[Ham-Computers] Linksys NAS200 Network Storage Unit

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Dale,

Yes, I saw two on there early this past week as regular auctions, both 
without drives.  When I looked again last night there were several more, most in 
eBay Stores, both with and without drives.  But when I went to Microsys and 
then the Linksys site to try to find out what the going retail price is, 
there wasn't any trace of them.  

My son gave me a Buffalo Link Station for Christmas.  It seems to work OK 
but physically doesn't match the rest of our hardware.  So what I was 
thinking of doing was getting one of the empty Linksys units and putting the two 
500 GB drives from the Buffalo into it.

All of our network hardware except the cabling is Linksys (the blue 
stackable units with the same form factor as the NAS200) so we are probably on one 
of their mailing lists.  I think it was sometime early last year that I 
received a small brochure (undated) with the first mention I had seen of the 
drive housing.  So now I'm curious as to why they came and went so quickly.  Do 
they have some high failure rate?  Is there a serious problem with the 
firmware or software?  Etc.  If I kept the Microsys sales sheets like I keep the 
Fair Radio catalogs I could a least go back and see how long they showed up 
and what the prices were like.  :-)

In a message dated 5/2/2010 1:59:08 AM Central Daylight Time, 
stpatrick3 at twlakes.net writes: 
> WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> >Does anyone know what happened to the Linksys NAS200 network drive 
> housing? 
> >  I got an advance card on it maybe last year and was going to look into 
> it 
> >but got sidetracked.  I recently decided again to pursue it but they no 
> >longer seem to sell it.  Did it have problems?  Or did it just not sell 
> like 
> >hotcakes so they dropped it?
> >
> >Robert &Susan Downs - Houston
> >wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> >MVPA 9480
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> >   
> 
> Robert you will have to look on ebay..that is where I found them...
> I want one also.
> 
> -- 
> All the Best &73's
> Dale Miller, KC2CBD
> Tennessee
> Ham Operator since 1997
> Member of YahooPipesmokers and ASP since February 2005
> 

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480