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The USB Station 2 ships in an attractive, subtle box with basic information detailing the multitude of uses.
Inside there is a software CD with literature, a Cat 6 cable and a power adapter. The power adapter we have is a European model but if you are in the UK then the correct adapter will be included. As a UK review site we can sometimes get early release products from various parts of the world.
The USB Station 2 is a tiny little product which has an appealing, inoffensive design. Obviously as there are no drives installed, the physical footprint can be much less than normal. They also claim a 5W power drain, but we will look at that later to confirm.
The product is very light, but it also manages to feel quite substantial, rather than flimsy.
There is no RAID support as it is a stripped down product for a low cost marketplace. Inside is an 800W processor with 128MB of DDR400mhz memory – this combination proved to be quite fast in our testing, with the CPU never loading over 60 percent even when multitasking. Very impressive, considering. On the side as we can see from the picture above, you can disconnect USB drives by pressing the button. This works in the same principle as Microsoft Windows ‘safe device removal'.
The rear has a power connector, reset button (which we never needed), a gigabit RJ45 port as the two USB 2.0 ports.
As the USB Station 2 offers connectivity via the dual USB 2.0 ports, you can hook up any drive you wish, even a portable 2.5 inch SSD with enclosure, as seen above. The port delivered enough power for the SSD to operate.
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.