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Promise SmartStor™ NS4300N Network Storage Server
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Price Range $402 - $499 Product Description Support up to four hot-swappable SATA 3Gb/s hard drives, NS4300N allows you to expand capacity as your needs grow at the lowest incremental cost. Comprehensive file sharing protocols support enables cross-platform file services for Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Macintosh.
Victim of the Two Toed Fairy
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Written By zero_ Date Written Aug 01 2007 Summary There's a lot to say about the SmartStor, but a lot of it's going to have to go unsaid on my part. Most of it involves one or more of George Carlin's seven dirty words. The SmartStor is a Network Attached Storage device that stands alone as a... Strength Smart hardware design. Weakness Broken and buggy software. Incomplete features touted as selling points in marketing literature. Bottom Line Broken, incomplete software. Promise of Active Directory compatibility is a lie. Quick to set up, quick to find problems, but cheap!
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Written By slam_to Date Written Feb 21 2008 Summary This NAS is pretty good for the money, it's probably the cheapest NAS available. However it does have a few problems, these may or may not be show-stoppers for you. Right out of the box the NAS worked (firmware version was: 01.03.0000.06). Setup with... Strength cheap, easy to set up (to a point), nice package integration Weakness proprietary format, file deletion takes long time, fan noise too loud Bottom Line It's nice and cheap, works (kinda), has a lot of features, but a few design flaws keeps it from being the ultimate NAS. I'm satisfied
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Written By mrtrevisan Date Written Oct 18 2007 Summary I was looking for a decent RAID-enabled NAS for a small net (one Win-Xp-Pro host, one Linux host and some other "embedded" appliances). My primary requirement was that it MUST handle a disk failure and reconstruct the RAID array without any problem,... Strength Array reconstruction works properly. Fast setup and use in simple network. Temperature remains low Weakness Hardware is good, software could be better. Can't set the SMTP port for notifications. Bottom Line For home/small networks it's a good choice. May not be as good for fine-grained user management or AD/NIS. I've used the Smartstor for 3 months in my SOHO
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Written By lossprevention Date Written Oct 01 2007 Summary After reading the 2 other reviews posted you'd think this was a waste of plastic and silicon. Nothing is further from the truth. A perfect solution it isn't, but turn key it is. I loaded in the drives, plugged it in, pinged my IP and set it to a static... Strength cost, looks, ease of setup. Weakness imbedded memory not upgradeable, the white noise of the fans could be a bit objectionable Bottom Line If you need a NAS today get the NS4300n, Let the market mature a year and let the hardware mature or in my opinion you'll be sorry later.  |
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