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Super fast shipping, and even reached out when they were notified of a shipping exception when I wasn’t around to sign for the package to make sure everything was okay.
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Good buyer, prompt payment, valued customer, highly recommended. ACH Electronics
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Good buyer, prompt payment, valued customer, highly recommended.AAAAA++++++
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Good buyer, prompt payment, valued customer, highly recommended.AAAAA++++++
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Good buyer, prompt payment, valued customer, highly recommended.AAAAA++++++
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Good buyer, prompt payment, valued customer, highly recommended.AAAAA++++++
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Oct 25, 2015
Nice unit, only one real gripe...
The single most important thing, from a noise standpoint, with any NAS device is to USE QUIET DRIVES! Naturally, consider reliability and durability as well (remember, these drives are going to do a lot of thrashing, especially when you're first loading everything in).
I've had excellent results with the Western Digital 'Enterprise' class SATA drives (yellow/black label, says 'Enterprise' or something similar right on it). I loaded this unit up with four of them, in a RAID-5 configuration (which the unit thoughtfully applied, all on its own) and neither myself nor my wife can even hear the thing running.
Now, the one and only gripe I have about this unit: The last/latest firmware Netgear has for it (5.3.11) does not, apparently, support being part of an Active Directory domain DESPITE the presence of Active Directory options present in its config menus.
Granted, this is a very minor quibble. It certainly will not affect the unit's ability to stream or do anything else a typical user might ask of it. This is a point of concern mainly for the heavy-duty techies (like me) who run an in-house server farm and find it convenient to authenticate everything against AD. Since this unit won't do so, I found myself having to set up a few more local user accounts within the NAS itself, easily done with its web interface.
Other than that, great unit for the budget-minded! You'd be spending at least $600-$800 for a comparable current-production/new unit.
Sep 23, 2007
Quirky 'niche' flick... Worth a look at least.
2 of 2 found this helpful 'Quirky' I said in the title, and 'Quirky' I meant. There's no other way I can think of to put it. That's what happens, apparently, when you pair Dean Devlin ('Independence Day,' 'Stargate') as the story writer together with Rockne O'Bannon ('Farscape,' 'Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy') doing the teleplay (the television equivalent of a screenplay).
The series first aired on the SciFi Network back in 2006, and it was quickly released to DVD as well. WARNING: SPOILERS TO FOLLOW.
The main storyline is based on the idea that when the Navy did the now-infamous "Philadelphia Experiment" back in the 40's, they opened an unstable temporospatial rift in the region known as the Bermuda Triangle, a rift that gobbles up everything from Zodiac rafts to ocean liners to airliners. The one thing that the leading characters in the series have in common is that they've all lost someone or something to the Triangle over the years.
THE GOOD: The SFX are pretty darn good. One of the effects of the rift's instability is that Reality As We Know It keeps changing at random intervals, and one of the examples of such changes is watching Florida's Seven-Mile Bridge be perfectly solid one moment -- and then vanishing one segment at a time the next, thus dumping a number of vehicles into the Gulf of Mexico. And then it's back again a few minutes later.
Not good enough? How about the city of Miami suddenly changing, very subtly, around you, so subtly that you don't notice right away that anything's amiss. Until, that is, a cop starts bearing down on you, gun out and screaming for you to get on the ground, just because you have an Australian accent.
However, my view is that the producers saved the best FX for the ending. I'm not going to give it away. You'll just have to watch it for yourself. ;-)
THE BAD: This is a show that you have to pay CLOSE ATTENTION to, and I mean close. The continuity is not the best I've ever seen, and the way they do the reality shifts can be a bit disorienting. Also, the show drags in a few places.
Overall, though, I'd say this is well worth watching. It's the type of show where you may, on a repeat showing, spot details you missed the first time through.
Enjoy!