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ZyXEL NSA-220 Network Storage Appliance

NSA-220 Network Storage Appliance

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ZyXEL NSA-220 Network Storage Appliance

  • Reviewed by: Lurker3

    10-11-08

    Duration of ownership: 1 Months

    Strengths: solid metal build not plastic, dual SATA drive support with RAID, front USB, Gigabit Network, media server, autobackup, FTP Server. Best of all: BitTorrent server!!

    Weaknesses:included manual is very basic and lacking in detail. Get the online one at http://us.zyxel.com/upload/download_library/NSA220 User Guide.pdf

    Overall Evaluation: Overall a very nice product, with more features and better quality construction that other manufacturers. It is solid metal build not plastic. It has dual SATA drive (up to 1TB each) support with RAID, front USB ports. It also features Gigabit Networking, which is much better tehan the 100MB many other products have. It also has a built in media server, FTP Server, and autobackup functions. But the best of all features, and one not found in most other products of this type, is a built-in BitTorrent download service!! You don't have to have your computer on to download torrents any longer...this will take over the workload, freeing up your computer for other tasks. It can also do direct downloads via FTP and HTTP, again bypassing your computer and reducing load on it. The paper manual that comes with the prodcut is just a Quick Start Guide, that doesnt go into very much detail. You can get the latest online full user manual at http://us.zyxel.com/upload/download_library/NSA220 User Guide.pdf Overall a very nice product, one I would easily recommend to anyone looking for this type of device. It is certainly one of the most solidly built, and feature-packed items out there.

  • Reviewed by: fguo79

    06-12-08

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: excellent build quality, dual drive slots, gigabit network

    Weaknesses:speed on Gigabit network could be improved

    Overall Evaluation: I love this NSA-220 network storage from Zyxel. It's made of metal with a 6cm fan attached at the back panel to get better airflow. The fan itself is pretty quiet in operation, you can also change it yourself if you want a even quieter fan. There are two hard drives slots in this unit, you can configure 2 HD in RAID 0,1 or JBOD. I currently use two 320G sata drive in RAID1 to give me safer data storage. On the software, Zyxel uses open source running on this Linux machine, therefore we can expect future features to be added on soon.It's also DLNA certified, if you have PS3 this machine could be the multimedia storage for PS3. Highly recommended!

  • Reviewed by: buzzly

    04-25-08

    Duration of ownership: 2 Weeks

    Strengths: More than just Network Storage ApplianceBuilt-in download/bittorrent servicesBuilt-in RSS, FTP, Webcasting servicesPrinter services

    Weaknesses:Still waiting for third-party enhancements to the firmware.

    Overall Evaluation: This is a faster and better NAS than the widely popular D-Link DNS-323. It has everything you need in a NAS- built-in Bittorrent, RSS, FTP, Webcasting, and printer server functions. It even supports Jumbo Frame. Its run very cool and quiet.Two related weaknesses:1) The Bittorrent service has almost no configuation, making it difficult to speed up the downloading speed.2) The firmware is open sourced, but, may be it is relatively new, there is no third-party enhancements can be found anywhere. I brought this with the hope that the hacking/open source community will make some enhancements to this already well-equiped NAS. Still waiting.

  • Reviewed by: krtz

    04-24-08

    Duration of ownership: 1

    Strengths: Solid built, nice look, great web interface, quiet and cool, stable

    Weaknesses:Front USB only, jumbo frame support is not good

    Overall Evaluation: I bought this NAS over D-link DNS323 due to its larger memory and more built-in functions. Put two Seagate 500GB SATA drives in. Installation is pretty easy. Upgraded the firmware to 2.20 which was just released March 08. This NAS runs quietly and stays cool. It fits my daily file storage purpose. Only compain is its lacking full support for jumbo frame. I can only get 11MB/s write speed on my Gigabit network.

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