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Haselsmasher
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Post subject: Any Experience With CyberNetor ED-35-SRD?
 Posted: Sep 30, 2009 - 07:23 PM CST
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I'm looking for a NAS box for home use. I haven't investigated this product space in a while so I'm figuring out what the various offerings are.
I'm looking for a multi-drive box that has both LAN (wired) and USB interfaces. This is where I'm running into some issues - often these multi-bay boxes have USBs for print servers and such. I don't care about that. But I do want standard USB external HDD capability. (The use model is to take my laptop to the device and use USB for full image backups. Then access the device over the LAN for small data sets and probably incrementals.)
I found the ED-35-SRD which, from a spec perspective, appears perfect. I get a bit nervous, however, when I can't find *anything* about people's experiences with it. (I found one forum where someone was having a hard time with it - but that's it.) And I can't find information on the purported manufacturer.
Any advice on this device? Or other devices that meet my requirements above?
Thanks.
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Post subject: Did you ever succeed with the ED-35-SRD?
Posted: Jul 03, 2010 - 09:21 PM CST
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I have a chance to purchase one, and since the VOX N1 that I bought to serve as the household NAS has been a bust, I was wondering if this would be a better fit?
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Post subject: RE: Did you ever succeed with the ED-35-SRD?
Posted: Jul 05, 2010 - 08:57 AM CST
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I ended up getting a Coolmax CN 330. I'd assess it as "passable". It works. The documentation is horrible. It's a book of essentially every screen shot in the config GUI and a listing of the things on the screen. "Password: Enter a password you'll remember to keep your device secure." Thanks. Very helpful. Had to pick up the documentation to understand that. I wasn't quite sure.
Probably what I dislike the most is that the unit has to be rebooted to switch between network access and USB access.
The bottom line: It's usable enough where I haven't been motivated to go find something better, but if you get it be prepared to spend some time getting it set up just the way you want. It's most definitely not for the non-technical person, and definitely not a pull-out-of-the-box, plug-it-in-and-go solution.
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Post subject: RE: Did you ever succeed with the ED-35-SRD?
Posted: Jul 06, 2010 - 12:09 PM CST
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I personally really love the Netgear ReadyNAS products. External USB can be for Printers or Hard disks. You can backup to the USB hard disk or set it up as a share.
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Post subject: RE: Did you ever succeed with the ED-35-SRD?
Posted: Jul 06, 2010 - 12:10 PM CST
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I guess I should have mentioned that for home use I usually recommend either the ReadyNAS Duo (2 drive) or ReadyNAS NVX (4 drive)
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