The Synology DS110+ is a One Bay NAS Box aimed at the small to medium business market. It comes supplied with no hard drive (you fit your own capacity), has an eSATA and 3 x USB ports to add additional storage to the device plus it is fitted with a gigabit Ethernet port for high speed data transfer.
Posts tagged eSATA
Synology DS110+ Review
Multi Boot with the IcyBox
If you recall, I bought myself the Icy Box External SATA holder and for most part I used this as a means to add extra drives as required (mostly 2.5″ models) for storing data. As this device operates with eSATA (as well as USB) – this means it can be as fast as a normal internal harddrive. I pondered on the thought of having various operating systems per drive and by selecting this on bootup – I can indeed boot into another OS without ditrubing my present system
Icy Box Docking Station SATA HDD
One of my recent purchases was this Icy Box Docking Station for 2.3” + 3.5” HDD which features a SATA + USB Interface. I bought this one from Aria UK for £18. I already own a 3.5” SATA Drive bay which features USB & eSATA but did not have the eSATA Lead and there is no way I was going to spend loads on postage just for a cheap lead. Having a handful of loose 2.5” SATA Drives hanging about as well as some 3.5” Models plus the Dell I own having eSATA built in as standard – I was good to go.
eSATA – The 3rd interface
External Hard Drives normally comes with USB, sometimes Fire wire but on the rare occasion something called eSATA. Basically it goes like this in terms of speed:
USB 1.1 –> USB2 -> Firewire 400 –> Firewire 800 and finally eSATA which is the same speed as connecting the drive internally. I have not seen many FireWire 800 cases around and even FW400 commands a premium. Of course for the Mac User you have little choice, Apple have not got any eSATA connectors on any of there machines.
