Synology™ DS-101

DS-101 Product Highlights:

• An affordable, portable, easy to use network attached storage device
• Plug and Play – zero setup with DHCP
• 120GB/160GB/250GB capacities
• Fan-less design without any noises
• Share USB printer through network
• Share external USB disks through the network
• Support a maximum of two external USB disk extensions
• One click USB flash backup
• Automatic backup for Windows clients
• User level and Share level security
• File sharing between Windows clients and Macintosh clients

The Growing Importance of Network-Attached Storage (NAS)

Business activity continues to move on-line, and companies want to consolidate and open access to their growing information store. The need to move, manage, access, copy, back up, protect, and store data is more important than ever. Network Attached Storage (NAS) is emerging as a preferred storage medium; it's data centric storage architecture effectively separates data serving from application serving. This storage network model offloads file sharing from application servers and relocates the storage onto its own independent platform. A NAS appliance is a single network storage repository capable of serving different network users, in contrast to the inefficiency of multiple storage pools attached to individual servers scattered through the network.

Due to the limited budget of small office/home office ( SOHO ) as well as home user, it is very crucial to choose a NAS (Network Attached Storage) at an affordable cost yet high performance and expandability. Other important factors for SOHO users to consider are: easy to install (Plug and play), reliable, noise free, offers heterogeneous support, easy to manage, scalable, able to serve as a printer server, direct input.

With keen innovation and state-of-the-art design technology, the Synology Disk Station is an ideal Network-Attached Storage for the following applications:

Small office and Home Office

Small business users, such as accounting firms, art design houses, dentists, lawyers, and real-estate brokers often store years of valuable client information on their Windows or MAC PC hard drives, without any backup or redundancy. This may result in the loss of all business data and cause a big disaster to the user.

The Synology DS-101 Disk Station is a file and print server to store, share and backup files for both Windows and Macintosh users. There are no complex setup requirements and it is extremely easy to use. Just plug in the power, connect the RJ45 Ethernet cable, turn on the Disk Station, and you are 3 mouse clicks away from using the Disk Station. The Disk Station serves as a file server and printer server once you finish the quick installation.

Even small business and home offices have an expensive server installed. When the server storages are full, the low cost DS-101 is an ideal and quick solution for small business and home offices for their public storage expansion.

Educational Market

Students in a small class can use DS-101 to store, share, exchange and backup files in school at a very low cost. There is no need for a huge investment by the school.

Home User

The proliferation of residential broadband connections and increasing popularity of digital multimedia such as music, video and still images have contributed to the growing need for high-capacity storage systems. To enrich your digital life at home, DS-101 can store thousands of MP3 music files which were downloaded from the Internet. Family members can store, share and backup the MP3 music files and play it on their own PC all day long through a home network, and even share digital photos and still images with friends and families. Besides having a file server function to store, backup and share files at home, the With the plug & play feature, the DS-101 can be easily installed, configured, operated by home users and serves as your network's DHCP server. DS-101 comes with a built-in USB printer port allows families to share a USB printer. There is no need to use one of your PCs as a Print Server.

ISP

With the fixed IP address, an ISP service provider can pre-load video, image, and multimedia files from an ISP service center to the user during their free time, thus reducing the network transmission load at a busy hour.

Notebook and/or Desktop client Backup

Synology Disk Station relieves your notebook and desktop backup headaches. Free Synology Data Replicator TM software (unlimited user license) provides constant backup of desktop files. Notebook files are backed up to local drives while disconnected from the network, then they are automatically saved to the Synology Disk Station when the notebook is reconnected to the network.

Portable Storage

The Synology Disk Station weighs 5 pounds and easily fits in a brief case, yet is fully equipped network storage device for data sharing and printing sharing.

The Synology Disk Station comes with a lot of advanced features making it the best solution for SOHO , Education and Home users.

Affordable. Using the Intel IXP RISC processor, our idea is to offer the SOHO and Home user a network attached storage at an affordable price.

Plug and play. Just plug in the power and Ethernet cable, and turn on the machine, you are now ready to explore the Disk Station. No installation and setup required. The Synology Disk Station is designed to hide all complexity behind the device and bring the appliance experience to you.

Reliable. The Synology Disk Station is a highly reliable product to meet the rigid challenge of today's working environment. It passed a 2000 hours stress test without fail and it passed a 400 hours thermal test at 40° C degree without fail. In addition to this, Synology Disk Station provides scheduling backup for automatic and incremental data backup to the external USB disk. And, the external USB disk can be formatted to contain a 250GB FAT file system, which is compatible for use by both Windows PCs and Macintosh PCs.

Noise-Free. With the fan-less design approach, the Synology Disk Station can provide users a quiet and noise-free office environment.

Heterogeneous Support . No matter whether users are using Windows 98/me/NT/XP /2000 or Macintosh 8.x/9.x/10.x, they can easily use Synology Disk Station to exchange files between Windows and Macintosh, or users may use them as a storage extension to their desktop PC.

Scalable. There are three USB ports available for expansion. Simply plug in the USB disk to the system and you can have the additional storage you need with no system down time. In addition to this, the external USB disk can be used as the data backup device to the system.

Easy Manage. The Intuitive web based GUI and online help makes the administration easy to work.

PrintServer function. The Synology Disk Station can also be a printer server. By connecting a USB printer to the device, users get immediate access to printer service in the network.

Direct input from Digital Camera/Recorder. Synology Disk Station is designed to accommodate the new digital era. It is easy to share your company's party video with your colleagues. Simply connect your digital video recorder to the Synology Disk Station, press the auto backup button and your recorded video will be automatically uploaded to a safe and sharable folder.

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