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(More customer reviews)I love this NAS device. I did a lot of research before buying and I decided on this one. After owning it a while now I can honestly say it is the best NAS device I have seen or ever worked with. There's more features than you can shake a stick at, and with the easy to use sleak (web-based) user interface, it's a snap to configure.
First you install your hard drives by removing the four thumb screws on the back, folding down the hinged back panel, and flipping off the top cover. Attach your drives to the slide-in trays using supplied screws. There are 4 slots, allowing up to 4 drives. After you slide the drives in, you can secure each tray to the chassis using one screw on each side.
Reattach the top cover and secure the back panel. Plug in the network cable and power cable. Put the software cd in your laptop and then run through a quick install program. It will search for devices on your network and list all sonology NAS devices it finds. Then you can configure a few options, such as network settings. I chose to provide a static IP address for mine, set it, and finished. Then I opened a web browser and used the static ip to connect to the DS 410. From that point on, I did everything from the web-based interface.
The most time-consuming portion of the setup/configuration is setting up your volume and formatting your drives. I decided to configure a RAID 5 volume. I used four 2TB Seagate drives in mine, for a total of 8TB. The setup program took about 14 hours to configure my volume--once it begins, you can walk away and forget it until it's finished. Then you can configure all the other cool features--shared folders, users, music server, ftp, ..., the list goes on and on. When it's all said and done, I had 4.59 TB of usable space. So keep this in mind--if you are expecting to get 6TB of storage (which you might expect for using 4 2TB drives), you will actually end up with less than that. Each of my drives had 1.89TB of usable space.
Oh and one last thing--I used the Seagate 7200 rpm drives with the 64MB cache. These drives are pricy but the performance is absolutely amazing. I never imagined I could get this kind of performance out of any NAS type device! I do have a friend that went with the low power Seagate 5900 rpm drives in his and the performance was terrible. He also had to return 1 of his drives during the process. After a couple of weeks he sent the drives back and purchased the same drives I'm using. Neither of us have any complaints. In my opinion, you can't go wrong with the top-of-the-line Seagate drives. You can check Sonology's website for a list of compatible (and also non-recommended) hard drives.
If you are an advanced user and want to completely customize your NAS the easy way, I don't think you will be disappointed with this device's features, flexibility, and performance.
Two thumbs up!
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Synology DiskStation DS410, with 4x1TB drives, offers an affordable, high-performance and full-featured networkattached storage solution that is specifically designed for home to business workgroup users who need to share and protect data cost-effectively, while increasing productivity with comprehensive business-oriented applications.
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