Synology’s installation CD makes it a painless task of setting up the DS210j. The Quick Installation Guide covers the physical drive installation from the page before and the software configuration we’re about to look at. You can launch the server configuration software directly from the CD or install the Synology Assistant onto your operating system. The Data Replicator allows you to backup data from your PC to the server, the Download Redirector enables you to easily manage the download queue of your Synology server and last but not least the User Guide is self-explanatory.

I prefer to work locally off the hard drive and keep my DVD drive empty so I went installed the Synology Agent which took less than 1 minute.

After launching the Synology Agent, you can see which devices are on your network.

If you double click on the server it will launch the Disk Station Manager 2.2 where you will have a variety of configuration options. We’ll touch on these in a bit. If you have not configured the hard drives, you can do with the Synology Assistant Installation tab. A couple of prompts and you’ll be on your way to using the DS210j.

If click on the Resource Tab of the Synology Assistant you can connect to the server and monitor CPU, Memory, Network and Drive space usage. It’s a simple 2 step process where Synology prompts you for network settings and administrator password before confirmation.

Once you’ve logged into the online Disk Station Manager 2.2 you’re presented with a ton of options. There are two key steps necessary to start using the DS210j: setup your storage volume and user privileges. With those two features done, you can start storing files onto the NAS.

Network file sharing is only the surface of what the DS210j is capable of. For starters, there is a whole host of administrative capabilities. I’ll only start to list what you can do and take a screen shot of the features.

Information
• Status
• Resource Monitor
• Log
• About

System
• Network
• Language
• PPPoE
• Time
• Notification
• Power
• Restore Defaults
• Firmware Update
• Package Management

Privileges
• User
• Group
• Share Folder
• Application Setting

Storage
• HDD Management
• Volume
• S.M.A.R.T.
• iSCSI Target

File Sharing
• Win/Mac OS
• FTP
• NFS
• File Station

Network Services
• Web Services
• DDNS
• Terminal
• Firewall
• SNMP
• Auto Block

Applications
• Media Server
• iTunes
• Audio Station
• Photo Station
• Download Station
• Surveillance Station

Backup
• Backup
• Network Backup Service
• Configuration Backup

External Devices
• USB Disk
• USB Printer
• USBCopy
• UPS

Let’s do some benchmarking to see how fast the Synology DS210j really is with the Marvell processor.

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