Introduction

DS-101 Disk Station is a file server. With DS-101 Disk Station, you can not only store files on it, but also share files throughout the network. You can store data like documents, art works, spreadsheets, presentation slides, mails, photos, recorded videos, and music files on DS-101 Disk Station, and then share them with your co-workers or home members. Besides, there are three USB 2.0 ports on DS-101 Disk Station. You can use them to connect DS-101 Disk Station to a USB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) to expand your storage capacity. You can also use them to copy data from various digital devices, like USB memory or digital cameras. The most convenient is that it's PC-free. You don't even need to turn on your computer, and you can use your digital device right after you copy the data to DS-101 Disk Station.

DS-101 Disk Station is also a backup server. With Synology Data Replicator, DS-101 Disk Station will backup files automatically. To avoid loosing files, you can also backup the data from DS-101 Disk Station to other USB HDD. DS-101 Disk Station provides free utility to PC clients connected to it. For people like designers, doctors, architects, accountants, and sales or higher executives, it's very important to have files backup. However, it may not always be easy to backup files for it might take lots of time. Therefore, let DS-101 Disk Station help you. It offers real time or automatically file backup function. It's your complete backup solution.

DS-101 Disk Station is even a print server as well. With the USB printer sharing function, you can save your time, money, and space because the USB shared printer will support all of the office or home users. The only thing you have to do is to connect the printer to DS-101 Disk Station, and everyone can print out files with DS-101 Disk Station throughout the network.

More than a 3-in-1 server, DS-101 Disk Station also offers FTP service. You can use the FTP service to upload and download files directly from the Web management Graphic User Interface (GUI) of DS-101 Disk Station. By the FTP service, you can share all kinds of data with your friends on the Internet. For business people, you don't need to carry the data you need with you, but use FTP to put it on the Internet, and you can open it anywhere with the Internet.

DS-101 Disk Station will definitely be an extremely useful tool for SOHO or home user like you. With DS-101 Disk Station, it will be convenient to store, share, backup, and print files. It is easy to install and operate, and noise free while in use. With the least cost, you can have the most performance. You are surely already reaping the benefits of Synology DS-101 Disk Station.

Applications

Small Office and Home Office

Small business users, such as accountants, art designers, dentists, lawyers, and real-estate brokers often store years of valuable client information on their Windows or Mac PC hard drives without doing any backup or redundancy. However, chances are that all the business data might be lost someday and cause users a great trouble. DS-101 Disk Station allows Windows and Macintosh clients to store, share, backup and print files for your multiple demands.

Due to the limited budget of small office/home office (SOHO) and home users, it is hard to choose a server at an affordable cost yet with high performance and expandability. SOHO users might also consider factors, such as being easy to install and manage, reliable, noiseless, supporting to multiple functions, scalable, able to serve as a print server, and direct input provided. Here Synology are happy to tell you that with DS-101 Disk Station, you are already embracing these benefits mentioned above.

For those SOHO and home users, DS-101 Disk Station is a cost effective and complete solution to their server requirements. Even if small business and home offices have already had an expensive server installed, when the server storage is full, the low cost DS-101 Disk Station is still an ideal and quick solution for storage expansion.

Educational Market

Students in small classes can use DS-101 Disk Station to store, share, exchange, backup and print files in school at a very low cost. Schools can have useful DS-101 Disk Station to enrich facilities without huge investment.

Home User

The increasing holding of residential broadband and use of digital multimedia in music, videos and still images has contributed to the growing need of large-capacity storage systems. To enrich your digital life at home, you may have DS-101 Disk Station store thousands of MP3 music files downloaded from the Internet. Family members can then share and backup MP3 music files and play them on their own PC all day long through a home network. Moreover you may even share digital photos and still images (image files) with friends and family.

DS-101 Disk Station is easy to install, configure, and operate for home users. It can serve as your network's DHCP server. There is a copy switch on the front panel. You just need to press the front panel copy button to save pictures, videos, image files and data onto DS-101 Disk Station. It's easy and quick.

ISP

With a fixed IP address, an ISP service provider can use DS-101 Disk Station to pre-load video, image, and multimedia files from an ISP service center to the user during their free time, thus to reduce the network transmission load at a busy hour.

Private Backup for Business People

DS-101 Disk Station relieves your notebook and desktop backup headaches. Free Data Replicator software provides constant backup of Windows PC and Notebook files. Notebook files are backed up to local drives while disconnected from the network, then they are automatically saved to DS-101 Disk Station when the notebook is reconnected to the network.

Portable Storage

Because of being small and lightweight, DS-101 Disk Station is a portable device allowing users to bring or move their data center to their customer's site for business presentations, data storage, data sharing and printer sharing.

Specifications