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Netgear Storage Central SC101 NAS

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PCQ Bureau
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If you think that NAS devices are expensive, then check out

the Netgear Storage Central SC101. It's a compact, easy to use and cheap NAS,

costing just 10K. It uses standard parallel ATA drives for the job. The device

is compliant with drives of all sizes and makes, so, at any point if you are out

of space then simply replace the drive with a higher capacity one.

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Price: Rs.

10,000 (3 yrs warranty)



Key Specs: Raid

0, 1 support, client based application



Contact:

CyberStar Infocom,



Delhi




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Tel: 51629979.



Email id: deepak@cyberstarindia.com



RQS# E60 or SMS 130460

to 9811800601

The Netgear Storage Central is easy to configure and

access. Simply plug in two IDE drives and connect it to your network. You can

allot disk quotas that can be used by the user and thereby manage the allocation

of the disk in the storage. But prior to using this device, the client

application has to be installed on each of the Windows  machine. Presently,

the device does not support Linux. Along with the Raid 0 and 1 support you can

also use mirroring to secure your data.  The mirroring can be done between

two disks within the same central storage or within a network of multiple

storage central devices. It also has adequate privacy parameters to hide private

folders. Two different IP addresses are assigned to the different drives that

can be accessed over the network. We connected two dissimilar drives of 40GB and

70 GB for testing and found that these drives were detected as soon as you

connect to the network. We were able to use multiple data files such as audio

and video at the same time. It comes with a backup software that has a wide

number of options to choose from. You can set the data backup schedule for every

minute, day or month and even customize it for instances such as taking the

backup before you logoff/shutdown or at change of folder.

Bottom Line: The device is a good option for small

offices, given its features and performance.

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