Comments on: Synology DS209+II 2-bay SATA NAS Server

By: Review of Synology DiskStation DS211j

Review of Synology DiskStation DS211j — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:27:22 +0000

[...] testing I used a Synology DiskStation DS209+II 1.5 TB, Seagate FreeAgent Go Flex Home 1 TB, Lacie 2Big 1 TB and the DiskStation DS211j with 2 TB. [...]

By: Kinetic One

Kinetic One — Mon, 03 May 2010 08:47:53 +0000

@SlavaS
I’d definitely not recommend you that. I work on a mac platform with tons of raw images and thousands of heavy uncompressed music files. All of them between 25 and 50 MB. Since 6 months I’ve been testing and struggling withthe device and it caused me nothing but trouble, moved, deleted files/folders, slow response probably due to its caching and so on. It might have something to do with the fact that the DS has trouble with the protocol mac uses. It’s as Pte says, as soon as it’s a mounted drive, it becomes very slow. An example: just opening and listing a folder with 4200 subfolders in a window takes up to 4’30″ !!!

By: Review of Seagate FreeAgent DockStar

Review of Seagate FreeAgent DockStar — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:43:10 +0000

[...] FreeAgent DockStar may disappoint as it certainly is slower than a dedicated NAS box such as the Synology DS209II+. When transferring a 1.5 GB file over my home network, the Dockstar was running around 4 MB/s while [...]

By: Network Attached Storage Comparison – 8 Tested and Compared

Network Attached Storage Comparison – 8 Tested and Compared — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:05:58 +0000

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By: SlavaS

SlavaS — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:24:14 +0000

I came accross this review when serching “NAS vs. files server”. It’s very well written, detailed and comprehensive.

Would you recomend this unit over a file server say built on a Linux PC with Samba?

Our studio works with tens of thousands of RAW images (8-12 MB) and large PSP files (10-60MB) stored on a server, currently Win2003 S. We are in process of replacing it and looking for alternatives.

Thanks again for the superb review.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:19:28 +0000

The only issue I have with this device is when it is mapped as a drive and you try to delete from it. It is very slow.

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Tuesday’s Reviews 29 Jun 09 | PC Help Forum — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:00:52 +0000

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Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:52:41 +0000

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» Hardware Round-UP (28/06/09) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:03:04 +0000

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