Comments on: SimpleTech 160GB SIMPLESHARE External Hard Drive( STI-NAS/160 )

By: Burke Squires

Burke Squires — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:08:48 +0000

Review by Burke Squires for SimpleTech 160GB SIMPLESHARE External Hard Drive( STI-NAS/160 ) Rating: SimpleTech 160GB SIMPLESHARE External Hard Drive( STI-NAS/160 )This drive stopped mounting with no warning what-so-ever about a year after purchase. If you value your data I would strongly recommend NOT purchasing a SimpleTech hard drive.

By: D. Engstrom

D. Engstrom — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:15:26 +0000

Review by D. Engstrom for SimpleTech 160GB SIMPLESHARE External Hard Drive( STI-NAS/160 ) Rating: Mac users should be aware of the fact that this drive will not support mounting via NFS. You will need to use SMF/CIFS which has a multitude of issues around file names. SimpleShare firmware has not been updated in years.

By: mallione

mallione — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:58:10 +0000

Review by mallione for SimpleTech 160GB SIMPLESHARE External Hard Drive( STI-NAS/160 ) Rating: Have had one of these running for well over a year without any problems.

Did not really appreciate the quality of the NAS firmware in this drive until we recently purchased a Maxtor Shared Storage II 500 Gb NAS only to find out that the Maxtor only works on networks configured as a Workgroup. Unbelievable. In layperson terms if your computers are joined to a domain, you cannot browse to the Maxtor NAS drive in Network Neighborhood, which means your backup software cannot write to it, as well, you cannot image to it, or restore from it.

This OLDER SimpleTech drive works great. You can join a domain, or leave it in a workgroup.

As for those that comment that hard drives 'suddenly fail' from time to time ... duh ... so so tapes, CDs, DVDs, and for that matter ... people.

By: Gob

Gob — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:02:41 +0000

Review by Gob for SimpleTech 160GB SIMPLESHARE External Hard Drive( STI-NAS/160 ) Rating: This is an excellent addition to any home network. It's very easy to install (I had it going on three computers in less than 30 minutes); the print server portion of the hard drive is not as easy to setup. It found my printer with little effort, but did not want to share it. The manual does a poor job telling you how to set up the printer. It also does not offer the best security, so make sure you have a good firewall.

If you want to buy it from Amazon.com through CompUSA (their third party vendor), however, be warned; I bought it through Amazon, and received a regular 160 GB external hard drive. I took it to CompUSA, and was informed that it was listed wrong, and that there is no such thing as an Office server. (...)

By: Techman

Techman — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:02:57 +0000

Review by Techman for SimpleTech 160GB SIMPLESHARE External Hard Drive( STI-NAS/160 ) Rating: This NAS is completely 100% plug and play. Installation and setup was less than five minutes. If you are in the market for a NAS, look no further this is the best Network Attached Storage out there. Best of all the print server works great without sweating the configurations. No complains at all except that there is no backup software which I don't really want. It doesn't required a fan but sometimes it get hot. But the manual states that this condition is ok. I have completely eliminated my network file sharing system as this network drive can be access with all the computer sleeping and printing is superb...I have test drive it for more than 2 weeks now and I have every reasons to believe that this product deserves unlimited stars... Nice Job SimpleTech