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Synology Cube Station CS407 NAS
Page 3 of 7 The CS407 can act as a photo sharing server. Enabling the PhotoStation service creates a shared folder, “photo”. Basically, placing pictures in this directory allows access by way of a web page. The interface you get is very clean and nicely put together. As a matter of fact, the interface is very similar to the popular Flickr photo sharing site. The photos are presented as a standard size with the ability to run a slide show. Additional information is presented at the right side about each picture, such as the title, size, resolution, date, camera model, exposure, aperture, and ISO. Visitors can also leave comments right on the page. The photos you place in the directory start out as public, unless you change their attributes from within the Photo Station administrator console. Users added to the Photo Station will only have access to the photos and not the rest of the system. It's a small nuisance to have separate administration consoles, and I would have like to see the Photo Station controls rolled into the main administration console. c03.jpg c04.jpg c05.jpg Download Service This is probably one of the more unique features found on the CS-407; it's a BitTorrent client. To download a file by way of the CS-407 you must first enable the service, then install the Synology Download Redirector. This program puts a small, yellow box on the upper right corner of your desktop. Simply dragging a torrent file will load it into the queue for downloading. Time and bandwidth limits can be set from the admin console. You can also control how other BitTorrent users use the queue. The BitTorrent client is surprisingly easy to use and overall an excellent addition to the product.    Backup Service The Data Replicator II offers the user the ability to constantly synchronize files with the NAS on a regular basis, otherwise known as incremental backups. On the surface, the backup software worked well. In reality, I had a lot of problems because of the way the NAS works with Windows XP. The files are saved in directories that push file names past the Windows XP character limit. This problem doesn't exists for Vista users, but is still a troublesome oversight. I will say that I had no problems restoring the files I could access. The very intuitive interface takes you through the process step-by-step. You can restore your files to the same location, overwriting existing copies, or to a new, empty directory. Even with the limitations, the software worked well. The Cube Station also has the ability the work with other Cube Stations to perform network backups between them, but I only received one device and couldn't test the two together.     
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Page 2: First Looks & Setup Page 3: PhotoStation, Download Service & Backup Service Page 4: Web Station, FTP Service, iTunes Server & Active Directory Services Page 5: Testing Page 6: Quality Check Page 7: Conclusion
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