Product description

Linksys by Cisco NSLU2 Network Storage Link for USB 2.0 Disk Drives

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Average customer rating: 4.0

Binding : Electronics
EAN : 0745883560561
Label : Linksys
Manufacturer : Linksys
Publisher : Linksys
Release date : 2004-08-31
Title : Linksys by Cisco NSLU2 Network Storage Link for USB 2.0 Disk Drives
Number of items : 1
Studio : Linksys
Brand : Linksys
Model : NSLU2-UK
MPN : NSLU2-UK
Package quantity : 1
Feature : Array

Editorial reviews

Product Description
Add gigabytes of storage space to your network in no time at all, with the NSLU2-EU network storage link from Linksys. This tiny device connects USB 2.0 hard drives directly to your Ethernet network. You can connect up to two stand-alone USB disk drives of any size and access them from anywhere on your network. You can even plug a USB flash disk into the NSLU2-EU, for convenient access to your portable data files. The NSLU2-EU can also be set up so that your storage devices are accessible through the Internet.

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-11-22 rating:

Great device
This is a great little device, but not for the novice. I run my house music network serving FLAC files (why do people still use the mp3 format, oh yeah 'cos apple still live in the last century) to 4 Sonos music devices. It consumes 2w of power so can be left on 24/7. Its not the fastest device but is more than sufficient as a music server. Its has been very reliable over the last 2 years. I had to upgrade the firmware, but mine is over two years old.

review by: date: 2008-07-17 rating:

Quality control?
I bought one of these intending to install a custom firmware that would allow me to use it as a music server on the LAN and over the web. I got it up and running on my network with the standard firmware in no time, but when I switched it off in order to attach a disk drive, it failed to restart - all I got was the power light, none of the system LEDs would come on, and the thing didn't boot. Tried resetting, nothing worked.

I suspect it was a heat-related failure, even though it'd only run for about a half hour - I noticed when switching it off that the plastic casing was hot to the touch. There's little ventilation on the unit body.

My advice - avoid.

review by: date: 2008-07-09 rating:

Great idea but just too slow
Title says it all really - like every other NAS solution I've tried, it's just too slow to be practical.

review by: date: 2008-06-27 rating:

Worth the effort
Bought one of these second-hand but in mint-condition initially as a low-power, quiet RAID 1 network file/media server to hide in the loft.

Re-flashed it with Unslung but wanted more! So I went with Debian and now I have RAID 1 on two external 500GB USB drives, rTorrent thru simple folder access, MediaTomb for my PS3 and other media players, spin-down on the HDDs and the OS running on an old-ish 1GB USB stick that is hard-wired inside the unit. Other HW mods include doubling the CPU speed and auto-power up should the power fail.

To be honest, I've got this far with a lot of effort and pain (took 12 full re-installs of Debian before the RAID was successfully set up) and a lot of reading up and experimentation especially if you're a relatively newbie to Linux (like me) for tweaking scripts, recommended workarounds, using cunning partitioning and disabling logs to maximise HDD spin-down etc.

My conclusion - my setup uses around 26 watts - with spin-down it's probably less compared to the ~200W that my PC was taking when serving media files. Worth it if you can invest some time and effort to maximise the functionality and you want to be green.

review by: date: 2008-04-14 rating:

I'm sure it's wonderful, but...
I'm sure it's wonderful, but the unit I have just received has a faulty ethernet port. It appeared to happily register the existence of either USB flash-drives and hard-drives, but no-matter which - of my numerous - switches and routers it was plugged into the little ethernet "connection" LED (on both the Nslu2 and the switches) remained blank and the Nslu2 was totally unreachable. This is strange as the Nslu2 /should/ report hardware faults by beeping, but this unit believed everything to be fine, it just refused to acknowledge it was connected to a network.

I hope the replacement unit works because this is potentially a fun little little network device.

UPDATE:
Replacement Nslu2 arrived from Amazon less than 12 hours after I reported the original unit as faulty. Top work Amazon!

Plugged the new Nslu2 unit into the network, powered it up, ethernet LED blinked into life, and in under 2 minutes (from opening the packaging) I'm configuring the unit from the web-interface. What a wonderful bit of kit!

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