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[DEAD]Netgear SC101 Refurb Storage Center Network Attached LAN Dual HDD Enclosure
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This looks interesting (and like a toaster).
Couple questions though. It does say it performs automatic backups, but how? Does it backup the information to the 2nd (and optional) hard drive or over the network to a hdd on another computer? Also, is the hard drive continuously on and thus shortening the life of the drive?
Couple questions though. It does say it performs automatic backups, but how? Does it backup the information to the 2nd (and optional) hard drive or over the network to a hdd on another computer? Also, is the hard drive continuously on and thus shortening the life of the drive?
funboy6942
Lifer
I have already made a hot deals on this, and have 3 of these myself. I have YET to have ANY of the problems with ANY of the ones I have that all of the reviews of the other people have bitched about they were having with this.
If you need a very cheap box for the network this is the best thing since sliced bread IMO. It uses its own divers which can be a bad thing for some, but like for me is a KICK BUTT thing.
It puts a letter drive on the computer you install the driver on after you hook the unit to your router
When you hook the unit to the router and set it up you can make many letter drives out of one huge drive, say a 500 gig hdd. You can split that up into 5 100 gig letter drives.
This has allowed me to put a small 40 gig hdd in my kids computers and then install the 101's drivers on their system and anything I install, games, pictures, get routed to the 101, and since it shows up as a letter drive and not one thats a network drive it kinda fools the pc into thinking that drive is in that pc and not on the network.
Another use I found for it is for my Gametap subscription. Instead of my kids and I downloading 100+ gigs of games on each individual computer, and since each computer sees the 101 as a physical drive in the pc, when we set up game tap we make sure all games and saves go to one hdd in one pig and share the files over the network. This way we dont have games taking up space on 3 different computers for mostly the same games, all the files, game saves, and game install files are all on one hdd in one of the 3 101's.
I also use them for sharing movies, tv caps, music, and bought games as well. Because you dont need a "Main" pc running to have these work, I have all my kids movies, games, and tv shows on it. Also because I can password protect these suckers I have a drive thats all mine so I can watch my shows in my HT, here at this pc, or my Bedroom, and if my oldest thought he could be slick and try to mount my drive he would not only need to know that password but the main password as well. This way you do not need to have a HTPC running all the time to run any movie content to a Media extender in another rom, you can use this, build a cheap ass HTPC, and then it wil do more then just movies, you can during watching a show not have to pause you movie, get up, got to the room where the computer is at your streaming from to a media extender to, can get one of these for $27, build a $100 HTPC, and can sit in one place, watch movies, play games, PM/IM people, and check emails without ever having to get up, and as far as live tv goes, you have the HDTV right there hooked up to cable/sat anyway, or put a tv tuner card into the HTPC you built. By doing this, your not leaving on in another room a computer with 2-4 tv tuners, a power hungry video card, a power hungry cpu, all powered with a 600+ watt power supply for the pigs use just 12 volts and 5 amps, thats it, and when they power down the hdd's, even less 😉
Games that work without having to install them more then one time, can be shared off the pig on every computer. Say you buy and install pop cap games. When you install them games to a drive letter "z" on your pig on that pc, you can then go on your kids computer and open that same pig, find the game install, right click on the games EXE icon and make a shortcut to the desktop, and bam, one install, one shared pig, one shared game on all computers hooked up to it without having to install it 2+ times on different pc's around the home. Those with kids and games that dont need a cd installed to run, lots of little kids games are like this, or can be made to be like this, will eliminate that child from needing the disc ever again, making more scratches, or ruining yet another disc.
The ONLY down side to these, if you want to call it that, and only if you have high hopes of getting $400 performance out of a $20 unit, is its not all that fast when you try to move large amounts of files all at once. It tops off at 365kbs according to GT when downloading games off their service to the "pig" as we like to call them, for its kinda what they look like. So all my huge file moves I did from my pc to it I did mostly during the night when I was sleeping, other then that, I have yet to have any problems at all, no computer locking, it freezes for a split second for they drives shut off after 15 minutes of inactivity, once up to speed, "my computer" folder then shows all my drives. As for heat I tested this with IDENTICAL drives. One WD 250 in the pig, and another sitting outside my case as I was transferring files from it to the other 250 in the pig, and they were BOTH super hot, and both near the same temps, in the same places. Most people who bitch about the pigs getting hot dont understand or know that their hard drive in their case since that they cant touch it is as hot, but since the pig is like one huge aluminum heat sink, they can touch it and go, ooooo this is bad, its hot 😛 But unlike a pc, if these are not being used by anyone they shut down, which means unlike a pc, they have cool down periods which can extend the life of the drives because they are not running the whole time they are on like they would be from the time you turned on your computer till the time you turned it off.
So me personally I would take the reviews of the other people with a grain of salt and think about where and what kind of person that person is who said this thing is junk as far as their skills, what high hopes they had, and so forth for I wish I had bought these a lot sooner now that finding a IDE hdd is pretty hard. I have some sata to IDE adapters I plan on trying at some point and seeing if I can use an adapter so I can put in SATA drives into one of these. But feel free anyone to ask me anything about them, I been through and have used them for pretty much everything. I have 2 500gig segates in one, 2 matching 250 wd unitis in another, one 250gig wd and a 200 gig seagate in another one.
If you need a very cheap box for the network this is the best thing since sliced bread IMO. It uses its own divers which can be a bad thing for some, but like for me is a KICK BUTT thing.
It puts a letter drive on the computer you install the driver on after you hook the unit to your router
When you hook the unit to the router and set it up you can make many letter drives out of one huge drive, say a 500 gig hdd. You can split that up into 5 100 gig letter drives.
This has allowed me to put a small 40 gig hdd in my kids computers and then install the 101's drivers on their system and anything I install, games, pictures, get routed to the 101, and since it shows up as a letter drive and not one thats a network drive it kinda fools the pc into thinking that drive is in that pc and not on the network.
Another use I found for it is for my Gametap subscription. Instead of my kids and I downloading 100+ gigs of games on each individual computer, and since each computer sees the 101 as a physical drive in the pc, when we set up game tap we make sure all games and saves go to one hdd in one pig and share the files over the network. This way we dont have games taking up space on 3 different computers for mostly the same games, all the files, game saves, and game install files are all on one hdd in one of the 3 101's.
I also use them for sharing movies, tv caps, music, and bought games as well. Because you dont need a "Main" pc running to have these work, I have all my kids movies, games, and tv shows on it. Also because I can password protect these suckers I have a drive thats all mine so I can watch my shows in my HT, here at this pc, or my Bedroom, and if my oldest thought he could be slick and try to mount my drive he would not only need to know that password but the main password as well. This way you do not need to have a HTPC running all the time to run any movie content to a Media extender in another rom, you can use this, build a cheap ass HTPC, and then it wil do more then just movies, you can during watching a show not have to pause you movie, get up, got to the room where the computer is at your streaming from to a media extender to, can get one of these for $27, build a $100 HTPC, and can sit in one place, watch movies, play games, PM/IM people, and check emails without ever having to get up, and as far as live tv goes, you have the HDTV right there hooked up to cable/sat anyway, or put a tv tuner card into the HTPC you built. By doing this, your not leaving on in another room a computer with 2-4 tv tuners, a power hungry video card, a power hungry cpu, all powered with a 600+ watt power supply for the pigs use just 12 volts and 5 amps, thats it, and when they power down the hdd's, even less 😉
Games that work without having to install them more then one time, can be shared off the pig on every computer. Say you buy and install pop cap games. When you install them games to a drive letter "z" on your pig on that pc, you can then go on your kids computer and open that same pig, find the game install, right click on the games EXE icon and make a shortcut to the desktop, and bam, one install, one shared pig, one shared game on all computers hooked up to it without having to install it 2+ times on different pc's around the home. Those with kids and games that dont need a cd installed to run, lots of little kids games are like this, or can be made to be like this, will eliminate that child from needing the disc ever again, making more scratches, or ruining yet another disc.
The ONLY down side to these, if you want to call it that, and only if you have high hopes of getting $400 performance out of a $20 unit, is its not all that fast when you try to move large amounts of files all at once. It tops off at 365kbs according to GT when downloading games off their service to the "pig" as we like to call them, for its kinda what they look like. So all my huge file moves I did from my pc to it I did mostly during the night when I was sleeping, other then that, I have yet to have any problems at all, no computer locking, it freezes for a split second for they drives shut off after 15 minutes of inactivity, once up to speed, "my computer" folder then shows all my drives. As for heat I tested this with IDENTICAL drives. One WD 250 in the pig, and another sitting outside my case as I was transferring files from it to the other 250 in the pig, and they were BOTH super hot, and both near the same temps, in the same places. Most people who bitch about the pigs getting hot dont understand or know that their hard drive in their case since that they cant touch it is as hot, but since the pig is like one huge aluminum heat sink, they can touch it and go, ooooo this is bad, its hot 😛 But unlike a pc, if these are not being used by anyone they shut down, which means unlike a pc, they have cool down periods which can extend the life of the drives because they are not running the whole time they are on like they would be from the time you turned on your computer till the time you turned it off.
So me personally I would take the reviews of the other people with a grain of salt and think about where and what kind of person that person is who said this thing is junk as far as their skills, what high hopes they had, and so forth for I wish I had bought these a lot sooner now that finding a IDE hdd is pretty hard. I have some sata to IDE adapters I plan on trying at some point and seeing if I can use an adapter so I can put in SATA drives into one of these. But feel free anyone to ask me anything about them, I been through and have used them for pretty much everything. I have 2 500gig segates in one, 2 matching 250 wd unitis in another, one 250gig wd and a 200 gig seagate in another one.
seanbigdealer
Member
Showing : $27.95 now, which is still interesting..
SalsaShark
Junior Member
Have you tried this out yet?
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