Netgear SC101 35.50 + S/H Geeks.com

While in-expensive for a dual bay NAS, there a some critical limitations to this device. First it is windows only. There is software that has to be installed on each machine in order to access it. Second the drives use a non-standard format so if something happens you cannot pop them out of the enclosure and hook them up to your machine to retrieve your data. Finally the reviews on this are decidedly mixed. It looks to be one of things that sounds like a good idea but the actual implementation is only 80% complete.
 
I bought one of these last weekend at Fry's for $30. Lack of gigabit ethernet support and non-standard NAS (a Windows client driver is needed, no SMB) make it less than stellar. I'm probably going to take mine back.
 
It can be formatted to NTFS, but that kills NAS functionality; it'll behave like a large, slow external drive connected via ethernet. Had one for a bit, but it was simply far too slow to keep. Nevermind the lack of gbit, it didn't even deliver 100 mbit.
 
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