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4.0 stars
"A wealth of features that you may never use, but several you will come to love"
Pros: Simple setup, great user forum, good firmware support, FTP accessable, photo station hosting
Cons: Price, no included hard drive, no data backup
Summary: I purchased this drive after reading the CNET editors review. I was after a UnPP media storage device to be compatible with my PS3 and also to act as a backup drive for my PC and my wifes notebook.
Given prices were steep here in Australia I purchased on Ebay, with a 750GB drive for $409.
Initial setup and drive mapping was easy. However, enabling use with my PS3 required downloading the latest firmware, as it shipped with 1 year old firmware.
Transferring data and setup of photo albums and media streaming were straightforward. However, setting up ftp access to the drive (and especially setting up the photo album with a DNS address) required a long frustrating day, with a lot of time spent browsing the user forums and learning about port forwarding and DNS hosting. However, now setup it is straightforward to use and my family overseas are ecstatic about the ability to see all the photos and movie clips of our 1 week old baby as soon as I download them to my drive.
Overall I would recommend this device to anyone who has a working knowledge of network configuration, or is happy to follow setup guides.
