Why I buy this one ?
- Connects USB 1.1 or 2.0 hard drives and flash drives directly to your network
- Share music, video, or data files with managed access by user name or group
- Integrated file server--access your files from the Internet
- Built-in disk utilities--format, backup, and scandisk
- Connects directly to a 10/100 Ethernet network for throughput up to 200 Mbps

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What our customer's say!

"Not simple as promised", It is not compatible with windows at all. You will not be able to use the disk you are using with nsl pluged directly in a windows PC. Also, it is not compatible with windows vista.

"SKIP'S REVIEW", The devise was very easy to set up and configure on all computers in the network. Mapping the drives after configuration was simple also.

"Check out the features", Do not purchase this access point if the following apply:
1) You have external drives full of data you want to make available on your network. You must first reformat the drives to ext3 (a Linux format) which means you loose the data.
2) You have PC's running Vista on your network. The only reliable means of uploading data in Vista is as an ftp client and that is achingly slow.
3) You want to place frequently accessed files on the attached drives. Slooooow!

Other than these caveats the unit works well. If you run XP or older OS you will probably love it. If you run Vista you'll probably loathe it. I cannot speak to Mac or Linux as I have not tried these systems.

By the way customer support is excellent but this unit is not supported in Vista so you are on your own.

"Plug and Play NAS storage", I would give it five stars, but having to reformat your storage to get it to work really is a pain. I had to scramble to move the data around a few computers to get it to work, then the time it took to move it all back.

I will say once set up that I am extremely happy with the product, I have a 750GB drive and use multiple USB drives to move things around as well.

I use this with Apple products, Windows XP, as well as linux, so it's definitely something you should consider. The user administration is a little clunky, but you will catch on quickly.

User's can have their private storage areas as well as public storage. The NSLU2 is also extensively customizable from the linux community. I haven't had a lot of time to play with that feature.

"Nice home solution but a little bit slow.", It's a nice little thing for your home network but I feel it's a little bit slow. I guess it's a good back up solution but not a good daily basis kind of drive.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"very useful, compact", this product has been very useful to me. It has a small footprint, is very very expandable, linux-based, very low-power and quiet. I use it for all of my movies, music. It's for anyone with a small home network, needing to share media.

"Great Product", No match to its utility, price and convenience to setup. There was little problem of setting up automatic backup but then the as usual wonderful Tech support of Linksys made it easy. I was done initial setup in mins and then back up took me another 10 mins on phone with technical support people.
Recommended for all home users.


"Great Little Device", I got one of these units nearly a year ago, and it has been running beautifully ever since. I plugged two Seagate 500Gb USB external drives into the NSLU2, and everything came right up and ran, and it's still doing well, with no service, adjustment, or downtime. I am able to connect to the drives from all of the computers on my LAN, computers that use Win95, WinMe, Win2K, and Ubuntu Linux.

"BEWARE of "features"", I was looking (and still am) for a simple way to connect an external USB hard drive to my network at home.
I wanted to:
1) be able to connect it to a NAS controller-like device and be able to backup files from any wireless device on the home network.
Also (and this is the reason for my dissapointment)
2) I wanted to be able to take my external hard drive with me whenever necessary.

Well... the Linksys NSLU2 does 1, but will not allow 2 because it has to format the external drive to a format that is incompatible with Windows. Here is the quote from the online setup user guide: "Note: Hard Disk Drives used on the Network Storage Link are NOT compatible with any version of Windows. You cannot swap USB HDDs between Windows and the Network Storage Link."

Would have been nice if this "feature" was better explained upfront, rather than me spending the $50 on the NSLU2 and "chaining" my external/potrable drive to it.

Dissapointed. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

"What 100V - 250V adapter?", A nice little gadget, as long as you download the most recent firmware; although I was utterly disappointed with the error that Linksys put in their specs for this product. They stated that the supplied power adapter had a voltage range of 100V to 250V - utter rubbish. I only bought it to use for 240V in Europe and have had to go well out of my way to find it an alternative power source. Also there is no MacIntosh driver, however it is possible to configure the device through a web browser. They also fail to mention that the hard disc that is to be used with the device ought to be formatted by the device before use; download the latest firmware to get round this problem and it all 'sort of works okay'. Good luck.