Originally Posted by steele 
...now the power button on the front does nothing. Beacuse the drive does not spin down (not happy) I have to turn of the unit when not in use for long periods and with out the power button now have to navigate through the web app!!
Steele,
Checking the Thecus N299 pages, the release notes (posted much later than the firmware was made available) indicate the "problem" you're reporting with the power button isn't actually a problem: it seems the facility to power down the unit by pressing the power button has been removed -- to avoid accidental power downs, you are now required to hold down the power button for a few seconds.
As for the lack of a spin down feature, yes this is bad. The shortcomings of Thecus' product design (i.e. not providing the spin down feature) and documentation (i.e. documenting a feature that isn't present) are unfortunate.
It was bad enough to overlook this feature. What's worse is they provided documentation and marketing material claiming this product had the feature, later blaming the absence of it on a documentation error. Sloppy indeed.
Mark.