It has been almost a month since I am using it, and it keeps destroying files!!!Īt least 5-6 600MB files bit the dust for unknown reason. The founder there, told me this looks like the devices he is working on and I keep my hopes high! Unfortunately the website of sumvision there is no way to contact them and inform them about it and there is no new firmware for this device. The speed doesnt come close to Giga, which is a huge let down, since I only bought it hoping it was way faster than the competition. If perhaps was a faulty transmission, or something worse.The disk itself was working flawlessly before, so I dont think its a problem with the hard disk.Īnother problem is that the device doesnt live up to the expectations of the Gigabit ethernet. Instead of being 600MB, now it was 30KB and of course unaccessible. The file itself was there the name, was there with the proper filetype, but the size was different. Lated however when I tried to access the file from my PC, the file had somehow vanished. I copied 2 large files (a few days apart one from the other) about 600MB each. Update: There must be a bug on the device. It has no screws to hold it in place, but in doing so I damaged two of the four the pins that hold the cap in position.

I also disassembled the box to make some photos. The downside as I see it, is that the hard disk is continuously on which probably limits its life and the dongle itself becomes a little bit hot so I am considering putting it on an old laptop heatsink.Ĭonsidering it costs about 40£ to buy online, its almost all I was asking for. The set up has been on for a few days now, with no glitches. The hard disk connected needs to be formated with FAT 32 from the software provided and after setting up user and administrator usernames and passwords you are good to go It is very easy to set up and the CD manual is very informative and acts as a step by step guide. It comes with a CD rom with the software needed to set up the device, a power adapter and a 20 cm Ethernet cable. Giga NAS dongle, however uses 10/100/1000 mbit connection, which allows about 1.5 MB/sec file transfer which is not much but ok even for video transfer with no serious lags. Perhaps that was adequate a few (a lot) years back, but certainly not today. There are quite a few similar devices out there even from known brands, but most of them have speeds of 10/100 mbit which is very very slow by today's standards. It is called, Giga NAS Storage Dongle made by Sumvision and has one USB storage port and one USB print port to share a network printer. Dedicated Hard Drive NAS systems, were out of the question, since I needed the solution to be as cheap as possible and use external hard disks I already had. For a long time now, I wanted to set up a Network Storage solution so that files could be accessed, from all the computers in the home network.

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