IOCell NetDisk 351UNE: But Will it Stream Media?

[admin]

My past experience with network attached storage (NAS) was years ago, we called it the toaster and it held two drives with built-in redundancy; RAID 1. Mirrored drives gave my home network nicely backed-up storage via Ethernet. After assigning it an IP and mapping a drive letter to my PC I had access to Ethernet stored files. The NAS drive was great for backing up family pictures and an MP3 library. But did it stream? Forget about it! To any audio/video enthusiast affordable NAS was a major fail. The devices were expensive, complicated and slow. But that was almost ten years ago, surely the situation has improved since then – and it has. Nowadays there are several options including NetDisk proprietary NDAS system aimed at the small, consumer-grade home network admin.


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[BoredSysAdmin]

Clint, this is a bit confusing... As you said the device doesn't offer 3rd party connectivity (without it's client installed) - aka no UPNP and no DLNA by itself...
So - how it's different from any usb storage? (other than the fact Ethernet cable could be much longer)

[Wayde Robson]

how it's different from any usb storage? (other than the fact Ethernet cable could be much longer)

It can be used as a USB storage device. But it's primary strength is as an Ethernet storage. When it's on, attached to your network and you have the client software installed - it's used as a drive on your computer. Communication to that drive will be much faster than USB - but slower than SATA.

[BoredSysAdmin]

It can be used as a USB storage device. But it's primary strength is as an Ethernet storage. When it's on, attached to your network and you have the client software installed - it's used as a drive on your computer. Communication to that drive will be much faster than USB - but slower than SATA.

faster than usb 2 - true that...