Comments on: Linksys NAS200 review

By: disposable

disposable — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:57:22 +0000

Just to make things clear – as far as I know, this unit uses Ext3 filesystem, which unlike NTFS is NOT proprietary. Ext3 is a standard open source filesystem of Linux. It is much more reliable than NTFS (safer journalling), has better indexing of large directories, is hard to fragment, etc…

Drives formatted as Ext3 can be read and written to in windows as well, you will need to install something like ext2fsd or ext2ifs (http://www.fs-driver.org/).

By: Benjamin Surkyn

Benjamin Surkyn — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:01:19 +0000

As far as I know, the NAS won’t write to NTFS, only FAT32 and its own filesystem.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:41:26 +0000

The NAS-200 can’t write only in USB drives formatted with NTFS? If I have a 3.5 internal hard disk formatted with NTFS, the NAS-200 won’t write too?

By: Peter Apperley

Peter Apperley — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:25:49 +0000

Thank you for your article. It’s very frustrating that nowhere in the NAS200 manual does it tell you that you can’t write to NTFS formatted USB drives. I went out and purchased a FreeAgent hard drive to back up my NAS, and it took me ages to work out that I had to reformat it to FAT32 before I could write to it via the NAS.

By: Erno Gilissen

Erno Gilissen — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:46:16 +0000

Hi,
I’m also using a NAS200, equipped with 2 Samsung HDDs 750G each. I don’t need 1Gbit speed; 85% of the stored data is written once and only serves as a central back-up. Furthermore, 95% of my entire home network clients have 100Mbit network hardware (>15 clients). Unlike many other cheap NAS, Linksys allows to switch off the fan: I don’t mind it’s noisy, but it must stop when I don’t use the equipment.

I’m working in the electronics industry and decided the NAS200 has a very bad disk cooling. I would not recommend to mount the 2nd harddisk unless you want to grill the drives. I stripped the NAS down and moved everything in a metal 2x 5.25″ disk case. If you want, I can send you photos how to open the case; maybe nice to publish on this site?