Silverstone DC01 Personal CLOUD


Posted by Neuromancer on 03 Apr 2012 / 1 Comment


Once the realm of businesses or advanced network setups, Network-attached Storage (NAS) has been gaining in popularity over the years as prices continue to fall and ease of use increases. The Silverstone DC01 Network Data Center brings Network Storage to the home with a number of extra features and simple to use interface accessible from any PC on your home network as well as zero effort Internet connectivity. Adopting new technologies such as iTunes server, DLNA and BitTorrent downloading makes the DC01 much more than a simple NAS.

About Silverstone

Founded in 2003, SilverStone is an established leader in its field, with an elite team of engineers; we started our quest of providing products that create inspirations. We have since expanded the lines of products as well as types of products we produce, giving our customers a wide selection of choices.

With distribution centers in different areas of the globe, SilverStone products can be seen all over the world, not just for computer users but also for home entertainment use. Providing leisure with integration of advanced technologies that is functional and making them enjoyable to use.

Here at SilverStone Technology, we continue to pride ourselves in providing the highest level of standards in designing and manufacturing computer enclosures, power supplies, and accessories. Our pursuit for the first class aesthetic appeal is relentless; our teams of devoted engineers are constantly searching for the best technologies that suit end-users with different needs and will make our products as technologically sound as they are beautiful.

The SilverStone DC01 Network Data Center is a simple to use Network Storage Device that supports an internally mounted 2.5” storage device. RAID is supported (0/1/JBOD) through the External SATA port located on the back of the device. 2 USB ports provide further expandability using either external USB drives or to use the device as a print server. Network connectivity is provided through the on board Gigabit Ethernet port.

Specifications

SST-DC01 Hardware Specification
Item
Description
Core IC
 Dual-core ARM 11 processor
Each core running at 750MHz
Memory
 256MB DDR2 SDRAM
256MB NAND flash
LAN
 Realtek Gigibit Ethernet controller
Auto-Negotiation, Crossover Detection & Auto-Correction
Hard drive interface
 Internal – 2.5” SATA hard drive space
(compatible with 9.5mm & 12.5mm models)
External – eSATA hard drive port
RAID function
 Integrated SATA 3Gb host ports with hardware RAID 0 and RAID 1 engines.
USB interface
 Two USB 2.0 host ports
Front IO
 1 X Dual color LED to indicate status.
Blue light – Power, Ready and Standby status.
Red light – Error status.
Rear IO
 1 X DC 5V Jack
1 X RJ45 Ethernet port with dual LEDs, Link and Activity
1 X eSATA port
2 X USB2.0 host port
1 X Power button
1 X Reset button
Enclosure material
 Aluminum + SECC
Color
 Black or Silver
Power requirement
 DC 5V / 2A
Environmental parameter
 Operating Temperature: 5°C ~ 40°C
Operating Humidity: 20%RH ~ 80%RH
Storage Temperature: -20°C ~ 70°C
Storage Humidity: 10%RH ~ 90%RH
Dimension
 123mm(W) X 123mm(D) X 33mm(H)
Weight
 500g±10g (exclude internal hard drive)
SST-DC01 Software features
Operation System
 Embedded Linux with Diskless support

  1. FTP Service
  2. SAMBA Service
  3. NFS Service (Linux)
  4. Bonjour Service (Mac)
  5. Web Service (WebDAV supported)
  6. iTunes server
  7. DLNA server
  8. Printer server
  9. USB mass storage class
  10. VPN client
  11. Auto Register to VPN/Proxy Server with MAC Address
  12. IPv6 ready
Support Operation System
 Windows XP, VISTA and 7 (32/64bit)
Apple MAC OS X
Linux
Web browser support
  1. Internet Explorer 7 or later
  2. Firefox 3 or later
  3. Safari 3 or later, iPhone/iPAD support by AP
  4. Google Chrome
Multi Languages support
 English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese(traditional and simplified)
File Systen
 Internal HDD – EXT3 and EXT4
External HDD – EXT2 ,EXT3, XFS, NTFS, FAT16, FAT32, HFS
Applications
 BitTorrent client
FTP/HTTP download manager
File Manager
  1. Upload (supports drag & drop)
  2. Download
  3. New folder
  4. Rename
  5. Copy/Cut/Paste/Delete
  6. Search File
  7. Show / Play Images and Media Files
  8. Share Folder to NAS User
  9. Share certain Folders/Files to Friends
Albums
  1. List Albums
  2. New Album
  3. Delete Album
  4. Rename Album
  5. Share Album (to NAS User)
  6. Publish Album (To NAS/Other Websites like Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Amazon)
  7. Add Photo/Media Items
  8. Rename Items
  9. Copy/Cut/Paste/Delete Items
  10. Edit Cover image
  11. Edit Description
  12. Show /Play Items
Album show
  1. Toggle View (Thumbnail / List / Slide Show / Flow View / Cooliris)
  2. Show Link (url and <img> tag)
  3. Email to
  4. Download
  5. Change Background
Media format support
  1. Quicktime web Plug-in: aif, aiff, aac, au, bmp, gsm, mov, mid, midi, mpg, mpeg, mp4, m4a, psd, qt, qtif, qif, qti, snd, tif, tiff, wav, 3g2, 3gp.
  2. Flash web Plug-in: flv, mp3, swf.
  3. Windows Mediaplayer plug-in: asx, asf, avi, wma, wmv.
  4. Realplayer plug-in: ra, ram, rm, rpm, rv, smi, smil
  5. Thumbnails: gif, jpg, jpeg, tif, tiff, bmp, png, mpg, mlv, mpg, mpeg, dat, m2v, vob, tp, ts, avi, mov, asf, mp4, wmv, rm, ra, ram, rmvb, swf, flv, qt, 3gp, h264.
System setup
  1. Get System Information
  2. Register
  3. System Log(startup/system /web server /samba/Mt-daapd/BTPD/NTP)
  4. User Management ( Sync web/ftp/samba/ iTunes)
  5. Firmware Update
  6. Disk Management
    1. Get Disk Information (Internal and External S.M.A.R.T. information).
    2. RAID0, 1, and BIG.
    3. Erase Disk (only Data Disk).
    4. Format Partition (only Data partition).
    5. Resize Partition.
    6. Mount/Remove External Disks.
  7. Disk Power Management
  8. Date and Time
    1. Time Zone.
    2. Date time.
    3. NTP Server.
  9. Network
    1. Host Name
    2. Samba Workgroup.
    3. DHCP.
    4. IP/Mask/Gateway.
    5. DNS.
    6. Jumbo Frame.
  10. Shutdown / Reboot
  11. Email Notification
  12. FTP Service Setup
  13. iTunes Service Setup
  14. BT Configuration Setup

Lets get to the pictures.

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Written by Neuromancer


1 Comment


Tobias Topyla
5 months ago



Thank you for this detailed review report! I’m currently looking for an equivalent NAS solution or at least similar non-plastic case and fanless low-voltage hardware design for single or max. dual 2,5″ bay support.

Unfortunately SST didn’t released any Firmware Updates in the year 2012, furthermore the Black edition (DC01B) isn’t really available in Europe anymore. This brings me to the question, if this year it’s already time for an improved follow-up device that has e.g. USB 3.0 and SATA-600 specification in order to max out RAID 0 setup with two SSD’s being used.


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