Maxtor Shared Storage 300Gb NAS (Network HDD) - £89.91

dr_shabzzz

seeing as this was a clearance item...we went into a store and picked up a couple for home...

here's the good bit...we asked for a discount seeing as few were buying a couple and that they were clearance...they accepeted!! got 10% further nocked off...got a 200gb for £60 and 300gb for £80...

worth asking!! you won't get anything if u don't ask :)

h4x3r

jandrews wrote:

Why do you have to grab 4....its people that by 4 that means its out of stock when you get there

Ive just got one and will install i t when I get back frmo New York

well i ned it therefor ill buy it! going now bbl

Niggy_2

has anyone figured out the 6 digit SKU stock number for this yet?

roadster1

roadster1 wrote:

300 gb out of stock at Leicester but they had the smaller 200gb version still.

I wanted the 300gb one

Phoned Loughborough branch, one 300gb in stock, reserved it and picked it up this morning :j :j

joshtbh

edited to cancel post

123immy

good find whirly. i'm picking up the last one from my local store tonight. i want to use it with the new buffalo linktheater I'm wondering whether this device has DLNA support, which is supposed to allow this to work like the 'linkstation' NAS drives. I guess I'll find out soon enough.

vishaljh

Hi 123immy,

This has a DLNA support if you upgrade it to the latest firmware from Maxtor site.

Cheers,
Vish

123immy

thanks vishaljh for that. i searched everywhere but found nothing conclusive. even the dlna.org site has only half the supported players, doesn't appear to be mentioned on the maxtor website either! now all i need is a cheap wireless media player and i'm sorted.

in the shortlist...

d-link dsm 320 - but not sure if this is DLNA compliant - i think it's 'plays for sure' but again that's different lol. these are about 80-90 quid used on ebay

buffalo linktheater - there are a couple of models, P4LWAG is the newer one which is DLNA compliant. The older [cheaper] one i'm not sure about.

any suggestions on the media players most appreciated. :-)

colinstevens

Picked the last 200GB one from Llandudno today!

Thanks to OP!

neildo

I too got a 300gb version.

I didn't realise before bringing home that you can add additional usb drives onto the back of it, increasing the storage available on your network.

It also shares USB based printers :-)

(sorry if both these had been mentioned previously in this thread)