APPLE Powerbook Special Notebook Computer

APPLE Powerbook Special Notebook Computer
Manufacturer: APPLE
Product Type: Personal Computer

Editorial Review:
Product Description
1.67GHz Power PC G4 / 512MB / 100GB Hard Drive / Up to 8x SuperDrive / 15.2 Inch Screen / Airport Xtreme

Average customer rating: 2.5

Great little NAS
This item just seemed like it should be so much better.

Serial Ata 4DRIVE Nas 2TERABYTE Raid 0 1 10 5 & Jbod

Manufacturer: US Robotics
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000H3E6JQ

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Product Description

The US Robotics Serial ATA 4-Drive Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance adds up to two Terabytes of storage. It includes powerful RAID hardware and software, the industry standard for safe storage across multiple drives and simple to understand & use wizards. With integrated Gigabit networking and print server capability, it delivers excellent performance, value, functionality and peace of mind while easily expanding shared storage. Integrated FTP Server for efficient file transfers and print server Single administrative account 64 User and 64 Group level security settings for accounts (No Access, Read Only & Read/Write) Folder level security settings with parental inheritance (sub-folders inherit security settings from parent folder) Administrative username/password login security for HTML-based configuration utility such as tools, accessible via web browser, for initial set up and for configuration after adding or removing drives Private directories for personal accounts Integrated Back-up software allows you to make an exact image of a computer's hard drive and restore it completely, in case of a catastrophic failure Automatically detects, and matches the speed of connected Ethernet devices IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet), IEEE 802.3u (Fast Ethernet), IEEE 802.3ab (Gigabit Ethernet over copper) Auto-MDIX switching ports Support for RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, and JBOD CIFS and NFS file system support Built-in backup utility with one client license and ability to activate additional licenses One RJ-45, 10/100/1000 auto-sensing & auto-switching Ethernet LAN port Eight LED - Power, Ethernet, USB 1.1 or USB 2.0, Disk 1- Disk 4 Minimum Systems Requirements - HTML configuration supported by any computer that supports TCP/IP and Web Browser (4.01 specification or greater)

Customer Reviews:

Great little NAS.......2007-03-21

This thing works well. I dropped four 500GB SATAs for 1.5TB RAID5 capacity. It's fairly quiet and unobtrusive, plus you can plug in two USB drives and/or printers and share them out. The HD caddies are great, it has a nice web-interface and you can muck around its mini-Linux back-end if you so choose. Directories that people do not have access to do not show up, which is pretty nice.

My small complaints; the USB drives must be FAT or FAT32 formatted -- NTFS does not work (the back-end is Linux). Surprisingly, ext2/3 get recognized but can't be accessed through the network (and do not auto-mount like their FAT/32 counterparts). The other is that there's no 'fast' array build option (like a quick-format). I had drives I knew were fine; there was no need to set every single block.

The only other issue is that the NAS offers no backup for itself (although you can back up your PCs with the included software); as much as I trust RAID5, I'd still like to be able to have an extra copy of some data somewhere else, and not have to do it manually (for the Linux savvy, tar is limited, and there's no cron).

As for the poster below me with the speed problems, when you first configure drives into the NAS, the software has to 'build' the array -- this can take quite some time (over 24 hours for my 2TB). In that time, you can access the NAS and the shares and everything, but it is S L O W to read/write. I play AVIs and DVD ISO images right off of it and it's smooth.

This item just seemed like it should be so much better........2007-02-18

I bought this item to store data on, but I also wanted to store video files. For example, I wanted to store ripped DVD's on the hard drive that I frequently watch. Maybe some of you reading my review will say that was a stupid idea, but the hard drives are fast, I chose a RAID that did not have a performance hit, and I have a gigabit network. I can currently play a DVD on my Athlon computer and use two other computers to copy files to the same hard drive on that computer and there is no skipping or slowing down AT ALL.

So here's the deal: This thing was so slow that while I was copying a file to it, I could not connect to the device using another computer. So imagine that it was so busy just accepting a file that I was copying that it could not service the request of making itself available to another computer.

Playing a DVD video from it was absolutely never going to work, and it didn't.

It was my experience that doing any two tasks from the unit greatly slowed down the individual performance of each task. And keep in mind, the connecting issue I mentioned above wasn't just a reduction in speed - it was unusable until those files were finished copying. That's really stinky dontcha think? I don't have that problem with a computer that is an Athlon XP 2500, and while you may say "of course you wouldn't have that problem it's a computer!" ... well I can run 5 different tasks off the hard drive on that Athlon computer and not have any discernable slowing down at all. I really think that this unit is the greatest computing idea since the hard drive, but it's ability to handle multiple requests makes this product an absolute bomb.

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