I'm actually quite interested in this device. It's a harddisk enclosure that allows you to put in your disk, and then you can hook it up to your network and it'll work as a network storage device. It runs its own Samba and FTP server so it's just plug and play. Nice. The only problem I have with it is that the website does contains some funky Engrish. Just take a look at the FAQ here.
Why Landisk only support FAT32 format?
As a Data storage unit which should be compatible as much as priority with all OS(operation system). Therefore, Landisk is not only a defect but also support NTFS. So far NTFS can support Win NT, 2000 and XP to read and write but read only on Win98, ME and Linux. FAT32 can read and write on all WIN OS, Mac OS X and Linux. File limitation is the only one issue between FAT32 and NTFS. FAT Support LBA frame, support to Max. IDE format up to 2TB(2,000GB) and file up to 4GB Max.
Just read the portion that I've highlighted in bold. Makes you a bit wary of the product, eh?
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Just bought the landisk. The product is ok, considering the low price (compared to some dedicated NAS devices from iomega and the likes). Just used my old WD EIDE hard drive and I had 120GB of networked storage.
Problems: It supports ONLY FAT32. That means no files larger than 4GB. So any backup generating files larger than that will not work.
Datatransfer rate may be not as high as they claim too, but that's only my preliminary observation.
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