Customer Reviews

Klegg Netdisk Mega Enlc

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This is the third one I have purchased and am satisfied. Two are used on the network to allow access to data from any PC and in a Raid config for safety.

I have had a Netdisk on my home network for the past 4 years (may have been longer, cant remember), and I bought a 250gb NDAS directly from Ximeta. It has been a great storage solution for my home networking needs. Although I realize that PATA is going the way of the dinosaur, as long as you arent streaming HD video or graphic intensive files, I think it makes a great solution for your storage needs. Its a VERY easy setup, and since PATA (EIDE, IDE - all the same) drives are cheaper now, and the enclosure is retailing for $25, its worth the investment (IMHO). I am currently using my drive for music files, and LIBRONIX by Logos Software, and have had good experiences with it. I am buying a new enclosure and drive because the old one has failed, but I am positive that its failure had nothing to do with the Netdisk system.
One thing I would definately suggest is that you bookmark the website for XIMETA so that you can periodically check for firmware / software updates, as the software does not do so on its own.
Is it PERFECT? No. It does however do a good job for the price.

The prime benefit of this technology is to use a storage device as a poor man's SAN to build up a network. One limitation of (Windows IIS)web servers is that the web site runs in a local system account which by default has no network access. With this technology you can build an expandable web site since the drive appears like a local system hard drive, and you can share the drive with multiple web servers. I do hope this company can get their gigabit model to market, then it could really take off. One suggestion: Use the USB interface to format the hard drive first. I am running one NDAS drive with two virtual servers and it appears like a local drive on each server as a storage pool.

i bought Two 250GB hook them both to a D-link router which im using as a hub to our linksys Wireless-G Router. The D-link and the 2 DNAS Drives are in my shop along with an old desk top and a new notebook i can get them to run movies and music just fine off those two cause they are hard wired to the network, but once i go into the house i try to play a movie over my 802/11g from our media center notebook on our flat screen it becomes choppy. not sure if its the product or if its the way my network is set up. it diffently wont play over 802.11b. A good thing about this product is that it was super easy to hook-up and install just wish i could get it to play on the big screen smoothly.

Installation was smooth, but once this thing was on the network, access was intermittent and too slow to be usable for any purpose. Could have been our router but we have a pretty standard Dlink router, nothing unusual. I had heard these were fast enough to be a music server but that was not our experience. Another disadvantage once we set up -- Netdisk doesn't allow Windows hibernation because of potential problems communicating with the disk.

One advantage (assuming you could overcome the issues): Netdisk will accommodate your drive the way it is; i.e. doesn't require a reformat or anything.

I think this is a promising technology -- a poor man's NAS. So I root for it to succeed but it didn't work for us.

TB