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- Reviewed on: 12/08/2004
- Released on: 09/01/2004
Inside the stylish black-and-silver case of the Tritton WiFi NAS is an off-the-shelf 7,200rpm hard drive. But with only 2MB of hardware cache, the drive is hardly equipped for high performance. The enclosure, which is so large that it should have been able to hold two drives, can sit horizontally or vertically with the included base. It wobbles, however, and its front-mounted cooling fans mar an otherwise appealing design. Large, bright LEDs show diagnostics, drive activity, network action, and whether the drive is full.
As far as its wireless capabilities go, the Tritton WiFi NAS can communicate with 802.11b and 802.11g clients. It relies on 64- or 128-bit WEP encryption, not the latest WPA security protocol. Tritton plans to update the WiFi NAS by the end of the year with WPA, multimedia features, and wireless-client capability. Further out on the horizon, Tritton is considering using the WiFi NAS as an FTP server.
Setting up the WiFi NAS is quick and easy: plug in the included AC adapter, make contact wirelessly via a Wi-Fi notebook or a desktop computer, and map the drive. The device comes with two CDs that hold the detailed 50-page manual and the included software bundle. After loading the required software, the 120MB drive on our test unit yielded 112,412MB of usable space and was ready for use by any computer running Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Mac OS X or higher. Rather than using FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, or another popular formatting scheme, the WiFi NAS relies on the Linux-based EXT3 partitioning format. The software misplaces its formatting command in the Reset section of the interface. While you can reformat the drive as NTFS, you can't adjust cluster size or allocation units.
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