Ximeta 80GB NetDisk

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Ximeta 80GB NetDisk

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Brian Kristensen
Kurtis
Ximeta
Jan. 3, 2004

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Introduction

In order for homes or small businesses to share data across multiple computers, you would traditionally have to set up a peer-to-peer network which would require you to leave a computer on all the time for others to access it, or setup a file server which requires considerable time and money to purchase and setup. But maybe you don't need storage that is always accessible to multiple computers, maybe you would like to occasionally share data between computers without having to use a network or constantly burn CDs. While the latter has an easy solution requiring nothing more than an external hard drive or other USB accessible media, the former wasn't as simple.

Along comes Ximeta's NetDisk, which is not only a USB 2.0 accessible hard drive, it is also accessible to a computer or an entire network via a 100Mbps Ethernet port. Rather than having an entire computer for sharing files, the NetDisk is just a hard drive recognized as a Network Direct Attached Storage (NDAS) drive. This means all you have to do is plug the NetDisk into the network and you have low cost, space saving storage for your entire network. Ximeta sent us the NDU10-80 model, which is a NetDisk with a 7200RPM 80GB hard drive with currently retails for around $200 USD. Ximeta also has a 120GB retailing for around $230 USD and 160 GB NetDisks for around $300 USD. While the NetDisk is originally intended for the small business market, the competitive pricing makes it worthy of home network use as well.

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Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: A Closer Look
Page 3: Setting up the NetDisk
Page 4: Performance
Page 5: Issues / Conclusion

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3 User Comments

1 - Posted by Kurtis on January 4, 2004 - 12:31 am

Ximeta’s NetDisk is not only a USB 2.0 accessible hard drive, it is also accessible to a computer or an entire network via a 100Mbps Ethernet port. Is this an external hard drive or pocket sized file server?

http://www.thetechlounge.com/review.php?directory=...

2 - Posted by zero_seek on June 15, 2004 - 6:50 pm

I'm actually using their new 3.03 multi-write drivers, and it is working great for me with 3 machines (2 winxp and 1 win2k machine). I had a problem upgrading, but after talking to ximeta support, they sent me a cleanup utility to install everything from scratch and that solved everything...all in all a great drive and great support...

-steve

3 - Posted by Guest on August 14, 2004 - 1:45 pm

I bought this product with high expectations. These were not met.
1) It is not a server, so it has to be run with special software on any computer that access it (assuming using ethernet)
2) The one I got, and the one a friend of mine got (at the same time) have never worked.
3) I sent mine back for warranty replacement. I bought the unit end of april, and have still not received a replacement. It is now middle of August. I am giving up on getting my money back.
My advice, do not buy products from this company.

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