Synology Disk Station DS409slim Comments

I thought "YES! This is my next NAS for £300!"
Then I saw it uses stupid, expensive and lower capacity 2.5" drives instead of the very, very cheap large capacity 3.5" that I already own.

Plus, what about bit-torrent and HTTP downloading?

Ooh - just saw the screenshots, it does have HTTP downloading.

@Kebab, check out the non-slim Synology DS409 available at Scan for an extra £34.50 if you want to use 3.5" drives (it also supports 2.5" drives). 3.5" drives are much better value for money but I for one, am tempted by the benefits of having a cooler and quieter device even if the disks cost nearly twice as much per GB.

2.5" drives are smaller and cooler than 3.5" drives. They will likely hit 1TB in size in the consumer market in the next 6-8 months, so are a good oprion for a consumer NAS, where most people dont need more than 2tb anyway.

Also there will be a few outlier people who might even take these untis and stick SSDs in them. Expensive, but an interesting and silent option.

Cooler and quieter meh! Bung it in a cupboard! It's a NAS box - you dont need to have it local, just stick it under the stairs. 2.5" is only useful for SSDs these days in anything other than a notebook, not mass storage.

For an extra £35, that's QNAP TS-409 territory, or even Netgear XRAID for not much more that does support RAID expansion. 1TB Eco/Green drives are cool and quiet enough already, and a good price at ebuyer.

Looks good, but does this have the similar feature of X-Raid that the Netgear has?, the X-Raid is such a good feature of the Netgear, start small and grow as HD's get cheaper is such a bonus. I've recently got the Netgear and the fans are certainly audible, but then I'm putting it in the loft anyway so not an issue, also with the WD Green power HD's I wonder what Power consumption difference they would be compared to the 2.5's.

Try again.

Gotta call foul on the testing. You cannot claim it's cool and quiet when you only put 50% of the drives in there.

Must object to you running those as a RAID 0 too. Very, very, few people would run a NAS in RAID 0 so surely it would have been rather better to run it in RAID 1 to see what the numbers were like in that mode.

Actually I disagree that few people will run this in RAID O. First of all many people using NASs dont use all the drives. With the 2.5" drives you are looking at 2TB max in RAID O, maybe 1Tb if you just use 2 drives.

RAID is not a backup strategy, however at these capacity sizes, online backip services are quite relevant.

So RAID 1 and backup via online service would make this a nifty device. Synology would be smart to market it that way.