![]() ![]() ![]() The bundled Synology Assistant locates the appliance on the network and with a fresh set of drives in place it’ll ask for the location of the firmware on the CD-ROM and proceed to set the system up for you. It’s a little fiddly as you need to make sure you get the SATA cables the correct way round but it was job done in less then fifteen minutes. The drives are screwed into a metal carrier and linked with the supplied cables to the interface and power connectors on the motherboard. We opted for a pair of Western Digital Raptors and started by sliding the two halves of the chassis apart to access the interior. The appliance can be supplied diskless enabling you to pick your own SATA drives and Synology’s supported device list is now quite lengthy. The feature list is very similar as both appliances offer Gigabit Ethernet plus a triplet of USB 2.0 ports for external storage or printer sharing but the DS-207+ also has an eSATA port at the front. The lower-end DS-207 comes with a basic 266MHz FreeScale processor and 64MB of RAM and costs around £25 less. The family comprises two models with the DS-207+ on review equipped with a 500MHz processor partnered by 128MB of memory. It might be a compact little NAS appliance, but Synology’s new Disk Station DS-207+ certainly knows how to pack the features in, as this dual disk desktop box takes most of the features of its bigger Cube Station stable mates and delivers them at a competitive price.
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