Netgear NG-MS2000 Stora Network Attached Storage External USB Hard Drive Enclosure

I was going to shell out for a full blown ReadyNas, until this came along. For less than 50 notes too. The best word to describe this product is EASY
Easy to setup/install
Easy to create users
Easy to upload files to either by network neighbourhood or using the Mystora interface - Java needed
Easy for other users to store their stuff on your Stora.
Easy to create albums for your photos
Easy to store all your music
Easy to store any other data (securely)
Easy to store movies
Easy to choose who gets access to anything you wish to share
Easy to then watch movies via the interface
Easy to listen to music via the interface
Easy to look at photo albums, again, via the interface

I could go on and explain about how I can also access it remotely with my Iphone etc

The cons

It doesn't come with hard drives Ummm that's it I think.

Back to the pros

Look at the price, I guess that's why it has no hard drives. My advice would be to buy two drives asap and then your Stora will self setup with RAID. For those that aren't sure what that means basically one drive will mirror the other, thus saving your data/music/photo/videos twice. If one of the drives should fail then your data has a chance of being saved.

It has stuff on it to perform backups, I've not used this yet but I will.

I hope this helps anyone who is in the same situation as me I needed to store photos, share with other family members. I wanted to look at their pictures and download them to my pc. I wanted a central place to store my Itunes. Most of all I wanted my kids to be able to do stuff safely with my approval.

can I use this as a server for the ps3 or several ps3's , so i can watch video's from it ?

This is an excellent device. As long as you fully patch it up to date when you turn it on, you will be happy with the features. You can set up your own file structure, and share your media (Videos\Photo's\Music) over your network to stream them to devices such as PS3. With the lates software you can even set your Stora to turn itself off and on to suits your needs and save energy, and use it for torrent downloads. Almost silent when turned on. Very easy to setup out of the box, and you can easily setup your music on a share them have it located by your itunes library! All in all, an excellent product and for the price and absolute bagain!

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