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KitGuru has reviewed many Synology products recently and our findings have shown that they have been incredibly successful targeting both the business and home enthusiast markets with high performance solutions. As many people are immediately discouraged by typical NAS pricing however today we are going to look at one of their latest ‘stripped down' products for the mass market.
The Synology USB Station 2 has been built as the foundation of a central hub system, offering connectivity to USB hard drives and printers while also delivering media options. The fact it is silent, has a tiny physical footprint and low power drain will appeal to many users.
Instead of offering integrated hard drives, the USB Station 2 has two USB ports which can accept two external hard drives, up to 2TB in capacity each, for a total of 4TB storage. The unit ships with a Gigabit Lan port bringing high performance streaming capabilities to your network.
- Max HDD Capacity: 4TB (2X 2TB external USB hard drives)1
- Size (HxWxD): 46mm X 122mm X 111mm
- External HDD Interface: USB 2.0 port X2
- Weight: 147g
- LAN: Gigabit X1
- Wireless Support
This is a really nifty little gadget, would sit beside a monitor without even being seen.
Excellent little product. fast enough but tiny with no noise and 4w of power. bit slow for what id need, but great for printer sharing and office setups for document sharing etc.
over 20meg a second is really good,. I was expecting it to be limited to 100mbit. not over 200. nice.
i need to get this, just for the software alone. fast enough for what I need, which is to hook in a 2tb drive and stream HD videos to tv.
Well this is something that appeals to me. I dont need a nas, but ive 4 or 5 HDs laying in a drawer. this is a low cost way to use them.
I am REALLY impressed with this little device. that V3 software suite looks great. really think this will sell well. most people dont want to fork out 350 quid for a NAS. good way to use those old drives
Love these guys, I bought the 710+ after reading the review here. This is ideal for a small office and printer sharing and a pool system of storage.
We use the 1010+’s in work. 5 of them. This would be a good addition for printing sharing in the offices.
Shame that you have to wipe out whatever is on your disk in the first place. So factor in the cost a disk to add to this. Why cant it have three USB ports? 2 for disks and one for printer. And where is the advertised wireless capability. Simple data grams dont indicate whether it really would be capable of playing back hi bitrate mkv files as some have very high spikes up to 60-80Mbps. A lower price, NTFS support also, with pre-existing files kept intact. fat32 only allows 4gb max file size.