Maxtor Fusion 500 GB NAS Personal Web Server with Gigabit Ethernet

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12 x 17 x 10 inches ; 7.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000GBPFPS
• Item model number: B01Q500
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

With the Maxtor Fusion 500GB Personal Web Server, you can organize, personalize and safely share your Digital life. Easily organize your digital content and communications, with a simple and self-expressive way to share Video your life with friends, family and colleagues. Plug your Maxtor Fusion into a Network Router and organize a household's worth of video, music, photos and documents easily. Customize your content and create unique content for multiple audiences -- create themes like a family picnic or your band's first gig. Share things privately, publicly or even link to your blog to share the total digital experience of your life.

Included Accessories: Maxtor Fusion hard drive, power adapter, Ethernet cable, install CD, setup and user's guides

Product Description

Maxtor Fusion 500GB Personal Web Server - organize and personalize all your digital photos, videos, music and documents and share your experiences with family, friends and colleagues either privately or publicly in a secure environment. While providing one central safe location for all your digital content, Maxtor Fusion's simple web-based interface makes blending and assembling all types of files easy, supports both Windows and Mac, and enables quick remote access to all your content from anywhere, anytime. The Gigabit Ethernet connection to your network router enables fast access and two USB ports are provided for easy storage expansion with additional hard drives.PRODUCT FEATURES:Use the easy web-based environment to group together different types of media such as photos, movies, music or more;Easily organize your files with tags, descriptors and folders;Create unique combinations of photos and videos of the same event for different people;Microlink your content to blogs, auctions, and social networking sites;Host your completed albums - without uploading to an online service;Have a secure environment for private and public sharing;Easily and safely share via simple email invitations sent to your audience, or set up passwords for individual access;Guarantee remote access to all your digital content from anywhere, anytime;Aggregate all your content from multiple computers on a network to one place.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Delivers what it promises, July 5, 2006

By	Micah B. Kleit (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought the Fusion Drive as soon as it was available from JR. I'm really impressed with the ease of set up, the utility of the drive and software, and all around look of the drive. The instructions are clear and the setup wizard takes you through how to set up a dynamic dns, how to set up your router, and all of the other details that would usually require some real technical know how. The important thing is to follow the instructions closely.

One very important think to keep in mind when setting up the drive: if you have VOiP, make sure the internet phone device is hooked up to your router; usually companies ask you to hook the phone to your cable modem, and then your router to the phone; this makes port forwarding unusable. So other than this minor reconfiguring of your internet connection, everything works seamlessly.

I imagine the interface and the look (and the choices of looks) will develop over time, but I have to say I've been very impressed with how well everything has been working (I've tried out the software from home from a remote location), and most important, how stable everything is. I'm doing everything from a Mac, and I always worry if enought testing has been done to ensure Mac compatibility, and so far, everything's been fine. I also like the fact that Maxtor has included USB 2.0 ports for future expansion. It's a steep price, but I recomment this drive to everyone in the market for a NAS drive.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Seagate Defective Products, June 4, 2009

By	Shayne (Jersey City, NJ) - See all my reviews

I will never buy a Seagate product again.
The software is horrific. Once everything was setup, the drive failed out losing all the data that was copied over.
I have nothing nice to say about this company(Seagate) and Philips.
Both seem to rip off consumers regularly.

11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fusion software is horrible. Better to just buy an add-on drive., July 25, 2006

By	G. Gough (Brentwood, TN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The Fusion installation CD didn't detect the drive until I turned off my Windows Firewall. Of course, this wasn't mentioned anywhere in the setup guide. Don't try to load a directory with more than a few high resolution (5 megapixel or more) photos, or it will take FOREVER to generate the thumbnails. The drag-and-drop popup Java applet file import is very slow to import (even over Gigabit ethernet), and dropping a folder into it doesn't create the folder with the files underneath it; instead, it just puts all the files into the root directory. VERY DISAPPOINTED in what had the potential to be a useful product. If you have 1-2 Megapixel photos or small documents, in just a few small directories, maybe this will work for you, but for $700? You can do better.