Netgear Storage Central SC101 review
Buy: If you want an economical solution, which will work straight out of the box 98% of the time, and you have a typical home network with no complications, and none of your computers have spare drive bays you are happy to configure for your own backup drives.
Don’t buy: If any of the above don’t apply, or you want direct addressable storage from any part of your network, or you have critical data protection requirements, or your network is not currently configured using or can not use dynamic host configuration protocol (DCHP), or is using non standard private addressing range
This is not a prefect technical solution and is unsatiable for anything larger than a typical home or micro office environments. 6/10 for design and implementation, 9/10 for effort and usefulness.
Effectively: If you don’t know how or why your network works, this is probably perfect. If you do know what you are doing, you will almost certainly have tweaked something somewhere which will make this unusable or unnecessarily complicated to make work.
System Requirements:
Windows 2000(SP4), XP Home or Pro (SP1 or SP2), Windows 2003(SP4);
DHCP server in the network;
Compatible with ATA6 or above IDE (Parallel ATA) hard disks;
Physical Specifications:
Dimensions 6.75" x 4.25" x 5.66" (L x W x H);
Ambient Operating Temperature 0°-35° C;
Package Contents:
Storage Central SC101;
12V, 5A power adapter, localized to country of sale;
Ethernet cable;
Installation Guide;
Resource CD;
SmartSync Pro Backup Software CD;
Warranty/Support information card
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Product reviewed: Netgear Storage Central SC101
Reviewer: Michael Hart
Score: 7.5/10
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