Disk Station

Synology has just announced its new 2.5-inch 4-bay Disk Station DS409slim. It brings lower power consumption, virtually quiet operations and an extremely small footprint both physically and financially. The 2.5-inch hard drives increase shock tolerance and reduce power consumption, while the DS409slim only consumes 19 watts of power when running 4 2.5-inch HDDS under normal operations.

Specs:

• 4 hot-swappable hard drives
• A 1.2 GHz CPU
• 128MB DDRII RAM
• One Gigabit LAN port
• Two USB2.0 ports
• One eSATA port

The DS409slim supports up to 2 TB with the combination of four 2.5" SATA or SSD hard drives of 500GB each. The physical footprint of the DS409slim remains stylish and compact with the total size being just larger than a 12 oz coffee cup (120 x 105 x 142 mm). The DS409slim is shipping in the U.S. right now.