Comments on: The Baddest A$$ External Hard Drive Enclosure

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:41:24 +0000

After working with this device for a while, I have now decided its best application is a desktop decoration after being modded to look like a pig.

Software is lousy, over-heats, is slow and to top it off has a habit of disapearing off my network.

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:35:54 +0000

I’ve been in IT for near 30 years and this is thing is a nightmare. Stability issues, inability to connect, no compatibility with Linux, Mac or Unix. It only takes PIO 6 drives (which you have to dig through the fine print to find out) and absolute sloppy utilities interface. I have no idea what the engineers were smoking when they designed this thing but they definitely created a monster. I can not believe Netgear continues its slide into super junk consumer products with this garbage.

By: Glenn D.

Glenn D. — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:29:19 +0000

This product defines P.o.S.
Bad execution of a poor design.
To add to the misery of ownership, Netgear tech support was incompetent – at best.

Dig a little deeper in Google to find out how crappy this little sh*tbox turned out for other uninformed buyers.

By: April Mccolly

April Mccolly — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 12:35:48 +0000

I need a external hard drive I would like to be under a $100 I had purchased a WD passport but it wont work on one of my computers that had ME and now has xp with fat32 can you tell me what hard drive that I can move from computer to computer for a fat32 operating system Thanks

By: Wolvereen

Wolvereen — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:00:13 +0000

What’s up with it being Windows only though?

No LInux or MAC support? If its on a network, I want it to support everything…

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:27:51 +0000

My big concern would be Are these units NTSF compatable & Can they be configured to work with an already loaded hard drive?
as most I see are only FAT 32 & want to do a fresh format on an empty drive.

As I currently have 2 120G maxtor drives formated to NTFS with no OS that I am using as network drives, I am looking for a solution that will allow me to simply pop in these drives & configure for network use to plug into my router.

By: redundant

redundant — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:53:49 +0000

Heres a question, with all the talk about mirroring your work, music, files, whatever it is that “we” do…. once the NEW technology hits mid summer I am NOT gonna dump 2 large on a new setup right now because the new technology will be making its debut… back to the fact… with said new technology, and whats sure to be a 74 or 150KB Raptor Drive… are we gonna be able to daisy chain these NAS enclosures to pile on the black hole of space that is video, and audio? I.E. 500GB sounds like a LOT… until you start saving 12 Megapixel Photos, TV SHOWS, TONS OF SONGS, etc… sounding like you wanna start at a TB and go from there doesn’t it….. so long winded question in one simple sentence. DAISY CHAIN or NO. THANKS!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:35:57 +0000

not recommend, only compatible with Microsoft Windows. not compatible with other OS (mac, unix, linux)