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Netgear SC101 Storage Central

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Technical Details

  • Provides fail-safe disk storage that's easy to share for home and small business
  • Accommodates 2 IDE drives, so network users can easily share or back-up music, photos, videos, data files
  • Creates duplicate copies of your files automatically
  • Install 1 or 2 IDE* Drives of any capacity from 80GB to 800GB
  • Offers Z-SAN technology for fast, block-level access
  • Ensures maximum protection against data loss via mirrored volumes
  • Keeps pace with your future needs by supporting additional Storage Central systems
  • Connects to router via Ethernet port
  • Easily access files through letter drive in 'My Computer'
  • Mirroring & Spanning capabilities to protect data
  • Smart Wizard" set-up & configuration
  • Easy, intuitive user interface
  • *IDE disk drives not included
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  • Item Weight: 1.4 Kg
  • Boxed-product Weight: 2.3 Kg
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  • Item model number: SC101
  • ASIN: B000AL5H7A
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 18 Sep 2005
  • Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 32,075 in Electronics & Photo (See Bestsellers in Electronics & Photo)

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Manufacturer's Description
Network Storage
With the NETGEAR Storage Central SC101, you can plug in up to 2 IDE drives of any size and create a central storage space for all your music, video, photos, games, and files. These files and media resources are then easily accessible by all the computers on your home or small office network as a simple letter drive, from 'My Computer'. You can start with as little as 80 GB and upgrade to 800 GB or more as required. Never worry about losing your most valuable files with advanced back-up features. Keep your personal files private from other network users if desired by placing them in secure, password-protected folders. Different drives can be created for different purposes or users on the network. You can even link multiple Storage Centrals together for additional storage capacity.

Applications for Use
Do you own a digital camera or camcorder and have lots of photos and home movies that you would like to back-up and store securely? The SC101 enables you to store and back-up precious digital photos and home movies of weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and other special occasions and create a drive to share your memorable family moments to all the computers on your home network. Do you have private financial information or commercial files that you would like to store and back up? The SC101 includes back-up software, allowing you to safeguard any valuable files by keeping real-time duplicate copies, automatically and effortlessly. Is your computer or laptop slowing down because it is weighed down with lots of files, digital music, photos and video? Transfer all this data on to an SC101 and give your computer or laptop a new lease of life!

SC101 Storage Central is easy to setup and install. Just slide in one or two 3.5 IDE disk drives of any capacity. Connect Storage Central to any wired or wireless router or switch from any vendor, then configure with NETGEAR's Smart Wizard install assistant. Now you're ready to access files from any PC on your network, from a simple letter drive in 'My Computer'. The user interface is also intuitive.

Value For Money
NETGEAR's SC101 Storage Central device brings business enterprise storage technology to the home and small business at an affordable price point. The SC101 enables users to have a True Storage Area Network for their home networks; shareable, expandable, available, failsafe and easily accessible.

Product Description
The NETGEAR SC101 Storage Central is ideal for homes and small businesses that wish to affordably and easily store and back-up their files, music, videos, photos and games in a networked location, where multiple computers can access it. Network Storage With the NETGEAR Storage Central SC101, you can plug in up to 2 IDE drives of any size and create a central storage space for all your music, video, photos, games, and files. These files and media resources are then easily accessible by all the computers on your home or small office network as a simple letter drive, from 'My Computer'. You can start with as little as 80 GB and upgrade to 800 GB or more as required. Never worry about losing your most valuable files with advanced back-up features. Keep your personal files private from other network users if desired by placing them in secure, password-protected folders. Different drives can be created for different purposes or users on the network. You can even link multiple Storage Centrals together for additional storage capacity. Applications for use Do you own a digital camera or camcorder and have lots of photos and home movies that you would like to back-up and store securely? The SC101 enables you to store and back-up precious digital photos and home movies of weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and other special occasions and create a drive to share your memorable family moments to all the computers on your home network. Do you have private financial information or commercial files that you would like to store and back up? The SC101 includes back-up software, allowing you to safeguard any valuable files by keeping real-time duplicate copies, automatically and effortlessly. Is your computer or laptop slowing down because it is weighed down with lots of files, digital music, photos and video? Transfer all this data on to an SC101 and give your computer or laptop a new lease of life! Easy to Use SC101 Storage Central is easy to setup and install.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Works well and I'm happy with it, 7 Mar 2006
By Neil (Herts, UK) - See all my reviews
Had some problems with an earlier version of the software, but now all is well & happy in SC101-land.

Make sure you use the latest software from the Netgear site.

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Some points of possible interest:-

Very easy install. I slotted in a pair of 250gb 7200rpm Seagate drives, followed the idiot-proof (worked for me!) instructions and it just worked

Requires a driver on each client but is then like a mapped drive

No Linux driver and sadly no plans according to Netgear (as at 3-3-06)

Really compact

External power supply – this may be a Good or a Bad Thing depending on your needs

Reasonably fast; nothing stunning – shame it’s not gigabit (rumours persist of such a thing in the future)

Very sensitive to power-on sequence (this caused some headaches to start with)

The software has gone through a few iterations but the latest version of the software seems to have fixed my problems

Fairly quiet but it lives in my garage rather than on my desk; the disk whine might be wearing after a while and there looks like no possibility for quiet-mounting the disks

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This rates four out of five. To get that last star it would need a gigabit connection and a Linux driver.

Bear in mind it’s a Fast Ethernet device and as such is restricted to an absolute maximum of 100 megabits per second. If for example you put loads pictures in just a few directories, and have thumbnails or filmstrip switched on, it will seem awfully sluggish. It’s really good for backup and/or as a media store.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars bit of a let down from a good company, 23 Oct 2006
By William Moffatt - See all my reviews
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The Netgear SC101 is a nice tidy, compact and aesthetically pleasing device, let down by some problems.

Bad:

1. no 64bit drivers; if your only machine is winXP 64bit then don't bother even trying it - they've said no drivers are available and they have no intention of writing them (I've had to share it from another machine). This is very disappointing from an otherwise reliable company.

2. annoying software, as mentioned by other reviewers; once it's set up it works fine, but if ever ever have to run their manager utility you know it's not going to be fun.

3. the mounted drive letter doesn't survive through a hibernation, and once it's lost the link the only way you can bring it back is a cold boot - the manager utility won't help you here, and will deny that a) there's anything wrong, and b) there's any drive to connect. This one is extremely irritating to me.

4. it seems very slow across a 100MB network; maybe my expectations are too high, but it's not that slow copying between two other machines on my network - that being said, it's set up in mirror mode, and whilst this shouldn't affect things, it could do.

5. I think I'd be happier with a fan inside - it does run hot (though I've had no problems with it yet, heat or otherwise).

Good:

1. it looks good

2. hardware was easy to set up and worked first time (software is not so easy).

3. I serve my music from it - it's been running for about 6 months now without a power cycle.

Conclusion:

I like it, but I'm not sure I'd buy it again; wait for SC102 (or whatever) - maybe they'll fix these problems; there certainly doesn't appear to be any competition to it worth mentioning though.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but could be better, 28 Jun 2006
I bought one a few weeks ago, and I have it working well as my main backup system. I have two 300GB drives installed in it, one acting as a mirror for the other. My main gripe is that the filesystem used on the SC101 is proprietary, so if the SC101 itself fails, any drives you have installed will be unreadable unless you buy another SC101. On the plus side, once you have done a backup, synchronising with any changes you have made is a quick affair using SmartSync - only the changes are copied. Installing the SC101 driver software was a bit of a nightmare however - for a good while the software did not see the drive across my network (a WAG54G 4-port switch), plus I got many installation errors (as another review on the internet warned me). However after a few attempts it installed ok, and updated the software over the internet. Although the manual says to turn on the netdisk before the computer, it does get automatically mounted (in WinXP) within a couple of minutes of turning on the SC101. In general I turn off the drive to save both the planet and the disks, as it gets pretty hot - although that is probably the heat generated by the hard drives themselves.
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