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Title: Complete waste of time and money
Review: I thought that the SC101 would be an "upgrade" from my current Ximeta NDAS storage device. Wrong. I bought two drives that are on Netgear's compatibility list, and tried to configure the device for mirroring. Nothing worked until I used the "Storage Central Manager Utility" to upgraded the software & firmware. Fair enough. After lots of fiddling, I finally got the thing online. My goal was to use it to sync my desktop & laptop. Half the time the SC101 can't be seen from Explorer by either machine. It causes both PCs to hang EVERY TIME I shut down. I've tried various boot and shutdown sequences, and it doesn't seem to make any difference. As others have mentioned, it also runs hot. I ended up pointing a small fan at the thing in order to keep it at a reasonable temperature. Finally, it is really slow when writing data in the RAID configuration.
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