500GB Soho Nas Desktop Hard Drive
From SmartDisk
Share files between computers within your small office/home office (SOHO) network, using Verbatim's network attached storage (NAS) drive. Easily set up a computer network using the provided auto-configuration protocols, such as DHCP or Apple Bonjour to centralize your music, photos, video, and data files. Verbatim's NAS with Ethernet/USB connections, is ideal for backing up any PC or MAC on your network. By using a network drive, you can create multiple users and user groups. Network users can be assigned privileges and read/write access to data. To expand the reaches of your network, install a USB printer to your network of computers through the drives USB port for all to use.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #85750 in Consumer Electronics
- Brand: SmartDisk
- Model: 96436
- Dimensions: 400.00" h x 1050.00" w x 1125.00" l, 5.00 pounds
- Hard Disk: 500GB
Move away from the NAS!
I purchased the Verbatim Soho NAS drive to use as a share backup drive and music repository. Little did I knbow taht if using Vista Home Premium and wondows XP workstations and laptops, it will most likely give you fits and starts and really bad throughput. When put on a dedicated switch at my home for only backups, with samba enabled and user id's matching all accounts, only the XP machines can connect, and not always reliabily.
The more data you copy or write to the drive the slower the network gets froim the perspective of the drive and the host machines.
There is no support or updates from Verbatim since 2006.
Not worth the trouble for any situation.
