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August 2008
(86%)
15 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Abstract: June 16, 2008 First and foremost destined for small and medium sized businesses, the Disk Station DS508 is a high end model from Synology, one of the current best manufacturers on the home and SoHo NAS market. It succeeds the impressive CS407, which y...
Based on the specifications we expected good things from the Synology Disk Station DS508, and that is exactly what we got. As anticipated, the DS508 is a good quality product and we highly recommend it to anyone looking at a five drive NAS solution for...
2 Gigabit Ethernet ports with jumbo frame support, RAID 1,5 and RAID expansion, Hot Swappable drives, Builtin servers for Web, FTP, iTunes, Printer, UPnP AV, Photo sharing, Backup, and Bit Torrent download, Direct recording from IPbased cameras, High ...
Relatively expensive, Status indicators didn’t show drive rebuild, No home page alert or status page status showing RAID in degraded mode, Very limited documentation for using builtin web server/MySQL
Five drive BYOD SATA RAID 5 NAS with multiple server functions
Abstract: Synology delivers the fastest desktop NAS appliance currently on the market and with a host of storage features to boot. The business case for the Disk Station DS508 lies with its easy management, strong access controls, backup facilities and storming ...
On paper, the Synology Disk Station DS508 has a great feature set, and the web-based interface is certainly more usable than many weve seen in the past. With five-disk support allowing up to 5TiB of storage, spread across multiple RAID volumes if yo...
Abstract: Synologys Disk Station DS508 is the first NAS weve seen to come with five SATA drive bays, so it has plenty of space for adding more disks. Disks have to be screwed into removable trays but its not difficult. Configuring the DS508 is straightfor...