Synology DS109 NAS Review

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Test system

• Processor: Intel C2D Е8500
• Memory: A-Data 2x2GB DDR2 800 MHz
• Motherboard: ASUS P5K-E WiFi
• Video card: MSI ATI Radeon HD 4870
• Hard drive: Maxtor 250GB; Seagate 640GB
• PSU: Seventeam 750W



What we compared




• 1. Revoltec Alu Book II
• 2. Icy Dock MB662US-2S
• 3. The Cus Mini NAS N0204
• 4. And of course – Synology DS109



Results



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As expected, performance from eSATA enclosures is better, though Synology DS109 with a 3.5” disk, does give a decent fight. Surely its not on the level of NAS devices for corporate users, but then again it was never meant to. Its only real competition in this these tests, The Cus Mini NAS N0204 was left trailing way back, but it being much smaller device - apparently its not meant to have great performance. In general the results we got from DS109 are close to the practical maximum of a 1000 MBit controllers found in most computers. So if you haven't invested in more serious network card - that's what you can expect too.

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Time to see haw the devices deal with cooling the hard drives in them. As we usually do - we're displaying the temperature DIFFERENCE between the device temperature and room temperature. As expected, DS109 dealt with the task best, mostly because it has bigger fan and more free space inside it than the Icy Dock enclosure. The other two devices are trailing back because of their passive cooling.

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And last, but not least - we measure how "green" is this product, especially when using 2.5” drive. Results are self-evident – N0204 naturally does best, being the smallest device. DS109 is following closely with a 2.5” drive. With 3.5” it does use more electricity than the single slot enclosure with passive cooling, but still, less than the two slot one with active cooling.

Note: the device we used to measure power consumption has its lower value set at 6W – i.e. measurement of 0W is not real, its merely under 6W, even though we know not how much exactly is it. :).