Product Description Storage Central automatically stores and duplicates your important digital content such as music, games, photos, and more. Storage Central ensures that no one can access your files but you and delivers the utmost privacy of your valuable data content. With Storage Central, you can expand outgrown storage volumes, and add more capacity whenever you need it?instantly and easily. Storage Central makes real-time copies of your valuable data, ensuring maximum protection against data loss. Additionally, storage can be expanded indefinitely, keeping pace with all your future storage needs. SmartSync Pro advanced backup software is included. With Storage Central you can add the capacity you need to store, share and back up your valuable digital content?-music, games, photos, videos, and office documents - instantly, easily, and securely, all with the simplicity of your C:drive. Storage Central is easy to setup and install. Just slide in one or two 3.5" IDE disk drives of any capacity; connect Storage Central to any wired or wireless router or switch from any vendor, then configure with Smart Wizard install assistant. Now you're ready to access files from any PC on your network, as a simple letter drive. IDE or PATA drives are sold separately.
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The NETGEAR SC101 Storage Central offers:
An easy and inexpensive way to share hard drive space over a network.
Great expandability with room for two hard drives.
A 10/100 Mbps Ethernet port for fast data transfers.
Options for drive mirroring and spanning.
Included backup software.
The NETGEAR SC101 Storage Central is an expandable storage system that allows shared access by all computers on your network. With space for two IDE hard drives, you can set the device up to mirror each other so you have a backup of all your files in case either one fails.
There is room for two hard drives inside the SC101. View larger.
Excellent Value and Easy Setup Unlike other network-attached storage (NAS) devices, the SC101 does not come with any drives but requires you to purchase your own. This allows for considerable cost savings. Opening up the SC101 only requires turning a latch that can be done with a quarter; no tools are needed. Attach the power connectors and IDE cables, set the jumpers, and slide the drive into place, and that's it.
After the hard drives are installed, plug the device in, attach it to the network, and install the included software. The software guides you through setup step by step. When everything is ready to go, it looks like a new hard drive has been installed on your PC and you use it just as you would any other hard drive. Backup software is included for users who don't already have their own preferred software. Please note that the SC101 is only compatible with Windows machines and won't work with Macs or Linux.
Outstanding Performance with Various Storage Options The SC101 connects to your network via a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet connection for fast data transfers. When you connect two drives to the device, you have the option of having them "mirrored" or "spanned." Mirrored storage lets you keep two copies of every file, one on each drive, so that everything is backed up in case of drive failure. When two drives are set to span, they appear as one volume so they are easy to work with and the device will automatically find your data across both drives.
The front panel has three LEDs to let you know the status of the power, hard disk and network at a glance. The NETGEAR SC101 Storage Central is backed by a 1-year warranty.
What's in the Box SC101 Storage Central, resource CD, power adapter, Ethernet cable, installation guide, SmartSync Pro Backup Software CD, and warranty/support information card.
Find something betterOctober 31, 2008 At first, I thought I was buying a low cost, low engergy network storage drive. Yes, it is low cost and it does consume less energy than my old tower computer I was using for network storage. However, now that I have it set up and running, this is not what I wanted.
First, you need to install a device driver on every computer that will access this device. This is insane! Your computer will not see this as simply network storage without the device driver.
Second, if you have pre-loaded hard drives - forget it - the driver needs to reformat each drive, so all you material is lost! Make sure you back everything up first.
Last - it's slow! Access time is very slow. I was running a WinXP machine as my network storage, and even with the operating system running in the background, that computer had much faster access to the data. I thought a dedicated unit would speed up transfer, but not with this device.
Look for a faster unit, pay some additional money. I'm disappointed.
Garbage. Shame on NetGear!October 8, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Been using the SC101 off and on since May of 2008 and all I can say is - NOT WORTH IT! I saw the negative reviews but bought anyway since it was reasonably priced. Even with a Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm drive with 16mb cache it is still very slow. However, thats not the real issue here. Serious and frustrating problem is it will routinely disappear from the network without rhyme or reason. Has dropped out of sight even after just using it and going back to save a document. The only thing that will bring it back is always a reboot of the router, and sometimes a reboot of the PC also needed. Its always the router first, that usually does it. If not the PC needs to be rebooted also and it will appear again. I downloaded twice the latest firmware as the web site recommended but to no avail. NetGear has no solution. Shame on NetGear for releasing this device.
Basic NASOctober 5, 2008 Product works as advertised, easy to setup! It only has a 10/100 MB connection and an IDE interface so don't expect any high speed transfers. I installed two 500GB WD drives and backed up 250GB of data over a two day period without any problems. Finding this product may prove difficult becuase its almost at its end of life and not many stores carry it. I originally ordered mine from Amazon but the seller couldn't fulfill by order which worked out because Circuit City had it on clearance for $24.99.
What a piece of junkOctober 4, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I picked one of these up advertised as a NAS. Really it is not networked attached storage at all. In order to access the drives you need to install software onto Windows XP or higher machines. It does not work with OSX or any other system. Even then it rarely works. My Windows machine looses the connection to the F drive constantly. This was going to be the drive I download files too and it gets frustrating when you are halfway through a 4GB ISO file and the drive stops working and you either have to wait for it to start working again to resume or you have to start all over.
The SD101 is good for only holding papers in placeSeptember 23, 2008 Purchased this with great hopes, but after loosing data (broken mirror), access requiring a Windows PC, proprietary disk format, and a software upgraded that literally Blue Screen of Deathed my computer I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. Do not buy this product!
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