News - Netgear Stora simplifies NAS for the everyday consumer

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Easy-to-use NAS strips high-end functionality to appeal to your average home user.

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I was hoping this would turn out to be a proper competitor to the Drobo range of products.

But it's not..............................

This looks like the same box that the as the storage central products that pretend to be a nas but aren't very good.

http://www.netgear.com/Products/Stor...ge/SC101T.aspx

I only hope this is better.

Well it is Mac and linux compatible, so should be a little better than the SC101T.

Having jumped into the world of NAS too early a couple of years back with a Freecom FSG 3 that took much effort to get recognised on a home LAN - and even more effort get recognised by more than one PC on the network, I wonder if the time has come to try a Netgear Stora? Or is the more established ReadyNAS still a better option (in a 2-disk RAID set up)? If the Stora is more appropriate, is it too immature, and hence better to wait for a few months for firmware updates to improve the product?