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baconman - Posted 12:59 pm PDT 08/27/08 (336 Posts)
Got this on sale at Microcenter for $225 a few months ago. This thing is pretty damn good and quiet, with a few whines:
The default is Raid 0, which is just asking for trouble, so first thing is to change to Raid 1 which takes FOREVER to format the drives. But it's one shot and it checks the drive status automatically from then on.
The user access model on this blows. The "guest" account does NOT work, so if you want to make things read-only, you have to create users and have matching passwords (and no blank ones, either!) for anyone that drops into your shack for files. Provided you can live with that, it's perfectly fine.
Doesn't support NTFS usb drives, so get ready to reformat those if you want to hang them on. And if you have two, you cannot Raid those, sadly.
The default is Raid 0, which is just asking for trouble, so first thing is to change to Raid 1 which takes FOREVER to format the drives. But it's one shot and it checks the drive status automatically from then on.
The user access model on this blows. The "guest" account does NOT work, so if you want to make things read-only, you have to create users and have matching passwords (and no blank ones, either!) for anyone that drops into your shack for files. Provided you can live with that, it's perfectly fine.
Doesn't support NTFS usb drives, so get ready to reformat those if you want to hang them on. And if you have two, you cannot Raid those, sadly.
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