By: annon (13-Oct-07)      Experience with product: 1 Years

Strengths:	Inexpense
Weaknesses:	Works very slowly. Often doesn't work at all. I can't get this working with all my machines.

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Don't buy this. It is a waste of money. I spent months trying to get this to work properly. The software that comes with it is bad as well.

By: rjriley5000 (28-Jun-07)      Experience with product: 10 Months

Strengths:	With the addition of ready mix it makes a good door stop.
Weaknesses:	Not compatible with lots of other software and hard drives.

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Initially it appeared to work fine. I have been satisfied with other Netgear products but not the SC101 Storage Central. This product suffers from a multitude of hardware and software design deficiencies. I bought two of these things and they are garbage. I have a great deal of computer experience yet the SC101 cost me hundreds of man hours. They initially worked ok, but later started sucking lots of CPU time, 30-40% or more. Because of the delay in their causing problems I thought I had an infected computer. I spent months on and off trying to find the problem. I opened task manager hundreds of times trying to identify the problem. Then I started looking for an infection. I thought that the virus checker may have missed a new bug. I scanned with a multitude of software packages, and purchased a few. I did multiple scandisk and defrag. I did the same for the registry.I then started uninstalling applications, and when I got rid of the SC101 my problems went away!Hundreds of wasted man hours. Not just in excising the problem, but in lower productivity because of the poor computer response time. DO NOT BUY THE NETGEAR SC101 STORAGE CENTRAL - - It sucks, Netgear Sucks for foisting this garbage on us! It would be an understatement to say that I am pissed at Netgear. I will be boycotting ALL Netgear products for some time to express my displeasure over the $200 wasted on the product and the THOUSANDS of dollars in lost productivity!

By: annon (04-Apr-07)      Experience with product: 1 Day

Strengths:	N/A
Weaknesses:	N/A

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I'm running a mixed array of machines at home (Linux, Macs and one Windows machine). The Macs and the Linux machines were completely unable to connect to this box since it runs on a proprietary protocol that is only supported for Windows. If you want a NAS device that everybody can talk to, this is not it!

By: bitpilot (19-Feb-07)      Experience with product: 1 Week

Strengths:	gives you something to do with your old HDs
Weaknesses:	slow, unreliable backups

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Tried a 40GB backup using Retrospect 7.5 (which does a full compressed back to another PC on the network in about 5 hours), and the first run took 12 hours and failed because of a corrupt header; second attempt without compression ran at 54 MB/min, took about 9 hours but had 40 errors in verifying files (that hadn't changed between backup and verify - bad MD5 checksums on some data files for instance.) I wouldn't trust this with my data - as far as I'm concerned it's a boat anchor (ok, very small boats...)

By: petersen44 (16-Feb-07)      Experience with product: 5 Months

Strengths:	Easy setup, expandable, flexible.
Weaknesses:	Works only with newer IDE drives

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I've had this on my home network for about 5 months now with no problems - put just 1 300 gig drive in, still has room for another - Not using any RAID. Quiet - spins down when not in use, never gets hot. Data transfer is quite fast for my needs, but not so fast wireless-g. Excellent for sharing and backing-up data. Cannot beat it for the price.