It’s all too easy to find that your storage has got out of control with adding additional capacity never being cheaper. It’s at this point that you might consider looking at a NAS (Network Attached Storage) solution to allow your data to become more accessible and organised. Synology was founded in 2000 and are dedicated to developing high-performance, reliable, versatile, and environmentally-friendly Network Attached Storage (NAS) products.
Today we take a look at the Synology USB Station 2 which is the baby of the Synology NAS range. This small device might not feature RAID or data redundancy as it offers no internal capacity for hard drive storage but instead as the name suggests allows external USB hard drives to be used. It does however feature Gigabit connectivity and support for upto 2x 3TB hard drives, It also opens up many options that you can use your attached USB devices for including the ability to use it as media server for your music or a print server to allow your printer to be shared across all your networked PCs.
Specifications
Hardware
CPU Frequency : 800MHz
Hardware Encrypted Engine
Memory : DDR2 128MB
External HDD Interface : USB 2.0 Port X 2
Max External Capacity : 2X 3TB external USB hard drives
Size (HxWxD) : 46 X 122 X 111 mm
Weight : 147g
LAN : Gigabit X1
System Fan : 70x70x25mm x1
Wireless Support
Noise Level : 21.0 dB(A)
Power Recovery
AC Input Power Voltage : 100V to 240V AC
Power Frequency : 50 / 60Hz, Single Phase
Power Consumption : 5W
Operating Temperature : 5°C to 35°C (40°F to 95°F)
Storage Temperature : -10°C to 70°C (15°F to 155°F)
Relative Humidity : 5% to 95% RH
Maximum Operating Altitude : 10,000 feet
Certification : FCC Class B, CE Class B, BSMI Class B
Warranty : 2 Years
Applications
File Browser
File Station
FTP Server
Bandwidth Control, Custom FTP Passive Port Range, Anonymous FTP, Transfer Log
Supported Video Format : 3G2, 3GP, ASF, AVI, DAT, DivX, FLV, M4V, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPG, QT, WMV, XviD, RM, RMVB, VOB, RV30, RV40, AC3, AMR, WMA3
User can click and download the following video formats: RM, RMVB, VOB, RV30, RV40, AC3, AMR, WMA3, but not able to play it in Photo Station as compressed Flash video
