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Western Digital ShareSpace 2 TB 4-bay Gigabit Ethernet Network Attached Storage with RAID 5 – WDA4NC20000N
Product Description
The WD ShareSpace high-speed network-attached storage system with high capacity and a space-saving footprint gives you all the benefits of a big time data center without the need for a big time IT department. Perfect for centralizing and sharing data on a small office or home network. Plug this high-speed Gigabit Ethernet storage system into your small office or home network for centralized storage with plenty of capacity to go around.

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  • NAS 2TB 4BAY RAID

CustomerReviews

Good stuff
It worked plug and play with my mac system. However, documentation was limited for the more advanced features. Still, so far.. so good.

Negative Reviews Are Not Right
This is a very good solid NAS (Network Attached Storage)

I will address the negatives as most are wrong.

Lack of Documentation? Is wrong. There is a 100 page manual on the CD and there is exceptional contextual help when you connect to the NAS with a web browser.

Poor performance? Is wrong. This is a NAS device not an internal drive. For me it writes at about 100 mbs and reads at about 230 mbs. It is common knowledge that to get the protection of RAID 5 you must give up some write performance.

You can see each others files? This is wrong. If you use a web browser to the NAS and create users you can then map drives as that user. Each user has there own file space and you can even limit their disk quota.

The backup software is poor? This is wrong. I am using it for 300 GB backups and I can select what files or drives I want. The really cool thing is that once your first backup is done it only backs up the files AS YOU SAVE THEM so you NEVER have to do a long backup again. Also you can get as many copies of a file you want so if you delete or mangle a file you can retrieve whatever version you like. Sorry kids, but this feature totally ROCKS!

Web interface is slow? Not on my system.

Too slow for a video server? This is wrong. Max video (uncompressed Blue Ray) is 25 mbs. The one person is trying to use his RAID 5 backup drive for video editing? Usually you use RAID 1 for that. And I have never heard of anyone using ‘Network’ attached storage for editing, only directly connect drives. Even a full Gigabit network is too slow for that.

All that said, it is usefull to have knowledge of either Windows file share using the ‘connect as’ feature or knowledge of Linux if you want to connect a Mac or do ftp backups. This isn’t a toy. :-)

A Lot of Storage, Some Bugs to Fix
Received the 4TB from Amazon. Good price, good shipping. It came as it declared in the description.

I’ve had the Sharespace for a month now and experienced nothing major. Used it out of the box in its default RAID 5.

Comes ready to share files! It comes ready share media (iTunes, etc.). I also had no issues with connecting and streaming with my XBox 360. However, in my experience with iTunes sharing, I had to turn off iTunes sharing and then turn it back on in order for it to work.

By that I mean, when trying to connect to the WD Sharespace iTunes, iTunes on my MacBook Pro gives an error like, “Cannot connect to WD Sharespace. Make sure your computer or the WD Sharespace is configured to have port 3689 open.” By default, the newer Macs have this port and a few others open by default when you have your firewall open. If it is not, you can specify.

So I log in to the Sharespace, turn it off and then on again and it works. Strange. I emailed Tech Support explaining my error message (I was not rude or angry) and got an immediate, if not almost useless reply. I replied back but haven’t heard back.

Logging in as Admin using the GUI is easy, and it’s easy to use once you’re in. FTP is a snap, and the other features are good.

Sweet
Needed more space for pictures and family videos. This thing works as advertised. Plugged it into power and network. Software that came with it works very nicely. Surely, not inexpensive, but if this size of storage is what you need, then this product will not disappoint.

WD Digital ShareSpace 4
Didn’t get this product, they sent me a different model Linksys 2 bay as a replacement that doesn’t do what this product does they said that they didn’t carry this product and opted to send a replacement which was not even half as good as the product ordered. buyer beware of what you are ordering they do send cheaper replacements.

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