ADS Tech NAS Drive Kit (Mac and PC) | 
| Brand: ADS Tech
Buy New: $84.99
New (1) Used (2) from $74.99
Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 33103
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 8.7 x 4.7
MPN: NAS-806-EF
Model: NAS-806-EF
UPC: 757887806132
EAN: 0757887806132
ASIN: B000A8P2S2
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Easily share photos, music or video over a network | | • | Instantly add network storage | | • | P2P BitTorrent Client | | • | Web-based management for easy configuration | | • | FTP Server and Web Server |
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Product Description
The ADS NAS Drive Kit enables you to choose the Hard Drive size that meets your requirements. You install your hard drive, connect to your network and you instantly have a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device.Adding the NAS Drive Kit to an Ethernet-based home or office network allows users to share files you download from the internet, music, photos or video. Gain "always-on" access to data, regardless of whether or not other computers on the network are active. Easily add additional external storage to the network. No need to open the PC.The NAS Drive Kit provides very simple installation and setup with no need for user configuration or knowledge of IP addresses. An auto-discovery feature automatically adds the NAS Drive Kit device to all attached clients upon connection to the network. Easy to read LED's display status such as: Power On, LAN Activity and Drive Activity.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 I sure love mine! February 10, 2008
L. Miller (Colorado)
For us this has been a most useful addition to our home network. It allows our Win2K systems to make use of a higher density drive and offload a lot of files for intermediate storage. Because while it certainly is slower than a local hard drive, or an expensive fast file server, it's infinitely faster and more convenient than a stack of burned CD's. (It's a good idea to still make the CD's, for backup.)
NB: It is a computer, not a peripheral. It is the bare minimum computer needed to run a file server in a Linux or Linux-like system. While they made some design decisions I wish they'd done differently (in particular, choosing the 10Mbps interface, and not including a battery-backed clock), I will trade those off because it truly is a bargain.
Since it is a computer, it should be allowed to shut itself down. Just hold in the button for a second or three, until the power light starts to flash, and it will take it from there. And remember, at least if you care, to reset the system clock when you've had it off. I turn mine off every night. Never had a problem.
Each of our computers has it set up as a mapped networked drive. They reliably connect every time. If there's been no activity for a little while, the My Computer connection may show a red x, but that doesn't mean it isn't available. It's asleep, ready to awake as soon as asked. I wonder whether this could possibly be what people mean when they say it loses a connection?
My kill-a-watt meter indicates no more than 15 watts power usage, max - so it is again a bargain in electricity. Low enough to run it guilt-free when any other system is on. And being able to limit connections to certain MAC addresses (MAC filtering) gives a welcome additional degree of security.
I highly recommend this system! I'm certain it helps to know a bit about Linux and Samba and networking before you start, but there are many references online if you don't, and once set up it runs effortlessly.
works like a champ January 14, 2008
Dave (Pa)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Best $50.00 I ever spent. Is a little slower than I would have liked, but it will push over 2 gig in ten minutes. Would recomend to anyone tired of playing with usb junk.
Decent Option for file sharing November 21, 2007
Christopher Chandler (Keene Nh)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Took a while to load all of my data on this device but when I was done it was a set it and forget it appliance. In terms of a NAS even the more expensive western digital models lock up on occasion. I've had this model for about a month and have only rebooted it once. Built in ftp and website have come in rather handy as well. Uses way less power than my pc's that were setup for file sharing and left turned on 24/7. All in all it was a great product for the price
 In a typical "me too" fashion, I'm an idiot July 5, 2007
D. Roberts (Rhode Island, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I should have read these reviews *before* buying two of them, but luckily, I'm within the return period. THEY ARE GOING BACK!
They randomly disappear, data gets corrupted...and to think I got these as a replacement for the infamous "toaster". Does anyone make a NAS that works?????
Don't waste your time with these lemons.
OK, I'm an idiot January 14, 2007
Brian A. Egge (Sydney, Australia)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
After reading reviews of various NAS drive kits, I decided to purchase this on and plug a 250 GB drive in.
First off, I knew that it only had a 10 Mbit Ethernet connection. It doesn't seem that long ago that I had a 10Mbit LAN at home, and I don't remember it being all that slow. (I've since remembered that I wasn't transferring very large files on that LAN). Had I not been an idiot, I would have done the math and figured out how slow the router is really going to be. The CPU and the hard drive do not seem to be the major bottleneck, but rather the Ethernet port. True, if it had a 100 Mbit port, the CPU would probably be the bottleneck. However, there are some efficient hardware components which can seriously reduce the load on the CPU, so I think the 170 MHz processor might be able to handle a faster network connection.
Considering a 10 Mbit connection, the most data which can be transfered in one direction is about 1.2 MBytes per second. With smaller files, you won't get the maximum transfer speed. Lets say on average, you get 1 MBytes per second. That means you can transfer 60 MB per minute, or 3.6 GB per hour.
** It would take a solid three days to fill the 250 GB hard drive, and just as long to get your data back **
I have no idea how 'Fabian Lamaestra' was calculating his write speeds at 3700 mbs. Unless he'd calculating the speed which the drive can format itself, there is no way you can get more than 10 mbs over the Ethernet connection.
This device isn't going to work at all if your editing movies, and need the extra storage. However, I'm a patient guy, so I could see using this as a sort of online backup. It's cheaper than any Internet site, and the speed is faster than if it went over the Internet (at least for me).
So, if even if I can live with the slow speed and the fan noise, I can't live with the instability.
The device frequently locks up for no apparent reason. I can hold the power button down all day and it won't reset. I have to unplug the unit and then let it reboot.
After it reboots, it doesn't automatically sync the time. It can't even guess what the time it. It goes back to thinking it's 1999.
The P2P function seems novel, but I wouldn't touch it seeing how flaky and under powered the rest of the system is.
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