Universal Tech MyXerver Pro MX3800 It was only a matter of time before someone thought of putting Wi-Fi connectivity into a network-attached storage (Nas) drive for small networks. Come to think of it, we must have thought of it at least three years ago, but at the end of last year, Universal Tech lay claim to being the first to bring the idea to market. …
Any chance this one might actually be released? I tried to buy the last MyXerver product you guys reviewed. Amazon had it as "Coming soon" for a few months and then cancelled it. As best as I could make out, it wasn't actually released. A quick Google suggests this is not available yet either. I hope this isn't more vapourware!
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/05/14/review_storage_network_ezy_technologies_myxerver_mx3600/ ?
I got one from Novatech - was advertised as a Novatech own brand NAS
To be honest, it wasn't the best purchase I've made.
The device ran extremely hot, and the user inteface resembled the early linksys efforts.
Also the fact that the device didn't allow telnet or SSH connections annoyed me.
Is there such a thing as a NAS box with a built-in mailserver, which can download emails for external accounts, and then serve them via IMAP to users on the home LAN?
Just wondered, as my hacked Linksys NSLU2 with Fetchmail/sendmail/Dovecot does this. It is unlikely to keep going indefinitely, and once it goes "phut", it would be nice if there was a NAS which could handle our internal emails the same way. (Or maybe it's just me who does this...)
Tux, 'cos my "slug" runs Linux...
No I thought of this first, me me me!
I built a NAS box for my house about 5 years ago using a PCI wifi card. I've had to upgrade the drive capacity in it since then but still works great.
Should have patented it to stop these guys ripping my idea off!
Though I'm not sure they grant patents for the stupidly obvious
DOES NOT contain an SU9600 CPU, I think they cost more than the entire 250GB unit.
The webiste lists "High Performance RISC processo" - yes I quote literally, there is no r on processor.
Also if it defaulted to 10/100 networking how did you manage 20MB/s read performance when the maximium theoretical over 10/100 is 12.5MB/s.
802.11g basically useless for file transfer unless you live in the middle of nowhere (so no contention in the airwaves) and sit right next to it... so maybe you achieve a bit of the theoretical 6.75MB/s.
It's most definitly not the first with wireless either. Close, but no cigar... it's one saving grace is the quietness. Better solution - get a decent router with N networking AND a decent NAS, and connect them via good old fashioned cable.
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