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You get what you pay for . . .

I knew when I put this extravagantly named device on my wish list that I was taking a risk. For under $500, the device contains to 500 GB drives, configurable as a single 1 TB volume or a mirrored 500 GB volume, is network-attached, and has a USB port for additional drives. The catch is that not a lot of quality control went into the device. When I first fired it up, I chose to reconfigure the drives from the default 1 TB to the mirrored configuration, which requires the drives to be reformatted. That process was easy enough to initiate, but it then got stuck at around 70% and ceased updating the Web management interface. I restarted it, had the same thing happen, fired off an email to tech support, then tried it again. Fortunately, third time was a charm, because I didn't hear back from support for over two months.

Other minor complaints:
* There is no soft power-down option on my unit, so I have to crawl under my desk to turn it off, even though there's a "Turn off" option in the management interface . . .
* . . . and I need to turn it off when it's not being used, because the fans are incredibly noisy, and the status LED's are sufficiently bright to act as a night-light.
* Even though the device is clearly Linux-based and hence is probably running Samba, I can't conceal file shares by appending a $ to the share name.

I recommend this device for the tech-savvy penny-pincher who is willing to take a chance to save some money and doesn't mind a few annoyances. Anyone else should probably just shell out for a higher-end unit.

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Outstanding Value - Excellent Product

This is a phenominal NAS drive. It's very high quality and sturdily built, and works like a charm. It has a somewhat confusing user unterface, but this is still the best value on the market for NAS drives.

1 TB for less than $500!!!!

Shipping was quicker than expected, and the drive was very well-packaged!

Fantom Drives G-Force MegaDisk NAS is the latest addition to the G-Force MegaDisk family of storage products packing a dual core processor, dual SATA300-NCQ, enabled disk mechanisms, dual USB expansion ports, and a gigabit Ethernet network connection in the same compact heat dissipating aluminum enclosure. Award-winning NTI Shadow offers real-time continuous backup in addition to scheduled backup to virtually any storage device. Its powerful yet easy to use interface offers customers the ability to securely backup and safeguard their valuable data files. NTI Shadow also offers custom file type filtering version control drag and drop file restoring and more.

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