Linksys Storage Link for USB 2.0 Disk Drives NSLU2
Now you can quickly and easily add gigabytes of storage space onto your network with the Network Storage Link from Linksys. This tiny network appliance connects USB 2.0 hard drives directly to your Ethernet network. You can connect up to two stand-alone USB disk drives of any size, and access them from anywhere on your network. You can even plug a USB flash disk into the Network Storage Link, for a convenient way of accessing your portable data files. The Network Storage Link can also be set up so that your storage devices are accessible from the Internet - files can be easily downloaded via your web browser. Your files can be available publicly, or create password-protected accounts for authorized users.Installation of the Network Storage Link is simple - just plug it directly into your 10/100 Ethernet network, and attach your USB 2.0 hard drives or flash disk. It can self-configure to your network via DHCP or you can use the built-in utility to manually configure it. With the speedy USB 2.0 interface, you'll get quick response times with even your largest files.The Network Storage Link features built-in disk utilities, accessible through your web browser. You can format new disk drives, and scan drives for errors. The built-in backup program lets you schedule full, incremental, or synchronization backups of your network drives to the Network Storage Link, or vice versa. It will even send you an email message when a hard drive gets nearly full, completely full, or has an error.The Network Storage Link is a fast, simple, flexible and economical way to add storage to your network.
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Linksys Storage Link for USB 2.0 Disk Drives NSLU2 Reviews
It's a nice little thing for your home network but I feel it's a little bit slow. I guess it's a good back up solution but not a good daily basis kind of drive.
Don't waist the time on this device. I agree with the other one star reviewer, accept my through put has reached between 2-10Mbits.
Two of the computers are running Windows XP and the other one is running Windows Vista. I have 3 computers that share the hard drive I have connected to the device. This product is great. This transfer speed is fast enough for what I am doing. I would recommend this to anyone who needs to share a hard drive at home. I did install the latest firmware. It has been running for a couple of weeks and works perfect. In just a few minutes I had this connected to my home network and sharing my WD250 hard drive.
My expectations for the NSLU2 were fairly low, be able to access a USB external drive on my internal network. The problem arose when I changed the default IP address (this feature is supported). They could not discern the problem and we eventually reloaded the firmware.
We were back to square one but the device works at the default settings. After changing the IP address I could not access nor "see" the device, even after disabling my firewall. The device came up using the supplied software CD.
Leave the settings alone and you should be fine. No problem. I called Linksys support and spent over three hours on the phone with them to no avail.
The device works well in this regard as long as you accept that access is somewhat slow when running at b/g wireless network speeds.
Very nice device. Don't expect to start copying multi gigabyte size files at high speeds. Slient and cool running, it really does allow you to share USB drives on the network. But for small files or for streaming music, it works great. The only thing is that this device is very slow.
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