Comments on: Netgear Storage Central Turbo (Review)

By: Quagmire

Quagmire — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:14:10 +0000

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By: 16522

16522 — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:57:54 +0000

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By: 11077

11077 — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:11:41 +0000

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By: Joe Wolfson

Joe Wolfson — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:32:11 +0000

I had the same problems and when I tried to reuse the hdd in the SCT101T I found that it is a proprietary format and whilst bios sees the drive neither windows nor Vista will assign it a drive letter and it wont allow reformatting. Great so I lose the unit and the HDD as well.

Netgear support wants to assist me to get the storage unit working. I dont want that I want my HDD back.

Netgear wont catch me agian

By: Soma.

Soma. — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:00:33 +0000

Soma….

Soma….

By: Roberto Balzan

Roberto Balzan — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:46:48 +0000

Our unit too was working fine, until we were oblidged to apply that simply buggy software upgrade to 14 Windows machines.
So the problem is not about the hardware, but about terrible upgrade procedures writers and testers and horrible (as a matter of fact completely useless) support.
I’m not interested at all in new Netgear products compatible with 64 OSs because I’m absolutely sure that the minimal problem I can face has no support and no solution.
Thanks very much

Roberto

By: sahas

sahas — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:43:57 +0000

@ Roberto
That is quite horrible it must have been a mess. Netgear is going to be releasing some new units soon, so hopefully they are compatible with 64bit systems and are more reliable. As for general use purposes, our unit worked perfectly. One of our authors has actually had one of these units running for a few months with no problems whatsoever. I’ve never dealt with Netgear’s customer support so I wouldn’t know how well they treat their customers. If you find a better and more reliable solution please let us know which one you used, we’d like to review it for our readers.

@Mike: I’m glad yours work just fine! :)

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:56:57 +0000

I got a beta version of the SC101T and I have had it for about 6-7 months now and it has been working perfectly fine for me. I have done the updates and everything. Never had any problems with the reliability.

By: Roberto Balzan

Roberto Balzan — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:33:42 +0000

I’m an IT professional and sold this product to a big client of mine.
I made the install and the device did not function bad at first, but then came an upgrade of the firmware and of the software utility to manage the SC101T from every single client of the network.
TWO of the PCs had the OS (WIN2K) simply destroyed, with BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) after forced restart. No way at all to repair it.
I contacted Netgear Support (at European level) and they spent three weeks (I suppose doing nothing), then called me and said that the problem was mine and to restore a backup older than the original installation made in June!
I also wrote on Netgear forum (where a lot of people have the same problems also with the SC101 software and with XP pro clients), but my post about terrible support was not published as ‘offensive’.
To add bad to bad this product does not support 64 bit OSs and wont never do.
Simply skip it and buy something else and better, if you mind the safety of your precious data.