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(109 customer reviews) 84 of 85 people found the following review helpful
Works, but slow,
August 31, 2007 Eric Rose (VT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cisco-Linksys Network Storage System with 2 Bays (NAS200) (Personal Computers)
The others have said it as well as I can. I agree with almost everything written (except the brief 2 line review that says it stinks). But here is my pro/con/comment report:
Pros: Very easy to setup. Very easy to install SATA drives (no cables, just slide in like a hot-swappable scsi drive). NO CLIENT SOFTWARE needed to map drives (just connect to \\nas200\sharename). Web based configuration so no software needed to manage. Option to power down hard drives after 10/20 minutes of inactivity, then another option to power down internal fan 10/20 minutes AFTER hard drives power down (to allow case to cool, I guess. This option makes the unit completely silent when not in use (this wasn't mentioned in other reviews). Inserting a USB hard drive (even one previously formatted as NTFS) results in instant detection, AND instant default share created (\\nas200\disk_1_1 for USB1). (to remove the usb external drive while the NAS is running press the small eject button next to...Read more
59 of 60 people found the following review helpful
Just what our busy home network needed!,
April 4, 2008 John Downing (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cisco-Linksys Network Storage System with 2 Bays (NAS200) (Personal Computers)
I read alot of pretty negative reviews of the NAS 200 but decided to buy it anyway. My experience with this product has been entirely positive. I owned the earlier 'SLUG' model from Linksys and the NAS 200 is a massive improvement.
Many of the reviews talk about how slow the NAS 200 is at uploading/downloading. Personally I just don't notice it as a problem. In fact it seems pretty fast to me. My primary interest was to install a RAID 1 backup server with good FTP server access so I could easily get to my files while on the road. I dropped two 500 GB SATA drives into the unit and configured RAID 1 giving me around 450GB of storage with the comfort that if either drive fails, I can replace it and not lose any data.
The FTP server function seems to work well. I configured all the computers in the house to be able to easily connect to the NAS 200 through Windows Explorer and I setup the free (1 year) Dynamic DNS service so I can navigate to the NAS 200 from...Read more
42 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Easy setup, very stable, horrible large file transfer speeds,
July 31, 2007 E. West (Federal Way, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cisco-Linksys Network Storage System with 2 Bays (NAS200) (Personal Computers)
Linksys could not make it any easier to set up this device. The install utility work with Windows Vista, sets up the drives, and automatically maps a network drive. Unfortunately, the transfer speeds are absolutely terrible. Moving 5 files for a total of 5.30GB, from the pc to the NAS200 took just under 40 minutes with an average transfer speed of less than 3.60MB/sec. Since it has a 10/100 interface I knew the theoretical maximum transfer speed was 12.5MB/sec and I was hoping to get somewhere around 8-10MB/sec on writes and reads. But, to get less than 3.60MB/sec is pathetic. Once the files are transferred, the access time before the files will be display is even worse. My 5 files took almost 12 seconds for before they were ready to be accessed.
However, the bright side is if you set up the device using RAID1 and move all your files to the NAS200 in the event something goes wrong and you lose a drive, just take out the busted one and replace it with a new one. I have no...Read more
