Maxtor Shared Storage II 1TB

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If you asked me how I felt about the NAS, I would have to say it's a bare bones product priced slightly higher than it should be. If you look at NewEgg's Network Attached Storage selection, you'll find a variety of products selling for a variety of price points, so you'll hardly fine a direct 1:1 comparison. The essentials are there, if you're looking for simple features like backing up to a USB device, or sharing a printer, or even sharing media on a UPnP compliant device or iTunes, but power users will come across disappointed.

I found myself uninstalling the software after a few days of trying to use it, which honestly isn't unsurprising. I doubt much effort will ever be put into this type of bundled software with smaller companies, but if anything, I thought a company like Maxtor could have done a better job. It's a shame that this isn't mentioned anywhere by Maxtor, but the software isn't required at all. As long as the drive is mountable (in Windows, go to Tools > Map Network Drive in Explorer, or look for the drive in the Finder in OS X 10.4 and above), it can be used. You lose the backup feature, but alternatively, you can roll your own solution and backup manually or on a schedule.

[...]I wasn't able to get the media server streaming to work properly (and there is no indication whether or not it's on at all when it's supposed to be, for that matter), and I've recently discovered why. Amazingly, it only supports MP3 files and MPG-2 videos. Rob was able to get it working on a different system, but mentioned the drive took quite some time to refresh in iTunes, which might be a limitation of iTunes, we are unsure.

This will have no bearing on the score of the review, but because of Maxtor's apparent neglect in of solving issues related to the product, there is a bit of backlash coming from their users. Customer reviews around the Internet have not been so positive, and there have even been threads on Seagate's own forums citing its poor reliability (including a thread full of customers recommending avoiding it). We didn't experience problems of that magnitude, but there is no way to test the long-term dependability in the review. Naturally, you're going to have a vocal disgruntled minority, but we haven't exactly seen much praise about it either.

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werte sind für so ein Teil echt gut