Re: Network Storage SC101

[Andy Davies <dajdavies@xxxxxxxxx>]

Reading some stuff on the web I'm not too sure about it, apparently it
uses some proprietary disk format so if it goes phut you need another
SC101 to read the disk and needs software to be installed on the client
machines...

On the plus side it's a good price, I wonder how long it'll take for
someone to replace the OS with bog standard Linux?

Andy

David Cole wrote:

>I know that there has been alot of talk about network storage
>recently, I have been very tempted to take the plunge and go for some
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>Today I saw the first Netgear SC101 in the UK.
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>http://tinyurl.com/c6l2h
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>This little beauty really does everything that I'm after.
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>It connects over the network but then can be seen as a standard drive
>on all the networked pc's or just those that have access rights set.
>It can show all the drives as a single letter i.e. a number of drives
>just showing as a single big one or split into numerous sections.
>It has mirroring not just across the drives in the unit but also
>across SC101's
>It comes with automatic synching software so no I can keep that back
>up of my pictures and music.
>Some of the technicalities baffled my but the guy demonstrating it did
>say that it could stream five movies to five pc's at the same time.
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>It's not yet available, I did try to get it in my bag, but it is
>definitely on my Christmas list.
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>Dave
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