Forget about connecting usb to usb, too - this disk will not work unless it's part of your network, and then you can look forward to never connecting and, if you do, the awful transfer speed

The hard disk inside was okay, and I was able to recover my data through use of a Linux machine and FuseExt2 tools

and well it seems that while the base unit will latch on lan - wise, the hard disk will not go into full mounting - motor spins but the read/write heads do not start to read/write

The Dashboard software works quite well for realtime automatic backups, although Windows treats it like just another external hard disk and allows you to manually backup or transfer files to and from it as well.

It's hidden value is that it's an eminently hackable Cavium dual-core floating-point ARM6 Busybox LINUX system with a stonking amount of hard disk space and a hardware-accelerated gigabit network card, with external USB

so I'm stuck with an expensive paper weight that looks like a hard disk

If your connection between the computer and the hard disk is 100mbps, the transfer rate will be 100mbps/8, that will be 12.5MB/s, on a test of transfer speed, I got a transfer speed of

When the hard disk is replaced on a usb3 seagate adaptor it also has problem fully loading it, when it does the drive shudder with a vigorousness that can be felt.

I decided I might as well try to salvage the hard disk from the "abandoned in place" device, although it had, to the best of my knowledge, not spun up at all, and proceeded to pop the covers off

Now I know, the power supply may drop in output over time, the hard disk will develop file errors and if you cannot reconnect this to a computer as a direct remote drive and not a NAS you can not do repairs to keep the disk in good shape.

Seamless remote disk access: The SMB implementation is solid

whereas before the best I could achieve was ~10-13mb/s and sometimes worse

I had read numerous reviews panning the upload speed, and I experienced 1.5 MB/s, which was in line with what I expected (but agonizingly slow when you're putting up digital copies of movies at 1-2GB a pop)