of open supply capabilities in a box and sells it but Synology has really place a lot of time and work into the interfaces. Superb product. The only bad issue I can say against it is that I wish it had a supply code repository built-in. I replaced my server 񢉘r2) with this wanting to get away from the overhead costs of operating a windows server, but I haven't located a excellent remedy for replacement of my code repository. They have some hacks for it but I would rather have reliability over characteristics so hopefully someday Synology will put some work into implementing one particular. I also wish the DLNA server did some trans-coding for streaming video but I recognize this would be processor intensive.

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I have been contemplating a device like this for a lengthy time - a big tank where I can preserve all my music, movies, and photographs and have them accessible on any device anyplace.When I read about this I assumed it fit the bill. I can confirm after obtaining it for about a month so far so superior. As the preceding reviewer says with 4x2 terabytes you get about 5.5 terabytes of formatted space in RAID5. No big snags so far and some positives compared to expectations. Documentation is sparse and it does call for some end user practical experience. Some of the apps could use a little polish, but all function basically as advertised. No gapless playback on the Audio Station is a huge downer. I'd say if you have built a pc but don't have networking encounter you can deal with this.

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Wonderful NAS for house use!! Really effortless to setup; a few screws but at least I know the drives are secure! Extremely straight forward interface and a fantastic number of characteristics and alternatives. Rapidly, potent and reliable - what more could you ask for in a NAS in this price range?? Overall interface for customers although the stations (Photo, Video, Music) could be a bit additional up to date or eye friendly when you are generating it accessable to outside household. With 2x2TB WD AV-GP HDD to start out it took just about 7 hrs to configure and format in RAID 1 - with Parity check (definately encouraged if you give any significance to information integrity). I would also highly advocate spending the handful of additional $$ to get the DS410 rather than the DS410j - The further RAM and processor is a should for streaming HD Video.

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Purchased this in October and have had practically zero problems with it. I initially bought two 2TB Samsung drives and just added 2 far more Samsung drives for a total of five.3TB in RAID5.-Not too loud when running it. I have it attached to pegboard below my desk. Usually is in power saving mode when not making use of it, which means it is definitely quiet. When it detects activity there is a profound series of noises for a second or two, but it settles back down into a low hum.-Excellent amount of software- runs Linux and has custom Synology computer software written for it. All net based. Good graphical top quality.-Includes Apple and Android mobile apps for audio and photo streaming.-Rapid transfers.-No difficulties streaming.-Small footprint.-Eye-catching style to it (even although I have it tucked out of sight). -Fairly costly when compared to other NAS's. But I purchased this one based on perceived reliability and quality. I didn't want to pay half the cost for an additional NAS that has a fair opportunity of dying in a year.-Couldn't get audio streaming over the world wide web to work. Can stream over wifi, but couldn't figure out what was the difficulty when attempting to stream outdoors. It involves port forwarding on your router. Don't know if ISP locks it down.-Some included software program is thin on characteristics, but that is not what I bought the NAS for, so something additional is just a bonus. App for downloading torrents, nzbs, and so forth not that good. -Virtually exclusively use this NAS for storage of audio and video files.-Have this connected to my boxee box. Also utilized on two Computer's, from time to time simultaneous with the boxee use. Zero problems streaming even 1080p.-Initially setup as RAID 1 with 2 difficult drives and recently upgraded to RAID 5 with four challenging drives. It took a day to finish, but I did not lose any data and wonderful nonetheless had access to the information for streaming.-Primarily get media from my Computer and transfer to the NAS. Writing averages ㅛMB/s, maximum ㅯMb/s. Had to change some Windows configurations to get this speed (Win 7).

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Solid construction, very good documentation, easy to setup, performs properly, functions in a mixed-operating program atmosphere (OSX, linux, WinXP, linux-based appliances). Good touches like the clamp to assistance the energy cable to keep away from gravity pulling it loose. Supplies fourƦTB RAID5 for five.four TB formatted. Constant 200+ mbps on my all gigabit network (some customers report far better, some worse, this is what I see) -- one thing that many "gigabit" appliances can't manage. no hot swap (but doesn't claim to either) reserves tiny partition at starting of every single drive for its own use as RAID1 for its operating method. Upshot is you can't just use an current information drive with out reformatting, but the benefit is that it's management interface will continue to perform unless *all* drives fail.

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-Easy setup-MySQL, PHP, Apache, SSH Access (runs BusyBox)-GB network-Good interfaceGreat transfer speeds. Downloading to my Win7 Pc, I averaged 95MB/s down and 56 MB/s up. Not as quick from my XP box, but I nonetheless cant complain. I am employing it with 4x1.5GB seagate 7200 PRM drives None so far This NAS now functions as an intranet for my property. The photo album functionality is nice and it is effective and fast adequate to run a variety of PHP based ajax applications

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Regarded as this, DS710+ and DS210+. Chose this as I liked 4 bay expandability and it has two fans! My NAS is in a poorly ventilated room that is on a regular basis 80+ degrees F and my outgoing NAS (Iomega ix2) ran Truly hot. This guy runs all day and neither of my two 2 TB samsungs excceds 41-42 degrees C. Transfer rates and such are more than my head, but it does run quick. It will read a 93MB file in 11 sec and write the exact same file in 8.5 sec when my iomega was 20 sec and 35 sec respectively. It also wrote a 360 MB folder in 11.3 sec. Despite the fact that the manual (which is only available on line) looks great and is likely great for advanced utilizes, you are on your own for initial setup and install; I mean it! What you read in this evaluations is correct, documention is Poor! But don't let that deter you if you are additional than a three of ten in personal computer network simple understanding. My expertise is restricted to getting setup my personal network from several shop purchased components. Take the danger, you'll be thrilled; but go slow on setup! I know I am! This factor rocks!!

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Decent hardware, specifically for an SMB NAS. DS 3. software is function-packed. Telnet and SSH access are provided, which offers you root access on the machine. You have to open the entire case to swap tough drives. Trying to manage a huge number of users would be cumbersome, as permissions management isn't as unified as it must be. Units nonetheless come with DS 2.3, so just chuck that CD out and download the new version from their website. With SSH access, you can set up a Debian chroot and run whatever computer software you want on it.

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Straightforward to set up for a person with intermediate computer expertise, very effective computer software for everything from monitoring the unit's efficiency to file sharing. Fast. For NAS, this issue is fast. 45K/sec write speed in RAID5 mode with two TB Seagate LP drives. Stays cool and quiet. No issue performing at 100% with 2 media streamers playing 1080p video simultaneously AND writing to the RAID at the same time. Need to take it apart to install drives but that's minor given how typically you're probably to have to adjust drives. In any case, 4 thumbscrews and it's apart. Nicely worth the cost given the superior efficiency. My D-Link DNS-323 writes at about eight MB/Sec, the Netgear NV+ at about 10 MB/sec. You won't regret this purchase.

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Wonderful application capabilities. File station functions fantastic inside the network as nicely as from the net. All the apps have their own way of operating. They are not constant in they way they perform from one particular app to a different. Cost not much to be said right here. For the property market it's kinda high for a SMB it's a price of performing company.DLNA does not trans-code on the fly. Camera surveillance app permits only one particular cost-free license. Additional cameras call for extra licenses. I have been waiting ྫྷ) for a function packed device that presents this a lot of apps with out running a couple of servers. I believe I have found the appropriate 1 for me.

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Your items are Very good.USE 120mm FANS WITH Much less NOISE AND THEY WOULD BE Fantastic! Fans are unnecessarily noisy. Preserve enhancing your merchandise