[Ham-Computers] Linksys NAS200 Network Storage Unit

[Dale Miller]

WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> 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.  :-)
>
>   

Well I will assume because Cisco owns Linksys that the NAS200 didn't 
sell well.
I'm not seeing any with the typical blue housing on ebay.
In fact I don't think any of Linksys's Network Attached Storage units 
came in the typical blue housing.
The only other one I know of is the NSLU2.
I don't know what the going price was so can't help there.


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