Have you ever decided that it made a lot of sense to start backing up your entire system and to do it you have set side a large partition of your jumbo hard drive to place the duplicate files of your system. Then the day that your main operating systems heads south you are no longer able to access the second partition on your hard drive without the use of the original partition that is no longer available.
Or perhaps you are like me and have multiple computers in your home and would like to share certain files with the other computers, but you refuse to turn on file and print sharing fearing the hack attack boogie man may pay you a visit. The same could be said for multiple platforms as well, I run a hackintosh in one room and two PCs in another and would like the ability to share between them. So why not use something like the Synology Disk Station DS209 that we are reviewing today? It has all of the great features of a Network Attach Storage Device plus it has its own built-in Apache/PHP/MySQL environment so that you can host as many as 40 web sites or run either an audio or photo station from a single location for all to share and ton of other features we will touch upon.
About Synology
Founded in 2000, Synology is a young and energetic company dedicated to developing high-performance, reliable, versatile, and environmentally-friendly Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. Our goal is to deliver user-friendly solutions and solid customer service to satisfy the needs of businesses, home offices, individual users and families.
