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We were also disappointed that we couldn't back up external hard drives. With prices going down, and everybody having high-speed LAN Ethernet at home the market is slowly adapting and targeting NAS devices at a hard to convince and very money attentive consumer. Flipping to the underside, a hatch is discovered, covering the NS's power supply — which is simply an external adapter that's been fitted inside, removable presumably to cut down on heat generation. Unfortunately, it's let down by a poor set-up process and an odd plug-in system. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read. Don't show this again.

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Promise SmartStor NS review: We were also disappointed that we couldn't back up external hard drives. Drive bays can't be locked individually, but you can lock the drive bay door to keep out prying hands.

The front is spartan, featuring a swing out lockable door giving access to the drive trays, blue diagnostic lights for hard drive and network activity as well as power, and a one touch backup button.

Promise claims the rails prevent smattstor vibration, but we haven't noticed this problem on other NAS devices. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. If you looked at a website nine years ago, it probably looked like this, with horizontal lines and frames.

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Unfortunately, we often found ourselves resorting to the Web interface to make even basic changes. SmartNAVI allows you to set up the drive's volumes, configure basic media and download functions, manage user settings and set quotas, as well as share folders.

The DLNA Digital Living Network Alliance server and the download functions, for instance, are both disabled by default and must be enabled from within the plug-in manager, which is only available through the Web interface. Here are some top budget truly We delete comments that violate our policywhich we encourage you to read. The unit also beeps annoyingly until SmartNAVI finishes setting up, the device is clearly unable to tell a new set of drives from a failed array. Confusing terminology used in the UI.

Screwing drives into the rails can be difficult and inserting and removing the drives isn't easy either; we would have preferred metal trays instead. Some things changed over these years, our demand for massive volume storage capacity has increased, with the help of WiFi and Ethernet in general in our homes we started evolving in our lifestyle and thus requirements.

The only physical button on the SmartStor's front panel initiates the scheduled Snapshot one-touch backup function, which provides up to four restore points on a specified volume. Promise's NAS device for homes and small businesses is great as a central storage device, thanks to fast throughput speeds.

Promise SmartStor NS4600 NAS device

It can be used on either Windows PCs or Macs. The Bad Power button on back. This is either going to set you up as RAID 0 or 5, but it never mentions this, making for some confusing moments.

SmartNAVI also establishes a trend that's continued into the web UI — that is, Promise is ns460 to use "friendly" terms instead of real world terms, and so users are never really sure what they're getting. This small and speedy portable drive will come in handy for anyone who needs to carry Find the best mattress in April 14, 3: Our favorite password managers will be your Bottom Line Promise's NAS device for homes and small businesses is great as a central storage device, thanks to fast throughput speeds.

Don't show this again. The Good Attractive little unit. With prices going down, and everybody having high-speed LAN Ethernet at home the market is slowly adapting and targeting NAS devices at a hard to convince and very money attentive consumer. It's not that useful though, and can't be resized. Unfortunately, it's let down by a poor set-up process and an odd plug-in system.

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The Web interface has an ms4600 design, but it at least provides the options that are required to get the NAS device fully functional. When the Area 51 'raid' went viral, one small town got turned upside down. A couple of years ago NAS storage units where to be found only in the enterprise and corporate environments as those solutions where not only expensive but also required an Ethernet infrastructure and a system administrator that could configure it.

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