Paging Champ - NAS

Well, mini cheap NAS review:

When getting an email from goods-inward to suggest that you 'have a
package' (fnarr) do not skip gleefully down the stairs, you'll trip over
your own flares and bruise your knees in front of a group of bemused
people. (I did a rather nice slide across the polished atrium though)


Anyway, it comes in a decent box, with all the right bits of stuff:
USB cable, power brick and cable, little stand, hard drive screws.
A nice touch is that they include a butter screwdriver so you don't have
to wander off and find one. I like toys where the first instruction is
'dismantle'.

It's real metal construction (tm) and seems pretty well made. The power
button is very gentle to operate and could be knocked.

I've shoved a 40gig drive into it that was lying on my desk. The manual
suggests a top limit of 300gig but the WEB says theoretical 2Tb max. MMV
but I can't test that yet.

After reassembly and pluggery, disappointment arrives in the form of a
fucked power lead (no light on brick). A new lead has got it working
fine, could be fuse, no idea. I don't have a multimeter or anything
useful to hand.

It gives a half blue, half purple light on start-up which settles down to
a cool blue when running, possibly enough light to be annoying in a dark
room. The light flicks purple (red bleeding into blue I guess) when data
gets transferred.

I created a file on it with a macbook over smb which didn't appear to
turn up on the thing, dragged a folder into it and got the same, although
it gave a copy dialogue.
Logged out and back in and the stuff was there.
I've just copied some more stuff to it and it seems to have shown up as
I'd expect it to.
I streamed music off it whilst pushing data to it and it coped without a
cough.
I've not tried anything usb with it.

For the money, I'm feeling pretty happy with it so far.
If I find any deal breakers I'll squeal.

 

This...

And this...

Begs me to ponder: are you really a girl?

Thanks for the review.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Switters

I've met her and I can say that if she's not, she does a fucking good
impression.

 

Coo. I got all impatient yesterday and ordered one anyway, on the
basis that I had 14 days to send it back.

How long did it take between you placing your order and delivery?

Hmmm. The whole point of me getting one is to put this here 1Tb drive
in it. We'll see.

That sounds all positive enough.

Thanks for the review.

 

Ordered on the 2nd at 7:30pm,
Order confirmed on the 3rd 8.00am
Delivered on the 5th by (I believe) Royal Mail.

Oh, the box says 'ide and sata' but the cables are only sata. There are
two boards inside joined with what looks like an IDE header. I've not yet
worked out if/how one can put in a non sata drive.

Maybe I'll wait to see what you find with your drive before I order my
1Tb drive, I'd be much obliged if you could let me know the results of
your efforts.

Not a problem.

 

Ooh, that sounds good - my order was placed on the morning of the 4th
and confirmed (by PayPal) that evening.

Will do.

Perhaps, for everyone else's benefit, we should say that we're talking
about this : http://www.mediacase.co.uk/ ?

 

Stupid dhcp seems to be broken on it.
if you plug it in at the same time as being on a wifi network it goes
tits up in short order.
It doesn't need to send dhcp, so I killed it.
It could work, but it's changing the default route!

*fiddle fiddle*

 

So far, my DLINK DNS-323 is doing exactly what it says on the tin.

 

<clicks>

Looks nice, I made a bit of a cock up when we moved, I went wireless
instead of re-wiring and adding cat5e throughout. Now we're moving I
can't be arsed, the house we're moving to *will* have a proper network,
after I've kitted out the garage obviously.

We really should sort out those Turbo bits, they're really getting in
the way now I've got 2 and 3/4 bikes in the garage. Do you have an
impending "back to work" timescale?

 

I sincerely hope that's not in the biblical sense. My minds eye would curl
up otherwise.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Beav

Not in the biblical sense.

 

Fine by me, I'm off all next week, where and when?

toastyhamster at hotmail dot com if you prefer.

Anybody else fancy an overpriced beer in Leamington on Wednesday lunch?

 

? If you paid the price on their website for the version with the 250Gb
drive, then you're looking at, say, €130.

I got the enclosure + 2 750Gb drives for a little under €350.
Relatively speaking, it's not that much more.

 

Well, they're different interfaces on different network segments, it's
entirely legitimate to run dhcp on two separate networks to which one
connects. VPNs often do this. It's the implementation that's bollocks,
because this device is NOT a router, cannot route traffic and so giving
a gateway out is entirely pointless.
I used to do some quite fun routing for my work VPN so that I could
download torrents on MY connection whilst doing work on the vpn such
that never the twain should meet. Linux is good for that, my plastic Mac
is a bit too rubberised to make it so easy.