Synology Disk Station DS114 is a feature-rich 1-bay NAS specifically designed to facilitate easy management & storage of digital contents. Running on Synology Disk Station Manager (DSM), DS114 enjoys the full versatility of applications Synology has to offer. Synology DS114 is a compact, all-purpose NAS, designed to fulfill a variety of requirements for small business & home users in single hard drive storage. For a one-bay value model DS114 delivers remarkable read/write performance
- an average 74.25 MB/sec writing speed in a Windows environment, & over 108.99 MB/sec reading.1 The built-in floating-point unit enhances the overall capability of the main CPU, & is particularly advantageous in speeding up thumbnail processing, making photo viewing a refreshingly new experience. With RAM twice the size of its predecessor, DS114 exhibits a surprising boost in multi-tasking performance. DS114 also comes with two Super Speed USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 interfaces with up to 5 Gbps transmission speed, & an e SATA interface to power an external hard drive. DS114 is extremely versatile in spite of its size. Running on Synology’s award-winning DSM operating system, DS114 shares the rich reservoir of applications available in DSM Package Center. Synology DS114 offers a centralized backup target to consolidate fragmented & unstructured data across a network. PC users can back up their data to Synology DS114 using Synology Data Replicator software, & Mac OS X users enjoy native Apple Time Machine integration. A backup wizard is provided for backing up data from Synology DS114 to another Synology NAS, to other rsync server, or to an external drive. Backing up to Amazon S3 & Glacier cloud service is also supported. The add-on package, Time Backup, keeps Disk Station data in multiple versions, so IT administrators could easily keep track of them & restore to a previous version whenever required.