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NETGEAR Storage Central Turbo SC101T

By on 10 July 2007

Netgear's NAS offering would be a whole lot better if it actually acted as a NAS. As it stands, it's no better than a crippled external hard drive.

Editor's rating:7.0 User rating:4
  • Good: Fast gigabit connection • Easy to use software
  • Bad: No Web UI • Very little configurability or features
  • Specs: 10/100/1000 Mbps (auto-sensing) Ethernet, RJ-45 • External NAS case • See more specifications
  • RRP: AU$349.00 • Where to buy? $317 at 1 store

Topics: netgear, storage central turbo, nas, storage, gigabit, sc101t, turbo

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Comments (12)

  • kd4kmz gave 10/10 on 15/10/2009 13:25

    • Good: Exceeded Expectations in Speed and multi file support
    • Bad: Noisy and remote computer setup takes a little bit of time

    I have been extrememly satisfied. We opened the same movie loaded as an MPEG, what I have noted it really comes down to what drive you use, I used som e different drives, but once I installed My Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1Tb drive, the Unit was a perfect match. I use it from teh ethernet and share throughout my house, we can all watch the same movie at the same time starting at different times with no Jitter. I would recemmend this product with the seagate drive of course to anyone

  • smcoffee gave 1/10 on 19/08/2009 07:06

    • Good: Could be installed
    • Bad: No support for Linux, MAC or any standard protocol

    Installed great once WinXP, but it made Windows go slower (additional network traffic, drops connections). Tried to uninstall -> Ended up with having to reinstall Windows. It messed up the harddrive detection etc... I would never use or install it again.

  • ScareCrow gave 3/10 on 18/08/2009 19:09

    • Good: Easy to set up,
    • Bad: Drops Constantly the mirror. No static IP

    If I knew that I would have these problems with this "product"
    I wouldn't have bought it.

    Bought i primarily for use i a mirror.
    Everytime my router needed a restart (this is not happening often) the Mirror didn't work because the IP Become a different IP than i had before ( this even when All other units on the network had static IP's)

  • nic4nac gave a review on 11/06/2009 17:28

    • Good: will not mount, can't save data to drive so never had a chance to lose data
    • Bad: still taking up shelf space in the stores

    Agreed....total rubish

    Be warmed, do not use, what a waste of money.

  • wobblo gave 1/10 on 06/03/2009 20:37

    • Good: keeps dust off my hdd's
    • Bad: almost no functionality for my 1tb drives

    waste of money, couldnt get to work with 2 1tb hdd's. wont be buying from netgear again for a while.

  • thejock gave 1/10 on 23/12/2008 08:11

    Mr. bmckenna, are you drunk? Do you have really used the infernal toaster?
    This is not a product, this is a rubbish!

  • Hieraco gave 2/10 on 06/11/2008 21:17

    • Good: Provides extended storage when it works.
    • Bad: Limited functionality
      Proprietary file system defies recovery when things go bad.
      Drives can not be read by Linux or Windows systems without the storage central software.
      No recovery tools included with package.
      Drive letters change on every start up.
      Obviously only as fast as the drive that you are copying from/to

    Very unhappy customer here.
    It Might be cheaper to build a SATA system on a cheap motherboard with minimal memory and network it..I'll be looking in to this alternative.
    NetGear has lost one customer, and countless others I will be warning to avoid this solution.

  • Bruce gave 4/10 on 27/05/2008 13:09

    • Bad: very bad

    Only use DHCP.
    Unable to use a static IP

  • Kas gave 3/10 on 11/01/2008 19:50

    Very slow, extremely slow that you'd rather use a cheaper enclosure

  • johanbogg gave 8/10 on 03/10/2007 23:17

    It does support JBOD/RAID-0 like function, just select that you want to "add capacity" to a partition and you can span it over one or several harddrives (even over several SC101T's)

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