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

Only used it one day but wanted to share my experience for now. It arrived yesterday along with 2 x 3TB drives. I installed the drives without too much trouble, 4 screws per disk, and reseated them. I then took it downstairs and installed it on my network along with two other hard drives via a dual USB3 enclosure and portable USB stick. the disk I use for working papers. Once started, I had to install the software and no problems were encountered with the NAS. I did the initialization and left. It showed up on my network and I made folders for everyone in the house. No problems so far and I'm getting around 70MB/s on external drives and 110MB/s on internal drives. Great little NASEdit: This thing worked flawlessly for what I needed it for. I'm tired of lugging around all my USB sticks and such so this thing is a real lifesaver. This allows me to have 2 disk bays, then I have 2 USB3 disks connected to 2 other disks plus my portable disk to work with. Now I can access all of these drives over my network and do whatever I need to. Also amazing is the ability to easily connect to drives from anywhere in the world via VPN. Despite everything, it consumes 17W at full load and less than 4W in standby mode. Great little NAS. I can get an extra one so if that fails I just plug in a new one. Edit 2: I've had this for over a month now and haven't had a single problem with it. He is fast and responsive. I can easily move files in and out, along with external drives attached to it. I even saved my music for my Plex server. It translates flawlessly into the Plex. I really only have good things to say about it. I've never used the cloud feature as I don't want to allow third party software to establish an existence on my network and potentially expose access. I have a VPN on my network and use it. My media server acts as my VPN server so I can access it quickly. I can do all my paperwork remotely and have all my folders and the like waiting for me right there.