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Review on Zyxel NAS326: Personal Cloud Storage [2-Bay] with Remote Access & Media Streaming – Disks Not Included by Brandon Wellard

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Damn good deal - works great for me as a home media cloud

Overall I'm VERY happy with this NAS. Setup wasn't painful and performance over Ethernet is great. Through Wi-Fi it hangs, but overall very well. The "findme" utility, as others have said, didn't work for me, but the direct link provided worked fine. The device detected that the hard drive was already formatted, so installing the hard drive was easy/quick. The system creates predefined directories for the comparison, which was a bit annoying at first. You *can* set up your own directory and put whatever you want in there. I just went with the predefined setup and mapped individual network drives to these directories and ended up liking it. One reviewer I read said it wasn't suitable for streaming movies/shows. That's exactly what I do and it works great. When sharing between Windows 10 computers and fast forwarding a movie, the video player froze. With this NAS, all video navigation works perfectly and almost instantly, and playback is excellent. I don't see anything else as necessary for home use.

Pros
  • Few competitors
Cons
  • Not sure