Recently Synology earned an “Outstanding Product” award for their Disk Station DS-409+NAS. Building on the successful design features of the earlier model, Synology introduced a new sleek version using 2.5 inch laptop hard drives.
Called the DS409SLIM, the ultra slim version is similar to the Disk Station DS-409 but takes up less than half of the desk space. Measuring in at 4.7 inches by 5.6 inches, the sleeker brother still offers four drive bays for up to 2 TB of storage capacity in its ultra tiny frame.
The new model includes a 1.2 GHz Marvell processor and 128 MB of DDR2 RAM. Using Disk Station Manager 2.1 software, the DS409SLIM supports several backup options, cross platform data sharing and scheduled power settings. The unit can also be setup as a dedicated 24/7 BitTorrent, FTP or HTTP download center.
Despite its small size, there is still a one GB Ethernet port, two USB 2.0 ports and one eSATA port. The DS409SLIM also includes a snap in disk tray that can be set up for a variety of configurations including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6 and JBOD. Furthermore, the DS409SLIM includes DLNA certification as well as support for UPnP so users can stream multimedia files to set top boxes and consoles that are compliant with the gear.
The DS409SLIM retails for around $400 not including the hard drives.
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