The Zone

Network Accessed Storage (NAS) devices are finally making the move to 2.5" sized bays and we were privileged enough to get our handson Synology's four bay 2.5" DS409slim. Featuring four 2.5" bays with each bay able to support up to 500GB for a total of 2TB this miniscule NAS is extremely small, barely taking up more space than your average mouse. The 2.5" bay size also means that power costs and cooling costs are cut down significantly. For a full review of the Synology DS409slim check out the analysis part of the SMB section for HWM Malaysia August 2009.