[dave852]

I sent mine back after only a couple days and there was one main reason.

Speed

I'm completely new to the world of NAS and the N299 was my first. I had no idea that I shouldn't have expected anywhere near gigabit speeds (i still don't understand why). Also to only be able to write data slower than my 8 megabit internet downloaded it seemed just unbelieveable for a dedicated storage device.

Saying it also had an idle spin down feature when it doesn't is also a hell of a mistake to make. If future firmware upgrades include it fair enough but if it really is that simple to put in why wasn't it put in from the start. I suspect it never will be available for the N299.

Finally the JBOD. It wasn't untill I put the 2 500GB hdds from the Thecus into a PC that i realised the data had not remained intact. As some1 has posted the JBOD is just as dangerous to data on both hdds in the event of drive failure as the RAID options. Which to me seems utterly foolish.

All in all DO NOT BUY THE N299. For those waiting for its release in the states. DO NOT BUY THE N299. I can't say it enough. Its utter cr*p.