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Customer Reviews:
Great little speaker system
This is really a great little speaker system for what I wanted. It puts out plenty of power with great sound. I have a PC connected to my LCD TV and use this system with it, and I am really satisfied. I watch Blu-Ray movies and download Netflix movies, and they do great. I especially love the compact size. Don’t expect too much from it, but for the price and the size, it is quite excellent.

Amazing
Huge upgrade from stock desktop JBL speakers. The woofer is a bit weak when turned to max volume, but I was very very impressed with the quality and sound these put out. great value and woofer will annoy the neighbors. Woofer control on one of the desk speakers

3 PC Subwoofer / Speaker System
I recently purchased this system. It replaced a 5.1 Surround System costing double the cost of this compact system. The sound is “outstanding”,rich, powerful and very clear.

I was very suprised at the low price and the ease of set up.This system is a good upgrade from most commonly purchased PC speakers,and with the subwoofer it is a system you cannot touch for this kind of money.

Customer Reviews:
decent cable
This cable met all my expectations. It is well built and long enough to do the job.

On Time As Advertised
Product arrived on-time. I use the cables in my travels, especially in hotels, at client sites and in the homes of family members when I need to set up an office away from the office.

GREAT!
I have a Brother MFC-9840CDW printer and the cable works fine! The blue is a great color because it is easy to detect from the black cords.

So easy a Caveman could use it…
What to say, I wanted 14 feet of Cat5 cable and I got it. No issues after many uses including coil and uncoil.

What do you say about a cable?
Well this one is great! The key feature is that the plastic is soft and doesn’t insist on curling where you don’t want it. I have too many cables running all over already and don’t need ones that won’t stay where I want them.

Customer Reviews:
Great storage solution
I have attached this to our home network with an iMac, a PC and a Mac Mini attached to our TV. I use it to store music, photos and video. I got a sony hi def video camera at christmas so I already have an enormous amount of hi def video (imported through imovie). My network is connected with gigabit ethernet using an apple airport. The last NAS I had did not stream the HD video fast enough (using SMB) to the computers or the TV. This NAS works perfectly. I can stream HD video from it through the mini to the tv with no delays or glitches in the sound or video. I got it with 2 500 GB drives and added two 320 drives I had from the old NAS. It works perfectly but unfortunately when you mix different size drives and use the default x-raid setting, it sees all of the drives as the same size as the smallest. So I am not utilizing 180 GB (500-320) from the two 500 GB drives. My total storage capacity is approximaetly 900 GB while the raw capacity is 1,640. I do not yet need even the 900 GB so it isn’t that big of a deal. I will just keep my eye open for 2 more 500 GB drives on sale to increase the capacity when needed. All other functions work great. As I mentioned I am in a mac centric network so the AFP file sharing protocol is great - probably why the trasnfer rates are high enough to support HD video.

Great Device Until NetGear Bought The Company
This device is very functional, great pricing, robust, full of features and add-ons. Maybe not the fastest NAS on the block, but for home use, holding huge amounts of data, and streaming media back to us, was always great. Reasonable web-based interface as well. Right up until NetGear took over and brought out the latest firmware upgrade. Never had a problem before, but this upgrade, which should not touch your data volume, messes with the volume format without warning, irreversibly, and large numbers of people have had problems with their units afterward. Mine won’t boot with the new firmware, and if I go back to the old version I can no longer access my data. Essentially turned my NAS into an expensive brick, and tech support is unhelpful as they have no real resolution.

Save yourself some headaches and Do Not Buy. Was a great company, oh well.

A piece of junk
I brought this and 4 500 GB WD drives to backup my system. It hanged twice this morning and a dozen times since I purchased couple month ago. I am not heavy user, only turn it on when I need it, run a day or two continuously. I am usually just copying a lot of small files (20000 files ranging from 20KB to 300MB).

Everytime it hangs, there is no way to shut it down except unplug the power. This will trigger a filesystem check, which take hours. Worst yet, I had one occasion that the fs check stuck and I have to unplug the power again.

At this point, I am just afraid of losing my data. That’s the reason I am backing up all my file from the ReadyNAS onto a RAID 1 eSATA local drive using a Rosewill adapter.

If you care about your data, don’t use this as backup. It cause me more problem than using USB or local drive.

has a major software bug
I own a large number of NetGear (formerly Infrant) NAS devices. After NetGear bought the company, they came out with a new version of the embedded OS of those devices that looks like it is mostly just a cosmetic update that changes the name Infrant to NetGear.

Unfortunately, it also introduces a very serious and reproducible bug for Apple Macintosh users. When you mount one of the NAS boxes running the new version of the OS under AppleShare, a file copied to the NAS box always gets today’s date as its creation date. Strangely, if you copy a folder, the folder date is set correctly to the original creation date of the source folder, but the files contained inside of it lose their original creation dates.

This bug occurs ONLY under the new version of the OS (4.00), not under the previous version (3.01). It occurs both under OS X 10.4 and 10.5.

I have spent considerable time on hold and on the phone with NetGear technical support, and they claim this is a problem with the AFS file protocol. I don’t know how they can make this claim when quite evidently everything works just fine under the previous version of their own software, but the gentleman on the phone basically told me something to the effect of “nobody uses AFS anyway, so why should we care”.

If you are an Apple owner and are considering a NAS box, you may want to hold off on purchasing a NetGear device for the time being. Using Samba file sharing is not really an option either, because that severely limits your file naming possibilities. This is a real error and NetGear needs to fix it.

Nice, easy but slow
The item is pretty easy to use right out of the box, it wasn’t too hard to configure for sharing. However, I’m unimpressed with the speed, it just seems slow. The NAS is plugged directly into a gigabit switch port, so I’m a bit surprised and disappointed to notice the speed difference.

Customer Reviews:
a window on a new world
As a medical doctor somewhat unwillingly dragged in IT by the accidents of life, I suffer from frequent bouts of nostalgia, remembering fondly the time where I was studying life sciences. That’s during one of those episode that I bought this gadget, thinking it would probably end up gathering dust on a shelve. Boy, I was wrong! The microscope is so light and well designed that it can be taken anywhere. It is up and running in a few seconds, it’s waterproof and it is sturdy. Its optical quality is beyond reproach.

But what really stunned me is the sheer amount of interesting things the 20x magnification is putting within my reach: seemingly uninteresting insects such as aphids offer are seen tantalizing amount of detail; closely watching a dining spider is something you will not forget soon. In the vegetal world, patterns seem to pop out of nowhere. This is also an incredible educational toy for children since it turns the most basic garden into a giant natural history museum.

One caveat, but not an unexpected one: since it is designed to be extremely light, no light source is provided. A white led connected to a cheap 5V supply can be helpful in low light conditions.