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Synology Disk Station DS209+

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Pros
Speedy performance
Remote sharing, tons of features
Cons
Can be somewhat difficult to configure
Drives not user-accessible

$495.58
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Pricing: Very Expensive: $700 (3/16/2009)
Performance: Superior: 100
Features: Good: 72
Design: Good: 79

Find out how these four scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Pricing

Very Expensive: $700

Cost per Gigabyte - $0.7

Performance

Superior: 100

PC World Tests (seconds)
Interface Tested	Gigabit ethernet
Primary Volume - Virus Scan	499.45
Primary Volume - Windows File Search	304.62
External Read - Files and Folders	120.14
External Read - Large File	84.59
External Write - Files and Folders	216.42
External Write - Large File	183.85

Features

Good: 72

Basics
Drive size (GB)	1000GB
Supported Interface(s)	Gigabit ethernet
Speed (RPM)	7200

Other
Installation Kit Hardware	Power adapter, ethernet cable, 2 hard disk drive power cables, 2 hard disk drive data cables
Bundled Software	Disk Station Manager 2.0 (free upgrade to DSM 2.1)

Support & Reliability
Labor Warranty (years)	Two
Parts Warranty (years)	Two
Weekday Support Hours	8
Toll-Free Support	No

Design

Good: 79

Synology Disk Station DS209+ Review

by Jon L. Jacobi and Melissa J. Perenson, PC World

- The Synology Disk Station DS209+ has lots of benefits: Compact, two-bay design; user-accessible drives; speedy performance; and RAID 0, 1, and JBOD configurations (it supports up to 3TB of storage; PC World tested the 1TB RAID version in a mirrored RAID 1 setup). The unit is sold with drives ($700 as of 3/13/09); or, you can buy just the enclosure ($490 as of 3/13/2009).

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