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I'm running NMH410 1TB with HP Laptop with Vista Home premium 32bit Netgear G router wireless, Firefox 3.5.7 mainly and also IE8. Just the one PC connected at the mo. looking to connect another 4 plus Wii..? + Sony 40w4500 TV and install a WD10EADS 1TB 2nd drive and RAID1
Looks good and sits well on the desk. Connected OK with Network and can be seen as a drive - so good as a NAS device.
Drive is a 1 TB WD EVVS..? can't look now as its running...
it is VERY slow at booting
It is VERY sluggish with I/O requests - transferring data
when it is powered off the fan still continues for what appears to be an indefinite time.
The "applications" are not very good though.
1. The inbuilt media player uses flash rather than a "hard coded" application so its slow, not like a web based "frames"? type application - maybe to try and protect it from being ripped? and the scroll windows within frames don't work when using a scroll mouse - so you have to click on the narrow scroll bar rather than just centre click and drag.when you do this the whole window scrolls and you loose the top icons that should really be frozen in place.
Anyway I find the whole interface "clunky" counter intuitive, slow and lacking in functionality and finesse.
2. The media player will not play iPod songs - yes I know (now) its well known, buy I expected the media player to be something that could be registered as an authorised device with iTunes.... not as it appears only to have a soft-button that allows iTunes to see the drive....iTunes would do that if you pointed it to the mapped drive anyway....
3. When I copy across, import or drag files to the drive they appear nicely on the Media player list - but it will not play them. The play bar sits there with 0.00 on the play counter and no music or progress. I can even add other songs to the play list - they are all the same nothing plays. All the file details appear correct - I can hit pause or next and previous buttons - but nothing plays. They all work fine with other windows apps, so I guess it may be a codec thing...?
4. The media importer seems to function - but it not using the windows Folders GUI interface its a file hierarchy arrangement - so again a bit lacking in finesse. In fact the whole suite of application seem to be written down to a budget rather than than properly specified, modernised and coded in a "solid" way - maybe just so they work with remote via web browsers...? They should be better done IMO with a separate remote access app. for those that need/want it.
5. You can not drag files to the media player window and have them then copy to your drive or play straight away.
6. Photos seems to be handled fine. They take a wile to appear but even when cable connected to the router. Lacks in ability to zoom though again programming restrictions so no right click means you can't see something you like and do anything with it.
I've still to try RAID, other PCs and connectivity to my TV - and thus my A/V amp and system - more on these another time.
Anyway got to go now - but in all its a reasonable NAS with a poor media server capability and a crippled suite of apps dictated to by the strategy of remote accessability.
I didn't pay full whack for it so I could still justify it as our NAS for backup with RAID and as a shared drive. But at full price as a media device it would be going back.

Not sure how - but the few songs I transferred over as a test are now working. It looks as though the media player app is slightly different, but can't see any version numbers. However, I did a firmware update and this might have done the job and taken a long time to impact on the files as they system was re-indexing. Or it could be a Java update as that has come up in the system tray and it wasn't there before............or none of the above....
Middle mouse button scrolling is also working !
So a bit more testing but it seems to be improving
Message Edited by AndyGB on 01-21-2010 12:05 PM
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