Netgear 'Stora' Brings NAS to the Masses Comments

bring on the review!

Looks kinda large for a 2-bay device, My D-Link 323 is much smaller. No USB socket? (e.g. for initial load or subsequent expansion).

My bad, it does have a USB port!

Was thinking, it would be nice if there was a bare-bones version, then you could stuff 2 x 1.5Tb or 2 x 2Tb drives in it without having to pay for the stock 1Tb drive.

Does that price include the 1TB drive? Want one.

@needlegun: lol how can you tell the size of it compared to anything else with nothing else in the picture as reference!!!!

But yeah hope its not too big, i think i want one then I will decide later the best way to make use of it, salivating 'til review.

This just looks the same as the WD My Book World Edition II which comes with 2TB and all the same features for the same price.

Do you know whether Netgear intend to sell it sans drives?

Coooool! me want...just need to free up a port on the router.

Could this be used with the squeezebox duet without needing a PC? And a question on the squeezebox duet - if you do need to run the squeezebox server software - does the remote control provide control over the local pc it is running on? What I am thinking of is running it on a nettop ion vesa mounted pc and providing the link to the hifi direct from the nettop.

4 drive version, yes please.

Very good value though :)

I would be very amused if a photo frame was synchronised and one's backup contained some images that were perhaps not suitable for the family living room - and the amusingly inevitable happened...

I'm with Gormand on this one. The 2TB Western Digital My Book World Edition II, at £212 online, and I think all the same features looks the more attractive option well... because it looks much more attractive. Btw, where is the review for the WD. Nothing like the assurance of a Trusted Review before a purchase, esp since you've already reviewed the WD Caviar Green HDD.

I've never gone for networked storage because
a) I can't wait aaaages to manage my larger files over a slow network connection
b) Gigabit ethernet equipment is expensive when you're upgrading a full network.

Does anyone know of a NAS device that connect via USB2 or Firewire800 to a close computer, whilst maintaining it's presence on the network (ie for slow video streaming duties) at the same time?

This is where the money's going. Simple to use, effective central storage for home networks. May not be sexy, but if it's simple to use, it doesn't need to be.
Now you just need a 4 port switch and a wireless adapter / router and it's complete.

@kdot - guessing really from the space between the drives that looks to be about 1.5 x the drive height, plus the space between the edge of the drive and the case.

@GherkinG - performance really isn't that bad over gigabit, plus there's the USB port for the initial 'load' if you prefer. Nice thing is you can site the NAS drive away from your Mac/PC. My D-Link NAS is in the loft. My logic is that if someone breaks in and steals my computer, they hopefully won't take the time to go up in the loft searching for the NAS, so my data is safe which is the important thing.

My previous experience with the WD Mybook drives will not let you access any music or movie files from outside of your home network.

Any ideas if Netgear will allow remote access to these kinds of files?

If it runs at a similar speed to the ReadNAS Duo, the networking will be at least as fast as any USB connected drive at around 22MB/sec