Brian MP5T
10-31-2007, 03:44 PM
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My experience has been good.... Others has been VERY VERY BAD..
http://blog.forret.com/tag/hardware/
http://blog.forret.com/2006/07/netgear-sc-101-urgent-support-required/#more-375
Opinions for NetGear SC101 Storage Central (0GB)
Rating 9/10 Very good
User Summary
"Works Perfect, But SLOW"
by BRIANMP5T (see profile) - October 31, 2007
Pros: Small, Cheap NAS Solution. Works Great if you have a good base in computers. Will Work with Vista, Will Work Solid only if firmware updates are done. Will Host and work as a Movie Server.
Cons: Transfer Time Makes This Unit Almost Useless. Even on a Giga-Network. The unit is easily one tenth as fast as a USB External drive transfer to... I have two 250 GB drives. It has taken 16 Hours to add 450Gb of Data. Transfer from is much better however... Still worse than a USB Drive.
Buy This Unit, It works very well, you must must update the firmware! Warning! If you plan to use it as a file server, it will be totally outclassed by any cheap USB drive that can be shared on a network. Very very slow file transfers, unbearable actually. It would be faster to read from a Floppy Drive. Once the files are on the drive, they are easily streamed to any media player with only a very minimal seek delay. The unit will serve it's role for me so overall I am pleased. If you want a file server, buy a bare bone computer with RAID on the Mobo and build a file server, it will be a bit more expensive, but it will be 1000 times faster. The ability for the owner to add drives on the fly is great. The interface program is easy to install in Vista or XP. The fact that you can use your old IDE drives is great too. When the unit has worked for constant duty for over one hour, it does get warm, but the drives are still within a normal range. When not being used, the drive is cold as ice. Hope this helps.
My experience has been good.... Others has been VERY VERY BAD..
http://blog.forret.com/tag/hardware/
http://blog.forret.com/2006/07/netgear-sc-101-urgent-support-required/#more-375
Opinions for NetGear SC101 Storage Central (0GB)
Rating 9/10 Very good
User Summary
"Works Perfect, But SLOW"
by BRIANMP5T (see profile) - October 31, 2007
Pros: Small, Cheap NAS Solution. Works Great if you have a good base in computers. Will Work with Vista, Will Work Solid only if firmware updates are done. Will Host and work as a Movie Server.
Cons: Transfer Time Makes This Unit Almost Useless. Even on a Giga-Network. The unit is easily one tenth as fast as a USB External drive transfer to... I have two 250 GB drives. It has taken 16 Hours to add 450Gb of Data. Transfer from is much better however... Still worse than a USB Drive.
Buy This Unit, It works very well, you must must update the firmware! Warning! If you plan to use it as a file server, it will be totally outclassed by any cheap USB drive that can be shared on a network. Very very slow file transfers, unbearable actually. It would be faster to read from a Floppy Drive. Once the files are on the drive, they are easily streamed to any media player with only a very minimal seek delay. The unit will serve it's role for me so overall I am pleased. If you want a file server, buy a bare bone computer with RAID on the Mobo and build a file server, it will be a bit more expensive, but it will be 1000 times faster. The ability for the owner to add drives on the fly is great. The interface program is easy to install in Vista or XP. The fact that you can use your old IDE drives is great too. When the unit has worked for constant duty for over one hour, it does get warm, but the drives are still within a normal range. When not being used, the drive is cold as ice. Hope this helps.