Synology DS207+ NAS Server

 

The Synology DS207+ incorporates a surprisingly feature-rich and well laid out motherboard. Once again, the two images below illustrate how the 60mm fan cools both sides of the motherboard.

 

 

 

The DS207+ features solid capacitors over the entire motherboard, with not so much as one electrolytic capacitor to be seen. The CPU used is a Marvell 88F5BF01 C500 500Mhz SoC (System on a Chip) processor, and does not require a heatsink (below).

 

 

The DS207+ features a Marvell 88SX7042 Serial ATA Controller chip. It provides a dedicated channel for each SATA port, supports hot-plug SATA drives and is compliant with both SATA 1.0 and SATA II, including Native Command Queuing (NCQ). The Marvell 88SX7042 controller chip supports SATA PM, direct SATA connections and Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC).

 

The DS207+ also comes equipped with a Spansion S29AL032D90TF103 4MB Flash RAM chip.

 

 

Rounding off our little tour of the DS207+ motherboard, we arrive at the two 64MB Hynix HY5DU121622DTP-D43 IC’s which equates to 128MB of onboard RAM.

  

 

Let’s head over the page to see how easy the Synology DS207+ is to install.