 "Awesome space, energy, and time saver!" | 2009-11-22 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1M833J1TRT1AM |
| I used to run a full desktop system for file and printer sharing. My wife and I use our laptops downstairs, and the box upstairs was our server. Our 400-watt server that seemed to constantly need upgrades and maintenance. I connected the network-capable printer directly to the router and took that function out of the equation. The Linksys NAS200 was a great replacement for our storage needs. Two 1.5 TB green drives, the low power consumption of the unit itself, and about 15 minutes of installation and prep - it's amazing. I wish I had done this a year ago! |
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 "Too slow" | 2009-10-20 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1EGID42C58O7 |
I liked the features of the NAS200 and went ahead and purchased it even though many of the online reviews complained about the overall speed of the device.
In the end, this unit was too slow fo rme to work with. It took hours to load my picture and music files to the NAS unit, and actually working through the files was painful.
I retruned this unit and purchased a different one. I suggest that if you are looking for a low-cost network storage unit that performs well, you look at the Iomega or Western Digital products. Niether has the disk configuration features of the Linksys NAS200, but both have the performance that you need. |
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| "Linksys Network Storage System with 2 Bays (NAS200)" | 2009-10-08 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3L25I1XNH326A |
| If you are looking for a high speed enterprise solution, this is NOT what you want. If you are looking for a file share solution for a workgroup environment, this is IT. I matched my unit up with 2x WD 1TB green drives (lower power consumption and heat) and it is on 24-7 with no problems. I would buy this product again if I had to do it all over. |
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| "Obsolete from the start, obsolete-er today." | 2009-10-03 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2LFNFWGEZQTLH |
I purchased this NAS a few years ago when both my storage drive and my backup drive failed for two different reasons in the same day and I lost almost every family/barracks photo I ever took. The hardware appears good, stacks right under a Linksys router well, and the drives are easy to install and swap around like I never do but could if one failed. Raid 1 is essential since drives fail so frequently and suddenly and that was the primary selling point for me. If only there had been reviews out when I bought it, I would have gotten something else. There is a button on the front that is supposed to back up... something. I don't know what, maybe a random shared file from a random computer on the network and saves to an unknown location. Usually you have to tell things what directories to back up from/to but that option is not available in the firmware so it seems to do nothing but look useful. That's about everything good I can say. Now for the truth. It's slow, very slow. It takes hours to transfer movies with FTP and SMB. There is no NFS capability. Usually (as in every time I can think of but I'm sure there was a time it didn't) it's too slow to view a movie directly over the network and you must copy the movie to your local drive first to avoid buffering. The firmware is too dumbed down to be useful and you have very little control over things, the designers must be mac users or assume the customer can't handle what they purchased. The firmware also likes to make up it's own mind over who can view what files. I had the hardest time figuring out why I keep logging into the guest account when I made no guest account and gave no rights to the guest account that cannot be removed. For some reason, probably the bad hardware and the better alternative NAS from linksys, nobody has made a 3rd party firmware and only one person shows interest but was too busy to ever finish it. Linksys firmware has always just been a cheap/unstable placeholder until you put your own firmware in the router or whatever and they were bought for their good hardware but now I'm seeing how they are now cheaping out on hardware too. I probably wouldn't trust anything new from the linksys line now aside from the WRT54GL(and like hardware) and the NSLU2. But those are older items before they started cheaping out. If you want to add a drive to your network, get the Nslug and an external drive enclosure. It's cheaper, faster, more flexible. Did I mention the NAS200 likes to create files that cannot be deleted? Yeah, sometimes I have to title a folder full of files as "deleted" so I know it's supposed to be deleted but I cannot delete it through my GUI or any of the command line methods. Apparently the files are viewed in SMB but are not on the drive and nobody on the usual forums knows how to fix this either.
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| "Great Value" | 2009-09-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3RX38WWSQRDU7 |
I love it!
I have it connected to my network and all of the PCs are wireless and everything still works great. Also use it as a media center for the XBox to connect to and I'm able to play all of the music through the TV surround sound.
I have 2 other external drives which are connected to it as well. Everything works together wonderfully!
I honestly could not be happier. |
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 "It does the job, a little bit slower." | 2009-09-09 |
| - Reviewed By idbar |
I have a WD MyBookWorld II, I bought this NAS to expand the storage at home.
The installation and setup of the linksys is really easy. Plug the hard drives, turn it on, configure the hard drives in the RAID you want, some users to get access to it and that's it.
PROS: Easy to install, software resides on the box, not the hard drives (makes it easy to upgrade, unlike the WD where the OS resides on the harddrives and upgrading causes several headaches).
CONS: Slow. I thought the WD was slow until I tried this one. The transfer speeds make really hard to watch high quality videos remotely. The real throughput never reaches even closer to the 100Mbps, even when the client is directly plugged to the switch.
If you want a simple backup mechanism, this may be an option, but for permanent access, perhaps there are better options out there. The HDDs connected to the USB ports are always public to everyone, unless you format them from within the box, to get linked to users. |
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